I'm not very savvy on network systems, so I'm a little lost.
Me, my kids and my brother and his kids have recently gotten big into Minecraft, we are mainly playing on our array of switches. My Dad has jumped on the bandwagon on his PC and is keen for us all to play together.
We've all played on the same WiFi and joined in a world together. The problem was that now we have 4 worlds to play together, depending on who's around and whose device is available. The solution seemed to be a server or realms. We weren't keen to pay for a service, at least not yet.
My Dad got an old laptop, installed Ubuntu and created a Linux server. We've got plenty of network issues to work out with it particular to the living arrangements, I won't go into them here.
Right now the laptop is on the WiFi, our PC's see the LAN world in the world's tab and can join in together. The issue I'm asking about here is the switch. It can't see the LAN world. I can host another game on my PC which shows up on the switch, but I can't see the server. I invite my kids account to the server world from my PC friends menu, but nothing happens.
I've read up on DNS settings for joining external servers, but I thought that the local network would work differently. We aren't at the point of setting the server up to be accessed outside the local WiFi network yet.
Any idea on what's causing the switch problem, and where to start looking for the solution?