Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is the string that appears in browser lists restricted to being a single string without spaces, or can you include spaces ? I have samba v1.9.15p8 running on a SGI O2 system, and I'm accessing its filesystems from a W95 PC. I started off with the following line in my /etc/init.d/samba script NMBD_OPTS="-C11th Floor SGI O2" which results in only 11th appearing as the comment in the "Network Neighbourhood" window in W95. If I change the above line to NMBD_OPTS='-C"11th Floor SGI O2"' all I get is "11th as the comment. Am I doing something stupid or am I missing something here ? Geoff Sokoll
Use the "server string" parameter in smb.conf. Probably you'll have to upgrade to 1.9.17 to use this parm. E.- Geoff Sokoll <gdsokoll@wbmpl.com.au> wrote: : Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is the string that appears in browser lists restricted to being a single string without spaces, or can you include spaces ? : I have samba v1.9.15p8 running on a SGI O2 system, and I'm accessing its filesystems from a W95 PC. : I started off with the following line in my /etc/init.d/samba script : NMBD_OPTS="-C11th Floor SGI O2" : which results in only 11th appearing as the comment in the "Network Neighbourhood" window in W95. If I change the above line to : NMBD_OPTS='-C"11th Floor SGI O2"' : all I get is "11th as the comment. Am I doing something stupid or am I missing something here ? : Geoff Sokoll -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Geoff Sokoll wrote:> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is the string that appears in browser lists restricted to being a single string without spaces, or can you include spaces ? > > I have samba v1.9.15p8 running on a SGI O2 system, and I'm accessing its filesystems from a W95 PC. > > I started off with the following line in my /etc/init.d/samba script > NMBD_OPTS="-C11th Floor SGI O2" > which results in only 11th appearing as the comment in the "Network Neighbourhood" window in W95. If I change the above line to > NMBD_OPTS='-C"11th Floor SGI O2"'i believe that this should be NMBD_OPTS='-C\"11th Floor SGI O2\"' luke <a href="mailto:lkcl@switchboard.net" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a> <a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba Consultancy and Support </a>
Luke et al,
Thanks for the responses but i'm afraid it still don't quite work - I
now see \"11th instead of just "11th. Could this be a quirk in W95 ?
BTW, if i run ps -ef | grep nmbd i see
.....samba/nmbd -C\"11th Floor SGI O2\" -D
but under my previous arrangement (with NMBD_OPTS='-C"11th Floor SGI
O2"') i get
.....samba/nmbd -C"11th Floor SGI O2" -D
which seems more reasonable.
Unless anyone else has some more ideas, I think I'll be reverting to using
underscores instead of spaces.
ta,
Geoff Sokoll
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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton[SMTP:lkcl@switchboard.net]
Sent: Thursday, 27 November 1997 2:21
To: Geoff Sokoll
Cc: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Server string in Network Neighbourhood
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Geoff Sokoll wrote:
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is the string that appears in
browser lists restricted to being a single string without spaces, or can you
include spaces ?
>
> I have samba v1.9.15p8 running on a SGI O2 system, and I'm accessing
its filesystems from a W95 PC.
>
> I started off with the following line in my /etc/init.d/samba script
> NMBD_OPTS="-C11th Floor SGI O2"
> which results in only 11th appearing as the comment in the "Network
Neighbourhood" window in W95. If I change the above line to
> NMBD_OPTS='-C"11th Floor SGI O2"'
i believe that this should be NMBD_OPTS='-C\"11th Floor SGI
O2\"'
luke