WORKGROUP in Lion - Cannot network with Win 7

It does work... try it. I only have to fix like once a month or so. It's been a bug since 10.7 and i'm on 10.8 now.

Unfortunetly not working for me. Steps I tried

Restart

Check WINS. It is blank

Turn Off File Sharing in the Sharing Dialog

Go To WINS and it now mysteriously has my WorkGroup and NetBIOS Name.

Turn On Sharing,

Check WINS again and it is still there.

Restart computer,

WINS is Blank.

I Tried it 3 times. . . same result.

A solution might be to have this run automatically at startup:

sudo touch "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist" password=myadminpassword

This works fine within Terminal (replace myadminpassword, with you password) and the WINS Workgroup is updated immediatly with the Value in the com.apple.smb.server.plist file.

However I don't know how to do this automatically. . . I read what I could on LaunchAgents and got the App "Lingon 3" to help make it easier, but it did not want to run this command in root.

Ideas?

Hello all

Thanks so much for all this, I was just getting mad until I read this thread.

So, same thing here: Workgroup was getting lost when my iMac boots up (or gets out of sleep mode). Solution is to run this "sudo touch..." command.

I can't seem to find a solution as how to run it when the iMac wakes up, but when it boots up, Applescript is what you're looking for.

Run AppleScript editor, create a new script and insert this:

{do shell script "sudo touch /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist" user name "your_user" password "your_pwd" withadministrator privileges} (don't insert the brackets...)

Save the script, somewhere easy to find (like documents).

Then, in the System Preferences (not sure of the English name, sorry), go in Users and Groups (again, sorry).

Go in tab Start (or Open or... actually, the 2nd tab of your user, next to password). This tab manages all the scripts and programs that are to be run when your user logs in. Just drag&drop the script you've created within the list.

Next time you start your Mac, the sudo touch command will be automatically run.

Cheers

Shame on Apple - the solution is so easy - look at this tread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4512558

It's a bug not yet solved by Apple in OS X ML !!!

Regards Michael

Is there any code snippet to view our own workgroup name on mac?

If so then help is welcome.

Thanks in advance.