[desktop-discuss] "Network Servers" icon?

[James Andrewartha]

Patrick Korsnick wrote:
> this is a really basic question, but the Network Servers icon that is always present on the JDS desktop-- what does it do?  i mean what kind of network protocol do you have to run to have anything show up in there?  i've got multiple solaris machines on my local network, and i've never seen any show up in that box.
> 
> so i'm guessing you have to be running NIS or Samba or something to see any machines... if you haven't guessed yet, i'm not a network guy ;)

It's mostly used for SMB, FTP, WebDav, and other gnome-vfs remote servers -
see http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.14/gosnautilus-515.html for
more details. If you want it off, change the gconf key at
/apps/nautilus/desktop/network_icon_visible to false.

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James Andrewartha