samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Aug 27 20:17:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 22:07 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> James Wilkinson, il 27/08/2008 21:16, scrisse:
> 
> > Try having one domain name (on Samba) = workgroup name (on Windows)
> > across all your computers, but different names for each computer.
> 
> how can I set the domain name?
> I did set the workgroup name in smb.conf to "GRECOELEVATORI", in 
> /etc/hosts there is the line "127.0.0.1 barbara.grecoelevatori 
> barbara localhost.localdomain localhost", in /etc/sysconfig/network 
> I have "HOSTNAME=barbara.grecoelevatori", but pdbedit still says the 
> domain is "BARBARA".
> even win98 is configured with the correct workgroup, i.e. 
> "GRECOELEVATORI".
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because the user 'barbara' is a user on BARBARA domain (computer) not on
GRECOELEVATORI domain because there is no 'master' (PDC) to manage
domain users.

Your workgroup configuration sounds correct

Craig




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