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I am trying to configure a new samba (3.6.9-151.el6) fileserver on CentOs 6.4

The browsing works, I can see the other Computers on the network using smbtree -N The server shows up in the list and is accessible under its dns/host name (FOO), which is different from its netbios name (BAR).

I want to be able to switch the netbios name if the fileserver fails, to something like BAR-BAD. And give the backup server the name BAR. This way I wouldn't need to reconfigure the windows clients' mapped drives.

[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
netbios name = BAR
local master = yes
workgroup = WORKGROUP 
os level = 99
encrypt passwords = yes
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
guest ok = yes
wins proxy = no
dns proxy = no

When I do a nmblookup BAR from the server itself I get a failure on the netbios name BAR. It seems that the netbios name setting in smb.conf is being ignored. I have tried many combinations of settings of wins/ master browser / local browser ... to no avail.

Any clues as to what might be going on would be greatly appreciated.

Loopo
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  • I am having the same problem; CentOS 6.4, the servers hostname ("gateway") is showing on the Windows machine instead of the configured netbios name ("Server") – fukawi2 May 10 '13 at 08:03

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