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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:30:32PM -0500, Rishi Srivatsavai wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I would like to add support for advertising Samba shares (browseable ones)
>> on the local network using Multicast DNS. Multicast DNS allows applications
>> to query/publish network services on the local link. I would appreciate if
>> you
>> could all please share your thoughts on whether such support would be
>> welcome in Samba. If you know of existing efforts in Samba to include
>> such support please let me know as well.
>>
>> With this support in Samba "mDNS" aware tools & clients on Mac OS X
>> (Bonjour),
>> Linux(Avahi), Solaris & Windows can easily discover Samba shares on the
>> local link.
>> Once discovered users could go about configuring access to those shares.
>
> No there is no current work implementing this so any patches for
> current SVN would be very welcome !

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)






cheers, jerry
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