[SOLVED] How to access homegroup on Windows 7

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Re: [SOLVED] How to access homegroup on Windows 7

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Finally got things to work! It was adding the lines (as administrator) to the samba conf file that did it. I had to 1) respecify the workgroup name, and 2) add in the name resolve order line. It should not have to be this difficult ... but all's well that ends in the well, as they say :)
- Elmar
Dual boot win 10 & Linux Mint
Release Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia 64-bit
Kernel Linux 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64
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