On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:57:59PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
then I thought I'd better try rebooting this computer, ws1. Now after the restart/reboot the network browser displays nothing, not even the Mac portable which I believe is still running.
Since you disabled Avahi, you shouldn't expect to see anything the Mac advertises via mdns (i.e. Bonjour, Rendezvous, DNS-SD, zeroconf, etc. etc.).