Network discovery of nearby Samba servers

[Ralph Boehme]

On 9/19/24 3:50 AM, Steve French via samba-technical wrote:
> Today during one of the presentations at SDC, the Apple developers
> mentioned a tool called "Bonjour" ("Avahi" in Linux) that is used to
> find nearby file servers to mount to.   Is this (Avahi) possible for
> us to use from Linux to find nearby Samba servers to mount to?  I
> couldn't find instructions on how to setup Samba for this.

the protocol is mDNS, Avahi is the main implementation on Linux. Samba 
supports it is since, well, forever. Mac servers and clients will also 
use it. Unfortunately MS invented their own shit for the same purpose.

-slow
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