Problem defining the Samba workgroup

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 09/16/2010 10:05 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:57 PM,  <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> Sort of what I'm trying to figure out...How can I tell?
>>
>> NoOp suggested that you add a dumbledore.kappa_net" entry to /etc/hosts.
>>
>> I tried doing so with ".workgroup" with your smb.conf but my workgroup
>> was still ".kappa_net".
>
> This apparently is not longer needed on 10.04. I just tried on the
> laptop & it didn't make any difference. What *did* make a difference
> after editing 'workgroup = <name>' in /etc/samba/smb.conf was to reboot.
> No matter what I tried (stopping/starting/restarting smbd & networking -
> logging out/in) made a difference. I could only pick up the new samba
> domain/workgroup name in nautilus *after* I rebooted.

I changed the "workgroup = " a few times without restarting either
smbd or nmbd and "smbclient -L //127.0.0.1" output the new workgroup
as the domain every time! Unexpectedly!

The new workgroup was also output after stopping and starting smbd and nmbd.