I've been trying to get my samba server (samba 1.19.17 on HP-UX 9.05 ) to behave differently depending on how the server is called using %L in the samba configuration file i.e include = /etc/testfile.%L and setting up an aliase in my nameserver for my machine e.g Original entry is fred IN A 129.96.**.** (** not really what I've typed in of course) and I've added fred_smb IN CNAME fred.**.**.** The objective being twofold, one to let the user see a different directory when connecting to the different name and two (if possible) to have the global server settings different depending on what name is used to connect to the server! But I've encountered several problems: 1> It doesn't work at all in the [global] section %L is replaced with BLANK !!! 2> It only works when using SMBclient in the rest i.e if I do a smbclient \\\\fred_smb\\whatever then %L is replaced with fred_smb (but not in the global section) BUT from any NT 4.0 machine connecting to \\fred_smb\whatever ends up being just \\fred\whatever All very confusing! Any help much appreciated (copies of working configuration files even more appreciated)