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I can't get Samba to work. the workgroup name on both the windows and linux systems are the same, yet when I open the workgroup on the windows comp, only the windows comp appears in the work group. When I open the workgroup on my linux machine, it gives me the error message "Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "Windows Network: mshome"." and displays none of the shared folders. What should I do to fix Samba ??? Thx in advance.
You are probably running a default smb.conf.
In the [global] section set these values comment out any other values
Change the YOURGROUPNAME to what ever you are using as a workgroup name
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[global]
workgroup = YOURGROUPNAME
server string = Samba %v Server
; change address if your home network does not use 192.168.1.xxx
interfaces = lo eth0 192.168.1.0/24
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.1.
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
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