On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:29 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:15:12 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:19 pm, dlwiggers wrote: > > > I know someone told me how to do this a couple of weeks ago, but > > > I just can't find my notes. > > > > > > How do I change workgroups so komba2 will see my 9.2 cooked box > > > as part of the windows workgroup? > > > > > > Lee > > > > Take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf for the line starting workgroup > > Well, that didn't turn out so good. > > I changed workgroup to home workgroup to match the other boxes and > it interfered with the samba being run by the VMware windows thing. > > I probably was supposed to reconfigure vmware to fix that, but I > panicked and uninstalled VMware altogether. I can reinstall that > but there must be another place where workgroup is established > because komba2 doesn't see the other boxes yet either. > > Hell, earlier today I was tickled because I knew how to put the > shell icon on my desktop. Good grief. > > > Lee Did you have the same hostname set in both VMWare and Linux? As far as Samba is concerned VMWare is a different computer and so must have a different hostname. Samba will use the Linux hostname as the Samba hostname by default, but you can set it manually using the 'hostname=' parameter in /etc/samba/smb.conf
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