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by cube00 1760 days ago
My use case is accessing Samba shares on a Linux server from a Windows desktop, and it works with Windows Explorer and even older apps like the original Windows Media Player with no configuration or installation of any additional software.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-mdns-dnssd.html
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vetinari 1760 days ago
SMB has its own discovery protocol, that powered the "Network Neighbourhood" since Windows 95 - and it is part of the deprecated SMB1, so modern Samba has a special mode, where the discovery part is enabled, but the rest is disabled. Additionally, Windows can discover SMB shares via WS-Discovery. Samba itself does not support WSD, but there are third-party utilities like wsdd, that will do it instead. Some linux-based NAS-es, like those from Synology, also ship with WSD support enabled out of the box.

My experience with Windows 10 and mDNS/DNS-SD mirrors that from the linked article. As a result, I have now a real DNS domain, with devices with their own A records :/

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cube00 1760 days ago
It's not that. I confirmed with Wireshark mDNS queries are being sent from the Windows side and answered from Linux using the Avahi service. Furthermore, web hosting I have on that Linux server also works in Firefox just by visiting the server's host name.
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