Samba Share- Changed in 22.04?

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Ubuntu Version:
22.04 and 24.04

Desktop Environment (if applicable):
Gnome

Problem Description:
What changed with Samba from 22.04 to 24.04? I have five computers running Ubuntu Desktop, some 22.04 and some 24.04. All of them have Samba installed and sharing a [share] folder.

The shares on computers running 22.04 can be seen on Windows File Manager by the hostname. The shares on computers running 24.04 cannot. I can, however see the shares using the host IP.

By hostname

byhostname
byhostname914×204 28.6 KB

So, what’s changed?
By IP
byIP

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I’m not 100% sure about this but I think newer versions of samba requires winbindd to share the name.

Try installing winbind package in the newest systems.

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Thanks for the tip. I did install winbindd, but the problem continued. I find a sort-of fix by adding the hostname to my Windows hosts file, but that is a pain.