[Samba] NetBIOS Hostname

[William W. Hammond]

At 11:10 AM 5/30/2008, Rob Shinn wrote:

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

Since it was a SAMBA Issue I thought this would be the best place, 
but if you think the OpenSuSE Forum is a better option I'll move the 
thread there.
and, yes, it was through 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?

Sorry, not a complete description of the problem.  It was the Windows 
XP Clients that could no longer authenticate
to a share or even the "Workgroup" Computer.

What I needed to know was how to undue that option, or how to set up 
the Windows Client to use the NetBIOS name.

I was under a time constraint, small system so at the time it was 
easier just to reinstall the O/S (now working) and learn
about this later...




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