[NTLUG:Discuss] learning linux

[Bobby Wrenn]

David Evans wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have anetwork question for SUSE 9.0. I am running a windows network 
> using smoothwall for a firewall. There is one workgroup and a bunch of 
> windows machines. Using Konqueror I can connect to a windows machine 
> knowing it's ip address but trying to use local network Konqueror comes 
> up with an error and says "Unable to find any workgroups in your local 
> network." yast says everything is loaded that I need. Do I have a bad 
> setting or file somewhere?
> 
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David,

Have you configured Samba?
You should have an entry like:

[global]
         workgroup = <name of your workgroup>

Be sure to restart samba if you change the configuration.
</etc/init.d/smb restart>

HTH
Bobby