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GNOME Support Forums :: View topic - Put machine with Redhat 9 in a network workgroup
Hi everybody,
i am using GNOME on Redhat 9.
I am wondering if somebody know or if there is a way to put my machine in a network workgroup as on Windows platforms.
I would like to do that without using samba if possible.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Karim.
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Afaik this is only possible with samba...
If its configuration your worried about, don't be, redhat 9 has a simple samba config dialog that is probably exactly what your looking for.
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Don't be disappointed if you come across problems even after running samba on the Linux computer.
LAN browsing isn't Windows network administrators' favorite thing to support.
Even in a pure Windows network with all computers running the "File and Print Sharing Service" (which is what samba basically is), workgroup browsing does not always work.
I was intrigued by your post to do a small experiment.
I turned on a Windows XP Professional computer, browsed Entire Network -->
Microsoft Networks, and saw the computer itself.
This was a normal behavior.
I turned on another Window XP Professional computer.
It showed up in the first computer's network browser, which was normal too.
Then I paused the "Server" service (same as samba) on the second computer.
The first computer told me it could not browse the network because of a server error.
This was rediculous because it was not a domain environment.
Finally I stopped the "Server" service on the second computer.
I tried to browse on the first computer.
It didn't gave me any error this time.
But it could no longer see itself in its own workgroup.
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Oh, one more thing.
MS Windows Service for UNIX is supposedly able to act as both NFS client and NFS server now.
Sounds cool. Never tried yet.
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Thanks to all your answers.
I will be oblige to do it using samba.
I was thinking that there is another way of setting a workgroup using the tools available in the GNOME environment on Redhat.
Sounds good.
Thanks.
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