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located in /etc/hosts this is one of the most critical files you will ever learn

I suppose it is good because smarter people than I adopted it.

The config is very very sensitive to spacing.

This allows you direct access to any computer as if it had a static IP.

I wish I had learned about this early on.

It allows easily for remote printing and direct NoMachine access.

There are many tools to do this.

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 [[IT/Software/Networking/WiFiScanning | WiFiScanning]]
-=== Printer Sharing on the network ===
+===Printer Sharing on the network===
 [[IT/Software/Networking/PrinterSharing | PrinterSharing]]
-=== Share a printer so that Windows clients can see and print. ===
-You need to have samba installed.
-CUPS will handle this almost automatically.
-You need to make two small chnage to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
-In the [printers] section:
-    browseable = yes
-    guest ok = yes
-When done, restart Samba:
- sudo service smbd restart
- sudo service nmbd restart
-Also, one would want to allow the following ports through a firewall (ufw for example) via:
- sudo ufw allow 139/tcp
- sudo ufw allow 445/tcp
- sudo ufw allow 137/udp
- sudo ufw allow 138/udp
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