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Bogus workgroups

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by mustmakepar

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We have been having a problem with people from other company's that come in and plug their laptops into our network. When they do this, it creates a new workgroup that is named after the workgroup that their laptop (or their company workgroup) belongs to. How do I remove these workgroups?

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by aclopez5

Delete the workgroup entries from the WINS database. If you have only a couple of WINS servers, you can delete the entries individually from each server. If you have many WINS servers, you'll need to TombStone the entries so the deletion will be replicated.

You'll probably still see the workgroup name(s) for a day or two (must be cleared from Master Browser cache).

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