wsdd2 (WSD/LLMNR Discovery/Name Service Daemon) Provides samba share discovery for clients who don't support netbios or are running ip6 (which netbios does not support). This is based on the NETGEAR implimentation. NOTE: make sure you allow local ip6 connections in your samba config otherwise there will be no shares found. if you use "hosts allow" in smb.conf then add fc00::/7 fe80::/64 ::1 to the list of your local ip4 addresses so that local ip6 pcs can use your shares. NOTE2: The following ports/addresses also need to be open if you are using a firewall: tcp port 3702 (unicast), and udp ports 3702 ( multicast on ports 239.255.255.250 / ff02::c ) tcp port 5355 (unicast), and udp on ports 224.0.0.252 / ff02::1:3 (multicast) to get wsdd2 to run automatically on startup add the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local #start wsdd2 daemon if samba is configured if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wsdd2 ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.wsdd2 start fi and to stop it on shutdown, add the following to samba section in /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown #stop wsdd2 daemon if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wsdd2 ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.wsdd2 stop fi