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

[Jeremy Allison]

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)

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 :-).