>>> With the obsolescence of NetBIOS, maybe it's time, for the sake
of
>>> clarity and precision, to introduce a synonym like "short host
>>> name" to the
>> "netbios
>>> name" parameter, which would eventually be phased out in the
future.
>>
>>> As it is now, the "netbios name" parameter is the only
way to refer
>>> to the short form of the host name, which doesn't seem to be
very
>>> accurate nowadays...
>>
>>> Lots of other Samba parameters have synonyms, so why not this one?
>>
>> In the same manner, for the sake of consistency, maybe the
"workgroup"
>> parameter could have a "domain name" synonym.
> But then it really should be 'NetBIOS domain name' or
'pre-windows 2000
> domain name.
I suppose you are right. Thank you for your clarifications.