[wellylug] samba workgroup name length requirement

Jeremy Naylor jeremy.naylor at r2.co.nz
Sun Mar 21 11:59:43 NZST 2004


Hey Phillip,

Noooooooo! Not Debian! :P

Oops, sorry - I better shut up now. ;)

Thanks,

Jeremy Naylor.

At 10:09 AM 3/21/2004 +1200, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have just replaced my RH9 installation with a new Debian-based distro
>called MEPIS.
>http://www.mepis.org
>More on my installation adventures in another post, perhaps.
>
>Anyway, it uses a graphical install program to set up various things,
>including your samba setup (seems to be linked to komba2?). I have another
>Win2k/Linux dual boot machine on my home LAN. I have successfully used a
>3-letter long workgroup name in the past, but the MEPIS installation
>program insisted on having both a Domain name and a Workgroup name, and
>both had to be at least 4 letters long, otherwise it wouldn't proceed. I
>complied with a longer name.
>
>I thought I could just edit my smb.conf, change back to the old name and
>restart samba, but the longer name is apparently still in some other config
>file somewhere that I just can't find, even after re-boots. komba2 is now
>showing both workgroups.
>
>My question is, does anyone know anything about this longer workgroup name
>requirement, and should I just switch all machines to a longer name? I was
>wondering if it might be a new M$ thing. I've looked in man pages and on
>Google, with no luck. This komba2 thing reminds of why I quickly gave up on
>SWAT, and stuck to manually editing my smb.conf files.
>
>--Phillip
>
>
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