Network browsing

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday 13 Nov 2009 21:13:37 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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

Yes, I am getting:
avahi 5176 0.0 0.0 3068 1728 ? Ss 08:46 0:00 avahi-daemon: running 
[Rachael.local]
avahi 5181 0.0 0.0 2944  640 ? Ss 08:46 0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper

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