[Samba] Samba seem to work fine but "cannot find my workgroup"

[Steffen Dettmer]

Wow, thank you so much for your instant reply!

I added it and executed "smbcontrol all reload-config", but the
message keeps appearing.
Should I kill and disable nmbd? I see such a process running.

Steffen

root at nas1:/var/log/samba# systemctl status nmbd.service
● nmbd.service - Samba NMB Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nmbd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-03-16 13:51:19 CET; 3h 1min ago

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM Rowland Penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:19:54 +0100
> Steffen Dettmer via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I setup a new samba file server (in a priviledged Proxmox container
> > using the Debian 12 template) and apparently it works fine.
> >
> > In log I see every 10 seconds:
> >
> >   write_browse_list: Fatal error - cannot find my workgroup DMYDOM
> >
> > Google found one hint telling it should set "network = ip", but man
> > page does not explain such an option. Another hint suggests it could
> > be related to an old smbv1 and can be ignored.
>
> Yes, it can be ignored, it is coming from nmbd and that relies on SMBv1
> and it is now turned off by default. I suggest you add:
>
> disable netbios = yes
>
> to '[global]' in your smb.conf and reload or restart Samba.
>
> Rowland
>
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