I have a Leap 15.3 laptop that I am trying to use to browse my local network for other machines and my NAS. I am able to connect to the NAS and other shares on the network by name and path as well as IP and path, but I am not able to browse for them through “Other Locations”. I do see my local machine and “Windows Network”. But, when I click on “Windows Network”, nothing shows up. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Probably you need Web Service Discovery (wsdd) to be installed. See here for more information.
openSUSE Tumbleweed provides a package for wsdd (in the OSS repository) but I do not know if there is a package for openSUSE Leap 15.3.
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susejunky
That is primarily for allowing a samba host to advertise its presence to Windows machines.
Which desktop environment?
FWIW, KDE (with Dolphin 20.04 onwards) does make use of WS-Discovery to find Windows hosts (and Avahi for Linux samba hosts)…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/540152-Dolphin-File-Manager-Now-Supports-the-WS-DISCOVERY-Protocol-for-Samba-Host-Discovery
The Gnome file manager should be able to find Linux hosts via Avahi (check that you’re allowing mdns if the firewall is active).
The old NetBIOS-style discovery disappeared with SMBv1 being deprecated.
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susejunky
I’ve read that (and been using wsdd since 2020) but as far as I understand it does not provide a mechanism for Linux file managers to discover such hosts. However KDE has its own WS-Discovery client in any case…