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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?

Organic Marble
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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
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