[Samba] Name resolution for home network?

[Gilles]

On 07/04/2025 15:15, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> Well, seeing as how you are going for lightness, how about dnsmasq ? If you do not really want to run a dns server, then you could fall back
> on Avahi.

Which do you recommend for a LAN to complement wsdd for name resolution?

> Try reading 'man smb.conf', you can remove most of those settings from
> your smb.conf file.

I could, although I tend to lean on the "if it ain't broke, don't fix 
it" philosophy, and that file has so many options, some outdated or 
synonyms, that it's not easy to understand for non-experts.

https://www.samba.org/~ab/output/htmldocs/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html