"I had to fire up my Windows box today, and I wanted to get some files off of my Mac. That's not a big deal because they can see each other on the network, but from Windows I need to know the IP number of the machine I want it to look at.
I don't do anything fancy to give names to my machines on the home network since most of them are Macs and find out about each other through Bonjour. Since my main Mac is called "buster", from other Macs I get to it as "buster.local" whereever I need a host name. It's all very nice and happens without me thinking about it."
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