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echo: rberrypi
to: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
from: FOKKE NAUTA
date: 2019-07-16 20:11:00
subject: Re: Wrong workgroup name

On 16/07/2019 17:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks.

Under [global] it says:
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = RASPBERRYPI

That should be enough, shouldn't it?

Fokke

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