tom's blog » netbios name http://tom.knaupp.com free software, security and a bunch of my strange thoughts Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:13:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Samba Server not accessible via hostname? http://tom.knaupp.com/2008/05/06/samba-server-not-accessible-via-hostname/ http://tom.knaupp.com/2008/05/06/samba-server-not-accessible-via-hostname/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 19:51:01 +0000 tom http://tom.knaupp.com/?p=88 If you cannot connect to your samba server or share using the name BUT when using the ip address, this might help:

The netbios name has to be set manually.
For this purpose edit the global section in [/etc/samba/] smb.conf

netbios name = SERVERNAME
server string = Server Description

This one worked for me on a openSUSE 10.2 sytem with a samba 3.0.x release.

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