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According to Debian's RPi3 image wiki, I should be able to ssh into a Raspberry-Pi, with just the hostname. I shared internet from my Debian laptop, WiFi to the a Raspberry-Pi over Ethernet, but the hostname never resolved.

What kind of settings/configuration do either the client and server or the network need for LAN hostname resolution to work?

What do I need to install on the Pi so that MS-Windows can resolve the Pi's IP address when I want to access a web server hosted on it, for example? I think it's smbclient but I'm not sure.

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    They are not saying it is a given. They are saying if you have a local DHCP+DNS server configured in a certain way, it will work by name. You also have zeroconf ; also DNS configurations for more professional setting. smbclient if for SMB file shares, has nothing to do with it. Also, for a web server, you do not specify what you want to do with it, and whom is getting into it e.g. what is your goal. Commented Jan 5, 2019 at 12:48
  • @RuiFRibeiro, I just need the web server to be accessible over the LAN using its hostname. Commented Jan 5, 2019 at 12:59
  • for how many computers? Commented Jan 5, 2019 at 13:01
  • @RuiFRibeiro, less than 10. It's going be pretty much unmanaged, that's why I'm not considering a DNS which I actually know how to set up. Commented Jan 5, 2019 at 13:17
  • @Oxwivi have you considered using mDNS? Commented Jan 5, 2019 at 13:28

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Enable Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) on the RPi. Edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and set LLMNR=true. Enable and start the systemd service system-resolved: systemctl --now enable systemd-resolved. No DNS server is needed, but name resolution only works on the local net. Make sure there are no duplicate hostnames on the LAN.

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  • resolved won't conflict with NetworkManager that's managing everything by default right? If it doesn't, I'll just uncomment the LLMNR line. Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 9:01
  • And is there a way to test that LLMNR is functioning as opposed to other methods like Avahi? Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 9:02
  • Try pinging the RPi's hostname from the Windows machine. Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 10:55
  • Well, I set it up in the target LAN. All devices are on 192.168.13.0/24 subnet. Pinging raspberrypi (default Raspbian hostname) or raspberrypi.local yielded no results. Commented Jan 10, 2019 at 7:21

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