Setting up my netbios name in Samba

**dan@george** · 09-21-2004

I'm trying to set up a samba server on my machine that will be accessible to everyone at my school. I've managed to get it so that people can connect to my share by specifying my IP address, but not by my netbios name (thepenguin). How can I broadcast this name so that people can just type that?

Here's the global section of my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:

Code:

&#91;global&#93;
   workgroup = WESLEYAN
   server string = Slackware Linux
   security = share
   hosts allow = 10. 127. 129.133.
   load printers = no
   log file = /var/log/samba.log
   max log size = 3000
   SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
   dns proxy = no
   netbios name = thepenguin

Anybody see anything obviously wrong?

EDIT: I just realized that I should have posted this in the Servers forum. Oops. You can move it if you'd like, Mods.

**sarumont** · 09-21-2004

***Moved to Servers***

The obvious: did you restart samba after changing that setting in your config?

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