Really depends on how you use your network. If all your machines already see each other, and you connect by name, this setting won't add much beyond complexity. However, if you ever find yourself trying to get to another machine by IP address, this can help move you to using names.
My personal preference is to connect to anything by name, and my network does this via Bonjour. This setting in the router is another way, where everything on the network can have a name like "laptop.gbeer.net". Then, the router can also hand out DNS search domains, allowing you to connect to the system just by typing the name "laptop" instead of "laptop.gbeer.net".
Going to have to try that.
The connect by number is what I've been doing, and it's getting old.
Will it help the windows machines to discover each other? That's been a problem too.
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