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From: "Paul Gienger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Clas Mayer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
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
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