From: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
samba-technical <samba-technical@lists.samba.org>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Network discovery of nearby Samba servers
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:34:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d0749a2-17ee-4774-abed-c2d12d61cedf@samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5muLs97YW12d1C4TWS4wHF-mbphVJCqzVe9LBNE6iYLPKQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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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2024-09-19 1:50 Network discovery of nearby Samba servers Steve French
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