samba question moving to LTS 12.04

[Colin Law]

On 16 October 2012 21:53, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Just an additional note on migrating to LTS 12.04 and a newer version of
> samba
> I decided to install the graphical samba configuration tool and let it
> create a samba configuration file to see what happened. When it was done I
> ran testparm on it and got the same error message  ERROR: You must specify
> both machine name and an IP address
>  Just to see what happened I started samba with both the newly created
> smb.conf and the old version, both seem to work fine. However I would rather
> not generate an error when I run testparm on the file. Any idea what I
> should add to get rid of the message?

How are you running testparm, is it just
testparm /usr/share/samba/smb.conf
or are you providing options also?

Colin