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How to join Ubuntu to a Windows Workgroup

yeah I remember doing this in college, on NT4 with mandrake. back then samba could be your BDC, ah memories

Actually you can do 'sudo apt-get install swat' in Ubuntu, then navigate to http://localhost:901 with your browser and set the workgroup name using nice web interface. There's just one problem: you have to create a password for root (sudo -i, then passwd).

To say about other distributions, there's a wizard for Samba configuration in Mandriva control center, and with (open)SUSE's YaST you can even join a NT domain or set up a primary domain controller. No need to hack configuration files by hand these days.

how old is this article ?
previous century !

Thanks for your nicely succinct summary. But in your Final Thoughts, didn't you mean to say "heterogeneous network"?

Hi!
This works fine except when the windows machine have Live Essentials 2011 installed. In previous versions of Live software, uninstalling "Windows Live Sign-in Assistant" was enough to acces windows share, now it seems that this is included on the whole package.

This article has given me a good idea about samba service.. Thanx..

I concur. Not that I've tried it out but a quick thought: the easier you make it the less versatile it is.

Roy.

I've been struggling with Samba a bit lately and this fixed all my problems. You're timing could not be better!!

This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to read the blogs here... Basic, I really understand it (write code hacks for Samba) and still you guys get it right and share it well. Short, to the point and useful. Thanks Jack!