I started my samba server with a samba.conf taken from a tutorial in this site and everything is working very well, but... I used [global] settings exactly as in the example and made my "netbios name = debian". Now I regret that and wish I had used a more explicit name. / How can I change the "netbios name" ? I edited samba.conf and changed that to "myownname" , but in the Windows clients the connection still appears as "debian".
Windows has mysterious ways ... (reason why I am moving to Linux). / I did restart samba and I did restart the windows client several times, but... / The Netbios "Debian" remained stubbornly under "Network" in the windows client. / Suddenly, when I started the windows machine this morning, the new name appeared there, as by miracle because I didn't do any new changes after all the previous windows restarts had no effect. May be it was a miracle !
