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When I used the Avahi Zeroconf Browser tool on my Lubuntu 16.04 machine, it lists only one of the machines on the LAN as a "Workstation".

What's the criteria for listing a LAN computer as a "Workstation" in this tool?

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You're seeing a _workstation._tcp service being published by that host. (It doesn't have any other purpose except for making the computer show up in a list.) There is no special criteria; all entries correspond to some or other service published via DNS-SD.

This (and a HINFO record with similar purpose) can be enabled in avahi-daemon.conf, and used to be published by default but was recently disabled for privacy reasons.

[publish]
publish-workstation=yes
u1686_grawity
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  • I think I recently got caught out by this in that my main Linux PC `/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf` had commented *formerly* default entries for these as `#publish-workstation=yes` and `#publish-hinfo=yes` but I had to **un**comment them in order to get the PC to show up as a workstation when I was using `avahi-browse -a -v` from my Raspberry Pi to try and find the PC! – SlySven Nov 25 '18 at 05:55