samba - Dec 2001 - NetBIOS Aliasing

Geoff Silver wrote:
> I ran across an "interesting" situation today, and haven't
been able to
> find anything on the web to help.  Samba supports NetBIOS aliases, but is
> it possible to tie the aliased NetBIOS name to a specific smb.conf file
> (or seperate directories?), similar to Apache's VirtualHost directive?
	Sure: see the example in
	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html
> We're running two environments right now (development and testing), and
> would like to have seperate NetBIOS names, but (for the time being) keep
> them on the same server.  However, any folders available on one
"server"
> are available on the other.  In the future, we will (probably) split the
> Samba servers to different locations, which is why it would be convenient
> to split this to different "environments".
	That's part of what I do at work.

--dave
-- 
David Collier-Brown,           | Always do right. This will gratify 
Americas Customer Engineering, | some people and astonish the rest.
SunPS Integration Services.    |                      -- Mark Twain
(905) 415-2849                 | davecb@canada.sun.com

I'm doing this now with msdfs and netbios aliasing. WAY Cool. Total
location abstraction. I'm in the process of writing up a doc about it.
I'll be on vacation in NM USA until tuesday, but I'll try to get back
with you then. I can send you all of my configs to get you going then.
cheers,
-Christopher
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Collier-Brown [mailto:davecb@canada.sun.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:29 AM
> To: Geoff Silver
> Cc: samba@samba.org
> Subject: Re: NetBIOS Aliasing
> 
> 
> Geoff Silver wrote:
> > I ran across an "interesting" situation today, and
haven't
> been able to
> > find anything on the web to help.  Samba supports NetBIOS 
> aliases, but is
> > it possible to tie the aliased NetBIOS name to a specific 
> smb.conf file
> > (or seperate directories?), similar to Apache's VirtualHost 
> directive?
> 
> 	Sure: see the example in
> 	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html
> 
> > We're running two environments right now (development and 
> testing), and
> > would like to have seperate NetBIOS names, but (for the 
> time being) keep
> > them on the same server.  However, any folders available on 
> one "server"
> > are available on the other.  In the future, we will 
> (probably) split the
> > Samba servers to different locations, which is why it would 
> be convenient
> > to split this to different "environments".
> 
> 	That's part of what I do at work.
> 
> --dave
> -- 
> David Collier-Brown,           | Always do right. This will gratify 
> Americas Customer Engineering, | some people and astonish the rest.
> SunPS Integration Services.    |                      -- Mark Twain
> (905) 415-2849                 | davecb@canada.sun.com
> 
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