Off list, Alex Pilon suggested that publish-workstation tag in avahi-deamon.conf needed to be set to yes. This fixes at least one machine. Have to go round and check one or two others. Best, JN On 2021-03-03 11:15 p.m., Scott Murphy wrote: > Do you have avahi > >> On Feb 27, 2021, at 11:02, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: >> >> I've set up a new machine for my wife and it is mostly going very well. >> >> One problem is that the WIRED network connection did not find other >> machines on the LAN, in particular raspberrypi.local and (synology-name).local >> >> It occurred to me that wired and wireless might have different configs, so I >> plugged in an old USB wifi dongle and things worked. >> >> So I'm wondering where to look for the config tweak that will fix this. >> >> I've found /etc/nnswitch.conf has >> >> passwd: files systemd >> group: files systemd >> shadow: files >> >> on the new machine, while my (wired) machine has >> >> passwd: compat systemd >> group: compat systemd >> shadow: compat >> >> Is that important? >> >> Looking for pointers to see if I can get things sorted out. >> >> Cheers, JN >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org >> > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org