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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - Hardware Independent > Andrew Tridgell: Samba Forum

Reconciling SMB-Linux share names with Windows

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mdutch (IS/IT--Management)
20 Jan 11 17:53
How do I "fix" the long drive names displayed in local workstations (WinXP) "My Computer", so they agree with the data in my smb.conf file and Linux "smbclient -L" displays?

Problem:
I'm running XP workstations under a SMB 3.4.0 domain server called JAM.  Shares seem to be operating smoothly, but the "drive naming" under WinXP clients is different.  Look at the samba shares from the server...

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root@jam:~/samba# smbclient -L smb
Domain=[JAM] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0]
 Sharename       Type      Comment
 ---------       ----      -------
 netlogon        Disk      Network Logon Service
 app             Disk      app samba share
Yet the info displayed in WinXP My Computer is different:

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NAME                                                   COMMENT
 app on 'jam server (Samba, Ubuntu) (smb)' (I:)
 netlogon on 'jam server (Samba, Ubuntu) (smb)' (N:)
It looks to me like the names are getting generated by the old default "server string" variable from orig.smb.conf:

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server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
But in /etc/samba/smb.conf I have reset that string to

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server string = "hello"
...which displays correctly under smbclient -L

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  Server               Comment
  ---------            -------
  SMB                  hello
Why am I getting share-names under XP derived from a "server string" syntax that's not even in my smb.conf file?  I've grep'd "(Samba, Ubuntu)" and it doesn't appear in /etc/smb.conf or any samba configuration file I can find (other than un-used original versions).

I'm stumped!
mdutch (IS/IT--Management)
21 Jan 11 16:58
Okay, today I see my drive names are changed.  After some experimenting, in the windows Registry, I found this key:

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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions
containing a list of machine names.  When I reset the name of my SAMBA server to null, the new string "hello" that I configured in smb.conf propagated to the drive names in My Computer.

So is this a winbind problem?  
Is there some way to "force" the names to propagate faster?
Do I need to restart winbind along with /etc/initi.d/samba?
If so, before or after?
smah (MIS)
24 Jan 11 12:43
I think it's a Windows issue.  It might refresh if you delete the drive mapping and add it again with the net use command.
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