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Re: autodiscover of a samba share



On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:04:21 +0200, tadziu wrote:

> recently friend of mine visited me with his macbook in my home. i never
> used macos before to often, but i was amazed that its default file
> manager discovered automatically my public samba shares without
> mounting. they are just visible and accessible with single click, just
> after connecting to my wireless network.
> 
> honestly i'm jealous, BUT i'm pretty shure that it can be done in debian
> aswell.
> 
> was looking for some solutions on internet, but i haven't found anything
> satisfying.
> 
> any suggestions?

:-)

That's what actually GNOME nautilus (and I think Konqueror/Dolphin also) 
does when you connect to a windows network, it auto-discovers available 
resources and you can then click on them without mounting the share in 
the usual way but by means of "smb://" protocol.

Greetimgs,

-- 
Camaleón


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