TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: rberrypi
to: ALL
from: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
date: 2019-07-16 12:47:00
subject: Re: Wrong workgroup name

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:09:35 +0200, Fokke Nauta 
declaimed the following:

>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"?.
>

 Workgroups are mostly a Windows networking feature.

https://www.lifewire.com/definition-of-workgroup-816285

 For non-Windows, your are likely looking at configuration files for
Samba (SMB protocol)

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Samba/Configuring_a_Workgroup_from_the_Shell_with
_Samba

Hmmm -- interesting, the config file on my R-Pi3 IS configured as
"WORKGROUP"

-=-=-=-
md_admin@microdiversity:~$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
  
#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part
of
   workgroup = WORKGROUP

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
-=-=-=-

 OTOH; I don't believe I have Samba running on that device (it does not
show up in the Win10 Network list -- whereas the R-Pi3 running the Pi-Star
software DOES appear under "WORKGROUP"; going to see what happens if I edit
the config to my IMPERIUM group and reboot)


--
 Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
 wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | FidoUsenet Gateway (3:770/3)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.