Feature changed by: Malvern Star (Solaris444) Feature #308598, revision 2 Title: Samba Description Field openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Malvern Star (solaris444) Description: The Samba Server YaST UI should allow users to edit the description - field that is - visible to the network for each machine. + field that is visible to the network for each machine. The Samba Server configuration component in YaST allows users to set - shares, - workgroup, netbios identifier and WINS server for the machine, however it does - not allow the user to set the description field. The is somewhat - inconvenient - as the default description is always the Samba version string, meaning - that - Windows machines (which display the description string FIRST when viewing the - network) will group all Linux machines on the network together. It - would be - helpful to be able to set this field without enabling swat or editing - the Samba - config file. + shares, workgroup, netbios identifier and WINS server for the machine, + however it does not allow the user to set the description field. The is + somewhat inconvenient as the default description is always the Samba + version string, meaning that Windows machines (which display the + description string FIRST when viewing the network) will group all Linux + machines on the network together. It would be helpful to be able to set + this field without enabling swat or editing the Samba config file. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308598