On 16/07/2019 21:42, NY wrote:
> "Fokke Nauta"  wrote in message
> news:gp6i9jFhvn7U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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
>
> Interestingly, my smb.conf doesn't have a "netbios name" keyword, either
> active or commented-out. Presumably in the absence of the explicit
> keyword, it implicitly uses the computer's hostname.
>
> And my workgroup keyword is set to WORKGROUP, like yours is.
>
>
> I must admit I don't use workgroups and just connect to a "server's"
> shares using UNC \\server\share - for accessing all servers (Windows and
> Pi) from all clients (Windows). For commonly-used shares, I mount the
> sharename on a Windows drive letter ("net use r: \\martin-pi\pi-rec").

I added "netbios name = RASPBERRYPI" myself, as I've seen that somewhere.
And accessing my Pi with \\raspberrypi\pi works, but the password is not
correct. Strange, as I entered that in the Pi like "sudo smbpasswd -a pi".

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