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10.5: How to set the Windows Workgroup
Authored by: UpTown on Wed, Nov 7 2007 at 9:00AM PST

I agree with diamondsw. This is a stupid place to set the workgroup, especially since in Tiger the workgroups appeared in Network in the sidebar.

However, the name of the configuration file is a useful hint; never thought of looking there.

I do hope Apple pulls the workgroup setting somewhere up to a more accessible place. There have been a ton of posts about this, especially by people who could not find servers on their networks once they upgraded to Leopard.

10.5: How to set the Windows Workgroup
Authored by: dewab on Wed, Nov 7 2007 at 9:28AM PST

Note: The name of the location in entirely arbitrary. It's the workgroup setting in the WINS tab that matters. Also, /var/run/smb.conf is a dynamic file, so if you just just edit that file, chances are the changes will go away in the future.