Installation manual

Configuring a Global Server
Adding a Global Server
CLI Storage-Management Guide 10-7
Setting the NetBIOS Name (optional, CIFS)
This section only applies to virtual servers that support CIFS storage.
The virtual server’s NetBIOS name is the server name that appears in Windows
network browsers. This appears in the “Server Name” column when you issue a
Windows net view command. For example:
U:\>net view
Server Name Remark
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\\PERSONNEL
\\ARCHIVE1 A full tree of 5-year-old records
The above net view displays two CIFS servers, PERSONNEL and ARCHIVE1.
The default NetBIOS name for the virtual server is the first component of the global
server’s FQDN; for example, “FS” for the global server at “fs.nt.org.” If that
component is longer than 15 bytes, only the first 15 bytes are used.
Use the optional
wins-name command to reset the name:
wins-name netbios-name
where netbios-name (1-15 bytes) is the NetBIOS name to be advertised to the
WINS server. The first character must be a letter, and the remaining characters
can be letters, numbers, or underscores (_). If you are using Latin characters
(including ASCII), each character is one byte, so the name can be up to 15
characters. Each character may be more than one byte for non-Latin characters,
limiting you to a smaller number of characters.
For example, this command sequence resets the NetBIOS name to “INSURANCE”
for the virtual server at 192.168.25.14:
bstnA6k(gbl)# global server fs.nt.org
bstnA6k(gbl-gs[fs.nt.org])# virtual server bstnA6k 192.168.25.14 255.255.255.0 vlan 25
bstnA6k(gbl-gs-vs[fs.nt.org~192.168.25.14])# wins-name INSURANCE
bstnA6k(gbl-gs-vs[fs.nt.org~192.168.25.14])# ...