[Samba] NetBIOS Hostname

Rob Shinn rob.shinn at gmail.com
Fri May 30 18:10:47 GMT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:54 PM, William W. Hammond <support at mbdsoft.com>
wrote:

> I was setting up Samba on an OpenSuSE 10.3 i386 computer.
>
> At the last minute I decided to enter a NetBIOS Hostname, big mistake.


While this may be a question better suited to the OpenSUSE list than this
one, you entered a NetBIOS hostname where?  In YaST?

>
> A message popped up warning me that entering a NetBIOS Hostname would
> create a new UID and Clients may no longer be able to connect.
> The Message was correct....


What clients are no longer be able to connect? Samba clients?  Or some other
clients?


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