[wellylug] samba workgroup name length requirement

Phillip Rose rosewong at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 22 10:02:30 NZST 2004


At 09:27 22/03/04 +1200, Tim Thomson wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:09:25AM +1200, Phillip Rose wrote:
>> 
>> 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. 

>Sometimes older workgroup and machine names seem to sometimes get cached
>under /var/run/samba (or more likely /var/cache/samba).

I gave up on the shorter name and converted to the longer name. Only the
longer name now shows in komba2 and /var/cache/samba.

>Perhaps komba2 may be caching the name too? I'm not sure, you may want
>to remove it's config file too. Probably somewhere like
>.kde/share/apps/komba2?

Nothing cached in there, or any obvious cache file, so it seems to rely on
the samba cache.

>> My question is, does anyone know anything about this longer workgroup name
>> requirement, 
>Google gave this: http://www.mepis.org/node/view/244 which seems to show
>it is just a bug in MEPIS.

Your googling skills obviously exceed mine! Thanks for your help.

--Phillip




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