server name in mapped drive display

I set up a new win server 2008 r2 file server, made some shares and mapped to
them. In windows xp they look like this:

Shared on 'File Server (fs)' (F

the 'File Server' part appears to be the computer description on the server,
I changed that yesterday, but today the drives still map with the old name.
Is there some other place I have to change that name to get it to change on
workstations?

"dlw" <> wrote in message
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>I set up a new win server 2008 r2 file server, made some shares and mapped
>to
> them. In windows xp they look like this:
>
> Shared on 'File Server (fs)' (F
>
> the 'File Server' part appears to be the computer description on the
> server,
> I changed that yesterday, but today the drives still map with the old
> name.
> Is there some other place I have to change that name to get it to change
> on
> workstations?


Remap the drive to pick up the new name. If you have a logon script, in the
beginning of the script, for good practices, disconnect all map drives, then
re-map them. This way all users get a fresh mapping each time, and if
another app or something else had disconnected a mapped drive, and took the
letter, the disconnect command in the script will remove it so it can use
the letter to map it to where it belongs.

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OK, new workstations mappings show the correct computer description of the
server, but workstations mapped on the old description still show the old
description, even when you delete and re-do the maping. Any what to change
that?

"dlw" wrote:

> I set up a new win server 2008 r2 file server, made some shares and mapped to
> them. In windows xp they look like this:
>
> Shared on 'File Server (fs)' (F
>
> the 'File Server' part appears to be the computer description on the server,
> I changed that yesterday, but today the drives still map with the old name.
> Is there some other place I have to change that name to get it to change on
> workstations?