How to setup Samba with two workgroups?

This page was written by Pluto and imported with their permission when LinuxMCE branched off in February, 2007. In general any information should apply to LinuxMCE. However, this page should be edited to reflect changes to LinuxMCE and remove old references to Pluto.

I have LinuxMCE hybrid in "LinuxMCE" workgroup. I have the rest of my windows computers on another workgroup. They seem not to see each other unless I do this :

1. add

wins support = yes

under [global] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf - it's even better if you change this in /usr/pluto/templates/smb.conf.tmpl

1. add Hybrid's IP as Wins server on all windows clients....