Network browsing

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Fraser wrote:

> On Thursday 12 Nov 2009 21:07:01 Mark Traceur wrote:
>> > However, I am unable to get it to actually view anything. If I click on
>> > the Network icon, I can see the computers on my network, but clicking
>> > on one of those brings up another icon of type workgroup manager.
>> > Clicking on that icon, I'm asked what I want to open it with.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure they're all Samba shares, since FTP and SSH are
>> usually dealt with in the terminal. If you don't have any samba shares
>> on your network, well, that's probably why you can't open anything.
> 
> I don't think it's Samba as smb://workgroup/ shows 3 servers, but
> network:/ shows only 2. Also each server is listed as name
> [xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx] and trying to open it I'm asked:
> Open 'network:/name.local/'?
 
OK, that's avahi (the .local is a giveaway).
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derek