[Samba] Windows 7 & 8 + HomeGroup support

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:11:36 -0700 vous écriviez:

> As windows 8 is continuing the tradition of using HomeGroup instead
> of traditional sharing, I'd like to re-request that some
> consideration be given to implementing HomeGroup support in Samba.

From my understanding of HomeGroup (admittedly incomplete), it uses
different protocols, sharing and authentication mechanisms, etc than
SMB. Therefore it belongs to an entirely different package than samba
(maybe under the samba.org umbrella, but another program nonetheless).

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