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echo: rberrypi
to: FOKKE NAUTA
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2019-07-16 16:33:00
subject: Re: Wrong workgroup name

On 16/07/2019 15:09, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the Raspberry Pi (3, stretch) as a pi hole in our LAN. It has
> a static IP address on eth0. Wifi is not used. It works well.
> The only thing I notice is when I scan our LAN. There are several pc's
> and they all show the workgroup name "WORKGROUP". The Pi however shows
> the workgroup name "RASPBERRYPI  d". I don't know where this comes from.
> How can I change this into the same "WORKGROUP"?.
>
> Thanks beforehand,
>
> Rgs,
> Fokke Nauta

That will be somewhere in Samba configuration.

/etc/samba/smb.conf

there is a workgroup directive. edit it and restart samba

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