samba - Nov 2005 - Clarification: Can Windows 'Network Drive' name be changed ?

This morning I placed a post on this mailing list as follows:
 
 
In Windows Explorer, 'Network Drives' section, the Samba share I've
set
up is described as:

share on 'Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' (K:)

Is there any way of configuring Samba to display something other than
"Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)" as the Network Drive
description, for example:

share on 'Our Samba Server' (K:) 
I've had a look through man smb.conf but cannot find anything.

 
Thank you to those who replied. You all mentioned "server string". A
couple of you went a little further and accused me of not "reading the
xxxxxxx manual". Thank you for the reminder but I am well aware of the
protocol for using bulletin boards, forums, mailing lists, etc. In fact
I had already read the online Samba guide, and two sets of man pages,
and I had already seen and tried "server string" without success.
 
It is also protocol to not be offensive on mailing lists, so perhaps
you could refrain from that in the future.
 
My post used the specific words "Network Drive name" for a good
reason.
If in Windows XP, you open up Network Places, there are normally four
columns: "Name", "Comments", "Computer" and
"Network Location". I can
change the content of the "Computer" column by using "server
string" in
smb.conf, but I actually wanted to be able to change the string 'Samba
3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' that appears in the
"Name"
column.
 
To clarify, my question was whether this was changeable from the server
configuration.
 
Thank you.
 
Gary Roussak
Senior Software Developer
Tyrrell Systems Limited
 
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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:42 +0000, Gary Roussak wrote:
> This morning I placed a post on this mailing list as follows:
>  
> 
> In Windows Explorer, 'Network Drives' section, the Samba share
I've set
> up is described as:
> 
> share on 'Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' (K:)
> 
> Is there any way of configuring Samba to display something other than
> "Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)" as the Network
Drive
> description, for example:
> 
> share on 'Our Samba Server' (K:) 
> I've had a look through man smb.conf but cannot find anything.
> 
>  
> Thank you to those who replied. You all mentioned "server
string". A
> couple of you went a little further and accused me of not "reading the
> xxxxxxx manual". Thank you for the reminder but I am well aware of the
> protocol for using bulletin boards, forums, mailing lists, etc. In fact
> I had already read the online Samba guide, and two sets of man pages,
> and I had already seen and tried "server string" without success.
>  
> It is also protocol to not be offensive on mailing lists, so perhaps
> you could refrain from that in the future.
>  
> My post used the specific words "Network Drive name" for a good
reason.
> If in Windows XP, you open up Network Places, there are normally four
> columns: "Name", "Comments", "Computer" and
"Network Location". I can
> change the content of the "Computer" column by using "server
string" in
> smb.conf, but I actually wanted to be able to change the string 'Samba
> 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' that appears in the
"Name"
> column.
>  
> To clarify, my question was whether this was changeable from the server
> configuration.
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use 'comment' in each share...

[Linux stuff]
        comment = Linux Updates
        writeable = yes
        create mode = 775
        path = /home/Linux
        directory mode = 775

Craig


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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 15:03 +0000, Gary Roussak wrote:
> I'm afraid not Craig. I already had a comment ("share") for
this
> stanza. I know that if I change the comment, I can certainly change
> the "share" bit of the name to something else, but the
"Samba <version
> number>" bit after the word "on" doesn't go away.
>  
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let's keep this on list

My setup (CentOS 4 - an RHEL clone) puts

'comment' on 'server string' in the name field on my WinXP
system.

If your experience is different, then the only things that would seem to
account for this could be different compiling options employed by SuSE
or different methodology in the samba versions (I'm some version of
3.0.10).

Of course you can grep the source code for the offending 'string'

Craig


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Hi Gary,
> Thank you to those who replied. You all mentioned "server
string". A
> couple of you went a little further and accused me of not "reading the
> xxxxxxx manual". Thank you for the reminder but I am well aware of the
> protocol for using bulletin boards, forums, mailing lists, etc. In
> fact I had already read the online Samba guide, and two sets of man
> pages, and I had already seen and tried "server string" without
> success. 
I think the problem was you didn't actually say in your original post
that you'd done all this, so everyone just assumed you hadn't read the
manual.  It might be a good idea in future to mention a few of the
things you've tried, as it gives everyone the impression that you've
actually gone to the effort of trying to figure it out yourself.  If
you don't say this it can look like you're too lazy to read the
manual, which is what makes everyone annoyed.

Cheers,
Adam.