[Samba] Name of the share in windows explorer

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jul 17 15:52:01 UTC 2019


On 17/07/2019 16:46, Edouard Guigné via samba wrote:
> Dear Samba Users,
>
> I set 2 samba shares :
> 1. with the name [groups]
> /pathtomyshare/groups
>
> 2. for each domain users [homes]
> /home
>
> In Windows, I can see with the windows explorer my shares :
> groups (\\myserver) (V:)
> mydomainuser (\\myserver\homes) (U:)
>
> Why for [groups] is only indicated \\myserver and for [homes] is 
> indicated \\myserver\homes ?
>
> Is there a way to change it ? I would only show \\myserver for the 
> both shares?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Edouard
>
>
You cannot use the same name for two shares.

I think you need to post your entire smb.conf, so we can try and sort 
your problem ;-)

Rowland





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