Hi all,

This could very well be a stupid question, But i cannot figure it out..

I use RH9 / Samba as PDC. This works fine, and all seems to work great.
However, What really annoys me, is the name of the share in windows XP:

All my shares are like this:

sharename on 'Samba PDC running 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix (servername)'

I changed the server string to its Server name, but it keeps displaying this entire (long) String...

I prefer something like: sharename on 'ServerName'

How to change this? Or is it something I need to change in XP?

Thanx for replying!

Satriani.....

come on guys,

this is really stressing me out... I can't seem to find anything about this... And the setings in my smb.conf seems to be ok... Im really stuck here...
Please shed some light on this???

You will need to search the registry for the string called "'Samba PDC running 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix (servername)." I think that it is in HKCU\Network\Persistent or something like that. I can't remember it off hand. I think that this happens when drives are mapped and restored on logon. If you map a drive manually, don't click the restore on logon option. If you map from a logon script or from a command prompt, map your drives by doing something like this:

net use H: \\Server\Homes /persistent:no /y

The 2nd form is especially useful in that the H drive is not kept as a disconnected drive if you decide not to use it in your logon script anymore.

Hope this helps.

I removed the entries entirely, and logged of / logged on again.

Now the names are as I wanted them... I never thought of that... I was messing my smb.conf for this...

It works...

Thank you!