Problem defining the Samba workgroup

[Tom H]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:04 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 12:44 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ...
>>>>>> NoOp suggested that you add a dumbledore.kappa_net" entry to /etc/hosts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried doing so with ".workgroup" with your smb.conf but my workgroup
>>>>>> was still ".kappa_net".
>>>>>
>>>>> This apparently is not longer needed on 10.04. I just tried on the
>>>>> laptop & it didn't make any difference. What *did* make a difference
>>>>> after editing 'workgroup = <name>' in /etc/samba/smb.conf was to reboot.
>>>>> No matter what I tried (stopping/starting/restarting smbd & networking -
>>>>> logging out/in) made a difference. I could only pick up the new samba
>>>>> domain/workgroup name in nautilus *after* I rebooted.
>>>>
>>>> I changed the "workgroup = " a few times without restarting either
>>>> smbd or nmbd and "smbclient -L //127.0.0.1" output the new workgroup
>>>> as the domain every time! Unexpectedly!
>>>>
>>>> The new workgroup was also output after stopping and starting smbd and nmbd.
>>>
>>> Were you checking from a remote machine, or just local?
>>>
>>> Sorry, I should have mentioned that was using the laptop as the target
>>> base (change domain/workgroup) and the desktop to see if the changes are
>>> broadcast from the laptop to the desktop.
>>
>> I was being a locavore. Do you think that smbclient would behave
>> differently if used remotely?
>
> :-) I figured out what I missed; I failed to restart nmbd when I was
> testing - I only restarted smbd. Without restarting nmbd the changed
> didn't get broadcast to the net.

Good! And locally. smbd provides the samba shares and nmbd provides
the netbios name resolution.