Thanks heaps to everyone who has made the reappearance of UNIX Shares in the Network Neighborhood possible!! WSDD.py is brilliant
This issue has been nagging at me for several years.
Can I ask what the likely timeline for inclusion in FreeNAS? I did see talk of 11.2-U4 but I don't seem to be able to find it.
I have got this running semi automatically on both my NAS devices. Here's how...
Follow the instructions regarding NetBIOS, SMB and WINS from the original article referenced in the first post in this thread
Create /usr/local/bin/wsdd with the contents of the excellent module from christgau
File here
chmod go+x wsdd
Modify the hashbang in the file to be #!/usr/local/bin python
Create a shell script somewhere mountable. I called mine wsdd.sh (not very original :))
Contents of the script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/wsdd -w <workgroup name> -i <preferred interface> &
if connected to a domain try this variation
Code:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/wsdd -d <domain name> -i <preferred interface> &
(NB the inclusion of an ampersand at the end of the command)
Set up a Task as a script pointing to wsdd.sh. Run it PostInit.
Reboot FreeNAS
Windows Network explorer now shows FreeNAS Server+Shares