\nA customer wanted to know why Explorer showed one of their servers\nin the folder list the normal way:\n<\/p>\n
\n⊞ servername\n<\/p>\n
\nbut another server showed up “where the server name is parentheses\nand the node name is in front.”\n<\/p>\n
\n⊞ nodename (servername)\n<\/p>\n
\n“Where is Explorer getting that information,\nand why are the two servers showing up in different ways?”\n<\/p>\n
\nIt’s all in the server comment.\n<\/p>\n
\nFrom the command line, you can view the server comment by\ntyping\n \nYou can set the comment with the command line\n<\/p>\n \nIf a server has a comment,\nthen the comment is shown to the user on the expectation that the\ncomment is something that is more meaningful to the user than some\ncryptic server name.\nMicrosoft’s own server names are hyper-cryptic, like\nTK5EX14MBXW603.\nOf course if you talk to a support technician,\nthey’ll tell you that the name is clear as day.\n“The TK means that the server is physically in our Tukwila data center.\nThe 5 means that…” (I never manage to stay awake long enough to\nlearn what the 5 stands for.)\n<\/p>\n \nI guess this created more confusion than clarification,\nbecause the comment-name-followed-by-parenthesized-server-name\nconvention appears no longer to be in use starting in Windows Vista.\n<\/p>\n \nCommunications breakdown<\/b>:\nWhen we provided this information back to the customer,\nthe customer liaison simply replied back,\n“Thanks, we figured that out on our own.”\n<\/p>\n \nThat was not a very clear reply.\nIs the customer liaison saying,\n“That’s the information we were looking for, thanks.\nWe managed to figure that out on our own in the meantime.”\nOr maybe the customer liaison was trying to say\n“Thanks for the information,\nbut we already knew that.\nWe were looking for something else.”\n<\/p>\n \nI asked the customer liaison whether they needed any more\ninformation from us,\nand there was no reply.\nI guess that’s passive-aggressive way of saying, “No.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A customer wanted to know why Explorer showed one of their servers in the folder list the normal way: ⊞ servername but another server showed up “where the server name is parentheses and the node name is in front.” ⊞ nodename (servername) “Where is Explorer getting that information, and why are the two servers showing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" A customer wanted to know why Explorer showed one of their servers in the folder list the normal way: ⊞ servername but another server showed up “where the server name is parentheses and the node name is in front.” ⊞ nodename (servername) “Where is Explorer getting that information, and why are the two servers showing […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}net view \\\\servername<\/code>.\nFor example,\n<\/p>\n\nShared resources at \\\\servername\nPrinter server next to the third floor bathroom<\/u>\nShare name Type Used as Comment\n----------------------------------\n...\n<\/pre>\n
\nnet config server \/srvcomment:\"Printer server next to the third floor bathroom\"\n<\/pre>\n