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WS-Discovery Protocol on Linkstations?

Started by Johndoh, March 01, 2025, 08:25:03 PM

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Johndoh

Been doing a bit of digging around wrt to the reason that my Linkstations are not showing up in the Windows 11 Network in Windows File Explorer. Turns out that MS not only deprecated SMB1 in Windows 10, Version 1709, they also deprecated the Computer Browser method of device discovery and replaced it with the WS-Discovery protocol. So if your Linkstations aren't showing up in your Network 'Neighborhood' then it's likely been caused by the older Linksations not having been enabled for WS-Discovery. Whole thing is explained here:

https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/using-ws-discovery-to-enable-windows-10-to-browse-smb-shares-in-my-home-network-of-linux-computers/

As this article lists there is a wsdd daemon available which would make SMB shares on Linux machines visible in Windows Network again. This can be found on GitHub here:

https://github.com/christgau/wsdd

There is also wsdd-native, which can be found here:

https://github.com/gershnik/wsdd-native

So, question is, has anyone tried to implement this on a Linkstation? I've tried a couple of searches on here but without much luck.


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