Duplicate PC Names in Thunar

[Red_Stag]

Dear All, I wonder if someone would provide a little guidance? For reasons I don't understand my home PC network lists duplicate names of the PC's turned on and connected to the LAN as per the attached image. All PC's on the LAN are running MX-Linux 19 and I used the default settings at installation so I guess that means the network thinks it is domain "example.com". I also selected to install Samaba for file sharing purposes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks

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System:    Host: Picasso Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=0e1f8e08-fd82-4e1a-a518-c7de977a0424 ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq 8000 Elite CMT PC v: N/A 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3647h serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
           v: 786G7 v01.14 date: 10/14/2015 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
           family: 6 model-id: 17 (23) stepping: A (10) microcode: A0E L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11970 
           Speed: 2638 MHz min/max: 1998/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1995 2: 1995 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2e12 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Q45/Q43 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801JD/DO HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3a6e 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e 
           v: 3.2.6-k port: 3100 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:10de 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Belkin F5D7000 v7000 Wireless G Desktop Card [Realtek RTL8185] 
           driver: rtl818x_pci v: kernel port: 2100 bus ID: 10:01.0 chip ID: 1799:700f 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 4.21 TiB used: 723.87 GiB (16.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Imation model: Nano size: 3.73 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB 3.0 size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
           logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0508 scheme: MBR 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk size: 119.24 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 5 
           scheme: MBR 
           ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0001 
           ID-5: /dev/sde vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0001 
RAID:      Supported md-raid types: raid1 linear multipath raid0 raid6 raid5 raid4 raid10 
           Device-1: md0 type: mdraid status: active Components: online: sde~c1 sdd~c0 
           Info: raid: mirror blocks: 1953383488 report: 2/2 UU chunk size: N/A 
           super blocks: 1.2 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 15.01 GiB size: 14.71 GiB (98.01%) used: 9.17 GiB (62.4%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdc4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://mx.mirror.ausnetservers.net.au/packages/antix/buster/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mx.mirror.ausnetservers.net.au/packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 221 Uptime: 1h 11m Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 1.54 GiB (20.0%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[JayM]

Maybe samba's caching your network shares somewhere and those are from duplicate cache entries? I have no idea though as I don't use samba since I can only use one computer at a time anyway. :)

[asqwerth]

They could be listing the different ways/protocols of connecting, if it's similar to Gnome's Nautilus interface, e.g. ftp, afp, smb, etc.

[Red_Stag]

Thank you for the responses. They prompted me to view the location bar to see what that says for each of the two listings just to see what it says. As you can see from the attached Newton has two listing with different paths. Interesting but where does this lead us?

[JayM]

Is Newton the computer that you're using, or is it one of the other ones on the network?

[Red_Stag]

I am using Picasso and Newton is my apt-cacher in another room and connected directly to the router.

[Red_Stag]

Dear All, after years of trying to resolve this I think I have worked it out. I think what was happening is that I was assigning static IP addresses using DHCP however DHCP continued to also assign dynamic addresses, hence a double up. I have never seen this before, didn't know this was even possible. In any event once I removed the static IP addresses on DHCP (router) I now have a single instance of every machine on the network. Thank you to the forum for your responses and taking the time to read and respond. Please regard this request as resolved.