Bug 134917

Summary:	Cannot suppress samba "computer description"
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Lars Müller <lmuelle>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	info, samba-maintainers
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Stather 2005-11-22 15:48:47 UTC

By default samba uses "Samba 3.0.20b-3.1-SUSE" as a "server derscription".
Windows clients (which is IMHO the main reason for using samba) display that in brackets after the NetBIOS name, which is not consistent to other windows clients which don´t set that attribute (usually). Those SuSE computers just look strange when seen in the "network neighborhodd". So I suggest that this is off by default and can be switched on within YaST2.

Comment 1 Michael Stather 2006-01-06 18:09:32 UTC

Any news on this one?

Comment 2 Lars Müller 2006-03-15 12:57:39 UTC

You like to have it like this:

Name                                    Comments
hostname (Samba 3.0.21c-8-SUSE-CODE10)  Samba 3.0.21c-8-SUSE-CODE10

Right?

Comment 3 Michael Stather 2006-03-15 18:20:13 UTC

Yes, the samba version is appended to the computer name in windows.
It should be in a comment but not in the name.
The unix boy should look like a windows one in the network neighborhood IMHO.

Comment 4 Tristan Hoffmann 2009-03-20 15:41:24 UTC

No activity for years.
Please reopen if this is still a problem on a supported version of openSUSE
(10.3 or later)