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I have this problem at the office.

I have 3 PCs that are connected by ethernet cables and one that isn't because that one is connected without a cable, it's wireless.

The weird thing is that all the PCs are detected by a hostname.local, the other one which is the one that is wireless it can't be identified, except with just IP. How do I make it get identified and be .local?

Can anyone help me display this PC as .local? wired:

ifconfig on Wired PC:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr c8:0a:a9:9f:22:8c  
          inet addr:192.168.1.65  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ca0a:a9ff:fe9f:228c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:458841 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:297827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:609175794 (609.1 MB)  TX bytes:33497578 (33.4 MB)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:fb500000-fb520000

ifconfig on Wireless PC: 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1c:3e:84:14:77:1d 
          inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::1e3e:84ff:fe14:771d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:20252 errors:75 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:293591
          TX packets:20197 errors:24 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:9528535 (9.5 MB) TX bytes:4115883 (4.1 MB)
          Interrupt:17
Braiam
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djxxwolfxx
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    "connected by ethernet except one" How is the other PC connected then? Wireless on the same Layer 2 subnet? Or remotely? What are you trying to accomplish in the first place? Do you need a VPN perhaps? I mean... please provide a lot more information in your question (edit it!). – gertvdijk Jul 24 '13 at 18:02
  • didi t :P sorry, i got bad english – djxxwolfxx Jul 24 '13 at 18:05
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    If you have your wireless network connected to your wired as it is supposed to (flat layer 2 network), then it will just work. However, I think you have another routed network (layer 3 routed network) for your wireless. To confirm this, post the output of ifconfig on a wired PC and on the wireless PC into this question. .local is a zeroconf feature for which you need to be on the very same Layer 2 segment. – gertvdijk Jul 24 '13 at 18:09
  • . :D so uhh there you go. – djxxwolfxx Jul 24 '13 at 20:35
  • Looks like both are in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so it's likely you are using a flat L2 network. If you can reach both devices by IP address directly (e.g. ping 192.168.1.103 from the wired pc and ping 192.168.1.65 from the wireless PC), then it's still possible that some networking device (e.g. abusing router as AP) is blocking this mDNS traffic. – gertvdijk Jul 24 '13 at 20:41
  • mmmmk ill see about that, maybe ill reinstall ubuntu? – djxxwolfxx Jul 24 '13 at 20:43

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Installing and running Avahi will make it visible via Zeroconf, which means that other machines on the LAN that use Zeroconf will be able to access it as <hostname>.local.

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