Ok, I hope I described this as well as I can.
I have a clean install of 10.5 Server on a new Intel XServe (not the newest versions, but late 2006 model). We unfortunately bought just before the new models came out.
I configured the hostname.local to be the same as the FQDN. So if the server’s name is bob and the domain was example.com. I have a hostname of bob.local and bob.example.com.
However, the previous server had a different .local name of Bob File Server. In other words when people connected to it, it would show them connecting to Bob File Server. But when they connected they used bob.example.com (as I said, it just showed up as Bobfileserver). Now from what I can tell that is because in System Preferences under the sharing pane, it was named Bob File Server. The DNS of the old server had it named as bob.example.com, etc.
Knowing that having names that are different are typically bad, I just set this one up to have only bob as the name.
The question is this. Is there a way to change the server so that when people connect it says Bob File Server instead of just bob? That part of me wants to just change the name in the Sharing pane of System Preferences, but I want to be certain before I do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated. That means not only giving a rough idea of what changing the name in System Preferences does, as well as what is the best way to do what the users want without harming the server.
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