Error in Using Samba, chapter 4, on Virtual Servers
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com
Mon Aug 21 12:53:32 GMT 2000
In section 4.7.1, netbios aliases, I said
---
[global]
workgroup = SALES
hosts allow = 192.168.10.255
[sales1998]
path = /usr/local/samba/sales/sales1998/
...
This particular example would set the workgroup to SALES as well,
---
In fact, this is not true: if you set the machine
up as documented, the workgroup will be WORKGROUP.
You can't set multiple workgroups, just multiple servers.
I missed this in testing, and discovered it only
recently (ie, a kind commentator on samba-technical
corrected me (;-))
Specifically, "nmblookup -R admin" returns:
ELSBETH <00> - M <ACTIVE>
ELSBETH <03> - M <ACTIVE>
ELSBETH <20> - M <ACTIVE>
ACCOUNTING <00> - M <ACTIVE>
ACCOUNTING <03> - M <ACTIVE>
ACCOUNTING <20> - M <ACTIVE>
ADMIN <00> - M <ACTIVE>
ADMIN <03> - M <ACTIVE>
ADMIN <20> - M <ACTIVE>
SALES <00> - M <ACTIVE>
SALES <03> - M <ACTIVE>
SALES <20> - M <ACTIVE>
WORKGROUP <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
WORKGROUP <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
This means that the virtual hosts were working as intended,
but that the workgroup fell back to the default.
To O'Reilly: I propose removing the WORKGROUP =
line and the following description. Could you
please add this to the reported errata?
To Samba-technical: would it be a good thing
if you could set workgroups in included smb.conf files?
Would it be an easy change?
To samba-docs: I'll do this after the current list of
updates I'm working on.
--dave
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