[Samba] Advertising Samba shares on the local network via mDNS

Rishi Srivatsavai rishisv at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 03:50:22 GMT 2007


On 1/31/07, Gerald Carter <coffeedude.jerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:57:03PM -0600, Gerald Carter wrote:
> >> I don't see what this offers over the old server announcement
> >> datagrams used as part of network browsing.  Or are you just
> >> trying to provide the same functionality without NetBIOS?
> >> (e.g. over port 445)
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> > It's a more modern way of doing the same thing. Anything
> > that allows me to stop maintaining nmbd is a goodness as
> > far as I'm concerned :-).
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> Yeah ok.  Same difference :-)  I can't find any definitive
> docs on mDNS in Windows though.    Anyone got a URL to msdn
> articles?
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>
Bonjour for Windows is available from Apple.

Rishi


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