This global option is frequently used with the
announce
as configuration option; it specifies the version of the operating system that Samba will announce to other machines on the network. The default value of this options is 4.2, which places itself above the current Windows NT version of 4.0. You can specify a new value with a global entry such as the following:
[global]
announce version = 4.3
We recommend against changing the default value of this configuration option.
