What Does Windows Call My Machine?

What Does Windows Call My Machine?

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
Ok. I'm to the point where I can mount the hard drives of the Windows 
machines in our office using Samba. I even burned a CD of a directory 
containing files for all the books we have produced. (200 Megabytes). The 
one problem remaining is that the Windows machines can't find my Windows 
partition, or my machine, for that matter. I think I have to find out what 
they call my machine and its shares. But smbclient isn't much help. I 
tried guessing, but apparently unsuccessfully.
Any help would be appreciated.
John


-- 
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703

Re: What Does Windows Call My Machine?

[Mike Gorse]

John,

This is determined by the "netbios name" in the [global] section of your
smb.conf file.

There is a long and detailed man page for smb.conf; I would suggest
reading it over.

-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> Ok. I'm to the point where I can mount the hard drives of the Windows
> machines in our office using Samba. I even burned a CD of a directory
> containing files for all the books we have produced. (200 Megabytes). The
> one problem remaining is that the Windows machines can't find my Windows
> partition, or my machine, for that matter. I think I have to find out what
> they call my machine and its shares. But smbclient isn't much help. I
> tried guessing, but apparently unsuccessfully.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> John
>

Re: What Does Windows Call My Machine?

[David Poehlman]

possibly my computer?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: What Does Windows Call My Machine?


Hello,
Ok. I'm to the point where I can mount the hard drives of the Windows
machines in our office using Samba. I even burned a CD of a directory
containing files for all the books we have produced. (200 Megabytes).
The
one problem remaining is that the Windows machines can't find my Windows
partition, or my machine, for that matter. I think I have to find out
what
they call my machine and its shares. But smbclient isn't much help. I
tried guessing, but apparently unsuccessfully.
Any help would be appreciated.
John


--
Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703




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