[Samba] ugly name when mapping drives to windows

[Clas Mayer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gienger" <pgienger at ae-solutions.com>
To: "'Clas Mayer'" <clas at mayer.se>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] ugly name when mapping drives to windows


>> In windows "this computer" and in explorer the mapping shows
>> with the long name
>>
>> "sharedfolder at Samba file and print server (server) (X:)"
>>
>> Is there a way to remove aleast the
>>
>> "Samba file and print server" part of the name.
>>
>> I have tryed in netbios name =  something and server string =
>> something
>>
>> With no result
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks in advance
>
> Windows remembers this comment field regardless of what the server is
> actually called now, at least in certain versions.  If you do a registry
> search for that string on the workstation you will find a section that 
> lists
> the comment.  Also, try looking in your nethood directory, one of these 
> two
> locations will have it.  You simply clear out references to the old long
> name.
>
> I used to have this myself where a previous admin had called our server
> 'Samba Mania' and I couldn't clear it until I brought in a new machine 
> that
> had never known about 'Samba Mania' and they referred to the machine as 
> the
> proper name.  I went looking and dug up the location that had it.  Sorry I
> can't be exact, those machines have all been long gone so I can't tell you
> exactly where it is.
>

Thanks Paul!
I found it at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions

/Clas