samba - Nov 2005 - Samba volume name to share

Hi all

I am using samba 3 and have created shares , for which i have give volume
name , but that volume name doesn't appear at windows systems .. it still
appears as
"user on <netbiosname of samba server>"
I have given the following declaration of my share

I want to hide the netbios name of sambaserver for the users, so i want to
give volume,
but volume doesn't appear in windows xp clients

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = no
browseable = no
volume=testvolume

Regards
Niranjan

> systems .. it still appears as
> "user on <netbiosname of samba server>"
It's actually appearing as "share on <netbios name>", but in
this case
the share name is the same as the username, because it's the special
home directory share.
> I want to hide the netbios name of sambaserver for the users
> [homes]
> volume=testvolume
The volume= option is for the volume label, you'll only see this if you
map a network drive and right-click on the drive itself and choose
'Properties'.

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to change the name of the home
directory share, unless you can do a weird custom share like this:

[%u]
path=/home/%u

But I'm sure there are plenty of security risks with that, assuming it
even works.  Even if you do make it work, you'll only change the 'My
Computer' label to "somethingelse on <netbios name>".  I
don't think
it's possible to hide the NetBIOS name altogether, however if you give
the server a comment/description then you can change it to "share on
comment (netbios name)" which is probably the closest you can get.

Cheers,
Adam.