[Samba] smb browse and V1

[Peter Carlson]

On 10/20/22 09:21, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On 20/10/2022 16:53, Peter Carlson via samba wrote:
> Others: Are there other options that I am missing?
>
> Samba has its own GPO tools, mostly written by David Mulder, perhaps 
> you could have a look at them.
>
> Rowland
>
In Progress at the moment
>>
>> Avahi:  I read the wiki about not naming .local  Just curious how 
>> will conflicts with avahi show up?  I'm pretty sure avahi is not 
>> installed:
>> ADDC:
>>
>>     root at nc1:/etc/bind# apt search avahi | grep -i install
>>     t3/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>>     libavahi-common-data/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 
>> [installed,automatic]
>>     libavahi-common3/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>>
>>
>> File Server:
>>
>>     SDCP\peter at filesvr:~$ apt search avahi | grep -i install
>>     ent3/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>>     libavahi-common-data/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 
>> [installed,automatic]
>>     libavahi-common3/jammy,now 0.8-5ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>>
>>
>
> ER, what do you think 'libavahi' is ?
> If you use '.local', you will basically have two servers replying. I 
> know that Microsoft used to recommend using '.local', but even they 
> now say it is a bad idea.

libavahi provides common code used by both the daemon and client utils.  
I have no daemon installed on the file server

I would stop using .local, but that will require leaving and rejoining 
on a lot of machines that are remote to me :(  , for now we just wont 
use avahi on any servers, unless there is a cool way to rename a domain

>
>>
>> Peter
>> PS: I can list the shares with smbclient
>> SDCP\peter at xrdp:~$ smbclient -L //filesvr
>> Password for [peter at SA*****NT.LOCAL]:
>>
>>      Sharename       Type      Comment
>>      ---------       ----      -------
>>      Test            Disk      test
>>      BinaryData      Disk      Store for DB and Middleware
>>      Ca*****nt   Disk      Ca*****nt Common Files
>>      Ca*****nt-Accounting Disk      Ca*****nt Accounting Files
>>      Ca*****nt-Secure Disk      Ca*****nt Secure Files
>>      Dwayne-Secure   Disk      Dwayne Secure Files
>>      Faxes-In        Disk      Fax Server Holding
>>      Faxes-Out       Disk      Fax Server Holding
>>      Software        Disk      Software Repository
>>      FacilityPictures Disk      Facility Pictures
>>      IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (filesvr server (Samba, 
>> Ubuntu))
>> SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available
>
> Windows now uses Network Discovery instead of Network Browsing, there 
> are a few servers available for Linux, do a search on 'wsdd'
>
> Rowland
>
So I want to make sure I understand.  Network discovery does both find 
the server (Ie: old network neighborhood) and displays the shares?  I 
only need the 2nd.

Is there a preferred discovery server from the samba team perspective?

Peter