[Samba] Don't use .local

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.01.2015 um 12:43 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> On 05/01/15 11:34, Matt . wrote:
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> Ah, you just proved that people don't know what they are doing, by
> sending the same email twice, once just to me and once again to the list
> and me.

well, doing exactly the same (reply all) and quote two times the 
footer... :-)

> I understand what you are trying to say, but it totally misses the
> point. using .local can and will interfere with avahi *unless* you turn
> avahi off. Only problem with this, by turning off avahi, you may break
> something else. So the best option is to *not* use .local

outside a Apple network avahi don't have much use and using ".local" 
would not break AVAHI at all nor the other side if Linux distributions 
would stop ship a broken "nsswitch.conf", with the fixed below *both* is 
working just fine (vmware.local as DNS zone as well as Avahi)

hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal myhostname

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