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I've installed Ubuntu Server 18.04 on the machine I use as my home server. I've installed Samba on it so I could use it as a local file server. However, although I configured Samba and rebooted, my server doesn't show up in Networks in Files on my computer (running Ubuntu 18.04).

I used to always be able to access it from there. I can still connect to the server via Connect to server but I'm just wondering why I'm no longer able to directly access it from Networks.

Other Locations in file browser

A machine called UBUNTU-SERVER should show up. It also doesn't appear on my raspberry pi, just in case that's helpful.

Zanna
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AlexDude7
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For Linux-to-Linux host discovery without the use of any Windows-specific adjustments made to smb.conf you need to install the following package on your Ubuntu server:

sudo apt install avahi-daemon

Ubuntu enabled the multicast dns register option in the version of samba in 18.04 which will "announce" the server to the network but it will only work if avahi-daemon is installed on the server.

The avahi-daemon package should already be installed on all your Linux clients and its equivalent has been part of macOS for years.

Morbius1
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