<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> If you're on Lucid, you want /etc/samba/smb.conf - at the top, there's a line where you can edit the workgroup name - it defaults to workgroup though. It doesn't work on the hostname of the Ubuntu samba server. Paula On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared folders on the Windows Machine. I have installed Samba and changed the Workgroup name on the Ubuntu machine to match that of the Windows 7 machine. The Ubuntu machine sees the 7 machine, but all that happens when I try to access the shares is that the log-on screen keeps returning and I can't access the shares. Any thoughts as to what I should be looking at? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Need more info - are you trying to log in on a domain or just access shared files on Windows PCs in the neighbourhood? Which version of Ubuntu? If you're just accessing folders on WinXP rather than sharing them on Ubuntu, you should be able to do that anyway through Places -> Network -> Windows Network without installing Samba as the client is installed by default - you only need to install the Samba server if you want to share folders on Ubuntu with Windows users - then you'll need to install Samba, configure it in smb.conf, testparm, restart the Samba server and set up Samba users and passwords. If you need to configure the workgroup for the Samba server (to share Ubuntu folders with Windows), you use /etc/samba/smb.conf - it doesn't work like Windows where you need to sync the hostnames. Paula </BODY> </HTML>