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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.

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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