This has bothered me for ages, but today I worked it out.

I am using a docker image for samba (dperson/samba) and that works fine after a bit of work, but it always bothered me that I could not see the computer in the home network. I know it is more secure not to, but sometimes convenience wins.

I finally found the answer, and it is wsdd

I found an undocumented, wsdd docker image image with 500k downloads in docker hub but no documentation at all. This yaml was enough to allow me to call it what I wanted rather than it’s rather prosaic name and it came up INSTANTLY:

  wsdd:
    image: viniciusleterio/wsdd
    container_name: wsdd
    network_mode: host
    restart: always
    command: >
      -i eth0
      -n MyServerName