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echo: nthelp
to: Robert Comer
from: Randall Parker
date: 2006-07-23 09:55:22
subject: Re: Where is file sharing domain name set in Win XP?

From: Randall Parker 

Thanks, that is what I needed. I'd also forgotten the name of this laptop
and wondered what it is too.

Now I've got to figure out how to put my Linux box into the same workgroup and see if
the Windows box then sees it or not.

Robert Comer wrote:
> Unless you are going to run a domain server, all you need is workgroup name
> and it's in the Control panel -> System -> "Computer
Name" tab click the
> rename computer "Change" button, it allows changing the workgroup.
>
> fwiw, you don't have to have the same workgroup to share, that just makes it
> appear in the "Network neighborhood".
>

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