How to find/change machine name

[Teo Fonrouge]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:24:48 am Bob Latham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As predicted I'm back with another unbelievably trivial question but I
> cannot find an answer. I am trying to get SAMBA shares working and failing
> miserably and I wanted to check the server name but having looked in every
> corner of the desktop and searched the help files I can find no clue as to
> how to find it or better yet change it.

You can change the name of the samba server in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, 
tag 'netbios name' section 'global':

............

[global]

   netbios name YOURDESIREDSERVERNAME

............

hth


best regards

Teo Fonrouge