[Samba] Domain membership

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 3 May 2024 15:19:01 +0200
Anders Östling via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I wrote a message a couple of days ago asking about Samba and SMB
> protocol levels on an old industrial robot with a pre-2010 Samba.
> That was resolved successfully. I now have another question
> concerning the same systems (the robots and the new Samba server,
> HP-SRV03).
> 
> root at hp-srv03:/
> *smbclient -L localhost -U administrator*
> Enter HPLTS\administrator's password:
> 
> Sharename       Type      Comment
> ---------       ----      -------
> bock            Disk
> IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 4.13.13-Debian)
> Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing.
> 
> Server               Comment
> ---------            -------
> 
> Workgroup            Master
> ---------            -------
> HPLTS                HP-SRV02
> NUMALLIANCE          R206
> WORKGROUP            HP-SRV03
> 
> What puzzles me is the last three lines. The actual domain is HPLTS to
> which the member server HP-SRV03 is joined. NUMALLIANCE is the "name"
> of one of the robots. No way to change or domain join these as I
> understand. So why is there a WORKGROUP record with the Samba servers
> name as master? Is this just a glitch due to the old samba version on
> the robots, or is it caused the the NT1 protocol level?

I wouldn't worry about it, they are an artefact of running nmbd and
will not cause any problems.

Rowland