renaming my linux box

[Yang Xiao]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xentek dev [mailto:linux at xentek.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:58 PM
> To: Fedora Mailing LIst
> Subject: renaming my linux box
> 
> 
> how does one set the name for the linux machine when being 
> browsed by a windows machine?
> 
> samba is up and running, and i can access the shares on the 
> linux box from my WinXP client, but it's named 'localhost'... 
> I'd like to change it to something more descriptive.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
Hi,
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and modify the line that says
server string = My Big Fat Fedora Box

Restart samba.

Yang