When I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 on my server, at some point, I gave the server a description. Whenever I connect to any of the shares on the server, this description appears. For example, on one Windows workstation, there is a share which appears in Windows Explorer as “Midwest on ‘Cincinnati Corporate ISS Server (ISS0042)’ (T:)”.
For the life of me, I cannot find where this description, “Cincinnati Corporate ISS Server”, is stored. I’ve search through /etc, and poked around ad nauseum in YAST, but I am missing it. Where is this description stored? What is the YAST function to change it?
Hi
Is this machine running samba, if so check the config. Seems strange to
me you would call a linux machine ISS which is windows speak… sure
it’s not picking up a netbios name from a real ISS server?
you could use wireshark to see the netbios traffic from your machine and determine if you are providing that description or if is cached in the ‘machine account’ on a ‘domain controller’ …
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> When I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 on my server, at some point, I gave the
> server a description. Whenever I connect to any of the shares on the
> server, this description appears. For example, on one Windows
> workstation, there is a share which appears in Windows Explorer as
> “Midwest on ‘Cincinnati Corporate ISS Server (ISS0042)’ (T:)”.
>
> For the life of me, I cannot find where this description, “Cincinnati
> Corporate ISS Server”, is stored. I’ve search through /etc, and poked
> around ad nauseum in YAST, but I am missing it. Where is this
> description stored? What is the YAST function to change it?
>
nwe2023;
“Midwest” should be the share name. “Cincinnati Corporate ISS Server
(ISS0042)” should be the server string. The Server string is controlled by
the parameter:
server string
located in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf
If you do not see “server string” in the global section
of /etc/samba/smb.conf, then run:
testparm -v
This will give you all the parameter values (those you set and default values)
in your smb.conf. You will then be able to see the current server string.
Unfortunately Windows caches this server string. The current default on my
system is “server string = Samba 3.4.8” Yet I have XP clients that still
show “Samba 3.0.26a” which is the server string from late 2007. If I looked
around there may be clients showing even older server strings.
–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
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> Unfortunately Windows caches this server string. The current default on my
> system is “server string = Samba 3.4.8” Yet I have XP clients that still
> show “Samba 3.0.26a” which is the server string from late 2007. If I
looked
> around there may be clients showing even older server strings.
>
nwe2023;
Windows XP has this information in your “Documents and
Settings<username>\NetHood” It may be somewhere else as well.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
So it’s only on specific machine you see this, or all? I