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In additional, I have to say :<br />
You can adjust netbios name in smb.conf by this:<br />
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workgroup = SERVERS<br />
netbios name = PRINTER<br />
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In additional, I have to say :
You can adjust netbios name in smb.conf by this:

workgroup = SERVERS
netbios name = PRINTER




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Well right, but &quot;PRINTER&quot; as a netbios name can't be assigned to any other host in the netbios namespace.
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Well right, but "PRINTER" as a netbios name can't be assigned to any other host in the netbios namespace.

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Is &quot;PRINTER&quot; reserved word ?
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I need to have an existing linux ( RedHat 6.1 ) machine running Samba take on the printserver functions of an NT 4.0 machine which is being removed. To save all the users having to change their printer information I would like the linux machine to have the name of the NT box as an alias, it's existing name is already used for some printserver functions.<br />
how do I do this ?
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I need to have an existing linux ( RedHat 6.1 ) machine running Samba take on the printserver functions of an NT 4.0 machine which is being removed. To save all the users having to change their printer information I would like the linux machine to have the name of the NT box as an alias, it's existing name is already used for some printserver functions.
how do I do this ?

Machine name alias with Samba

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.