Network browsing

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Fraser wrote:

> On Friday 13 Nov 2009 14:45:42 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Right, next question. How do I set avahi up?

Strictly, you don't.  There are things you can do to publish names and 
services via avahi (I see Dolphin actually lists machines and services 
separately), but machines should be published by default, and the avahi-
browser should be running:
$ ps aux | grep avahi
avahi     5114  0.0  0.0   3196  1132 ?        Ss   Nov12   0:09 avahi-
daemon: running [morgen.local]
avahi     5115  0.0  0.0   2820    12 ?        Ss   Nov12   0:00 avahi-
daemon: chroot helper

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derek