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[Mark Fraser]

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?

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