GetComputerName() question

[Martin Wilck]

Am Mit, 2002-10-30 um 20.25 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:

> Because users are not going to edit the registry if their Unix
> hostname changes so it will always be wrong. Now if the problem is the
> FQDN then it should be trivial to truncate it to just the hostname.

Sorry, how many machines are out there that change their host name on a
regular basis, so that the registry name would "always" be wrong ? 

The way Samba does this is IMO reasonable:
"netbios name (G) - This sets the NetBIOS name by which a Samba server
is known. By default it is the same  as  the first  component  of  the
host's DNS name."

I'd propose: If the registry contains an explicit ComputerName entry,
use it as Netbios name; otherwise, use the Unix hostname. This would
affect only the users that enter a Netbios name in their registry, and
thus not those with changing host names that you're worried about.

Martin

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