Samba and Work Group

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/27/2010 05:25 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>    

Thanks, That helps.

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