F7 Silly question about system-config-samba

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2007/6/20, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:

>> The ; at the start of the line turns it into a comment. It is used
>> in place of the # to show that this is a parameter can be turned on
>> by removing the ;, as opposed to the explanation text after the #.
>> You will run into this fairly often in config files.
>>
>> You get a blank workgroup name because both the lines nameing the
>> workgroup are commented out, so you have not given the workgroup a name.
>>
>> Mikkel
> 
> tnx for quick answer...now the question is:
> 1) why nothing is changed in my samba.conf file if I write workgroup
> in that line?
> 2) why I see the shared directory from a Windows machine where
> workgroup is the name of workgroup???

Did you change

;    workgroup = workgroup

to

workgroup = workgroup

You may also need to tell samba that you  made the change.
"service smbd reload" as root.

Mikkwl
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