Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Grant <m...@mattgrant.net.nz> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : wsdd Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Steffan Christgau <m...@s14u.de> * URL : https://github.com/christgau/wsdd * License : MIT License Programming Lang: Python 3 Description : The Web Service Discovery Daemon, to announce hosts for the Windows Network Browser This daemon is used to announce Linux Hosts to Windows 7+ computers for use in their File Manager network browsing, by using the Windows Services Discovery Protocol. This protocol is a local network segment procotol, which is multicasted on udp/3072, and incoming on tcp/5357 on the 239.255.255.250/ff02::c multicast addresses. It DOES have security issues, but it is designed for use in a trusted environment inside a firewall. Its quite useful for Samba, taking over from WINS and the Samba nmbd daemon. Installing this restores the Network browsing functionality to Windows 7+ Samba clients. I am initially getting it packaged and aceptted, dealing with intial bugs, and then will pass it on to the Debian Python Maintainers Team of which I am a member.
