Samba and Work Group

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday, September 27, 2010, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 09/27/2010 02:57 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Monday, September 27, 2010, Billie Walsh wrote:
> >> How do you set the "Work Group" for the network?
> > 
> > Same as you would on Windows.....   I use 'PEER' as my workgroup for all
> > Windows and Linux machines.
> > 
> > Make something up if you have no Windows machines.
> 
> I can't find any place to enter it. Or, where it shows the name of the
> workgroup it's set up in. Under Network and Connectivity in System
> Settings there's Network Settings and Sharing. Neither has anything in
> them of interest. Knetworkmanager doesn't have anything useful either.
> 
> It seems to me that that sort of stuff used to be in Samba
> Configuration/Settings but I can't find anything for that.

From  /etc/samba/smb.conf   (near the top)

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = PEER