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Came up in my first few years of using Linux, as a kid, at home, to get NetBIOS and Avahi name resolution working so my device could access Windows network shar
by pxc 4y ago
Came up in my first few years of using Linux, as a kid, at home, to get NetBIOS and Avahi name resolution working so my device could access Windows network shares and other things by name. No fancy enterprise use case required; just being able to ping a computer on the LAN by name involves nsswitch.conf!