WS-Discovery went bye-bye

[TimBaeten]

Greetings all, I had a SMB share setup and working, meaning I could find it from Win11 machines using its name, mount it and perform file operations to/from it. Now I can only get to it via IP address. I did some searching and I don't think anything matches, but I tried the various suggestions to no avail. I am running core 12.0-U7, can't say when it stopped but it was recently. Any thoughts. Thanks. Tim

 

[TimBaeten]

Anyone?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Try service wsdd restart.

 

[TimBaeten]

Thanks Samuel, but that didn't help.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Is the box for WS-Discovery still checked under Network->Global Configuration? How is your network set up under Network->Network Summary on the server, and on your client?

 

[TimBaeten]

Is the box for WS-Discovery still checked under Network->Global Configuration? How is your network set up under Network->Network Summary on the server, and on your client?

It is. I think it's because it is on a different subnet. I can get to it via TCPIP, but WS-Discovery doesn't seem to be making it through the switch/router.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Windows 10: Enable network browsing / WS-Discovery / UPnP / SSDP service discovery across subnets from Windows Explorer - Microsoft Q&A

This is a repost from serverfault - I figure the chances that someone in the audience knows the answer are higher here. I have the following scenario: Two sites, each with their own network (non-overlapping private subnet), connected with a…

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Does your network support multicast routing? Did your network admin either disable multicast, or filter out the multicast endpoint IPs and/or ports?

 

[TimBaeten]

I'm the network admin. I did update the firmware, so maybe some behavior was changed from the previous firmware. Interesting thing is that I can still get to it via the UNC path, just can't see it in the network browse, I'm ok with that.

Thanks for the help

 

[x130844]

Try service wsdd restart.

Hi, TrueNas 13.0 now has the same issue, and "service wsdd restart" works. the network show again on windows10. but I have to run this very often. Any idea why I have to restart wsdd all the time? how to debug?
Note that it happens to ALL windows machines on the network. Is my wsdd crashing?

 

[anodos]

Hi, TrueNas 13.0 now has the same issue, and "service wsdd restart" works. the network show again on windows10. but I have to run this very often. Any idea why I have to restart wsdd all the time? how to debug?
Note that it happens to ALL windows machines on the network. Is my wsdd crashing?

There should be a wsdd log in /var/log. Maybe check there. Send me a debug and I'll take a look through it. IIRC in 12 I had to add a bunch of error handling for some invalid payloads being sent out by some IOT-style devices (Exception would raise and wsdd would exit). Might have forgotten to forward-port to SCALE/13.

 

[x130844]

There should be a wsdd log in /var/log. Maybe check there. Send me a debug and I'll take a look through it. IIRC in 12 I had to add a bunch of error handling for some invalid payloads being sent out by some IOT-style devices (Exception would raise and wsdd would exit). Might have forgotten to forward-port to SCALE/13.

awesome!
for whatever reason there's no wsdd* in /var/log
I did a find too, nothing in /var/log/* related to wsdd
Is that the right location for truenas 13? (freebsd 13.1/ truenas core)

 

[anodos]

awesome!
for whatever reason there's no wsdd* in /var/log
I did a find too, nothing in /var/log/* related to wsdd
Is that the right location for truenas 13? (freebsd 13.1/ truenas core)

Hmm.... I'll provide a replacement wsdd.py tomorrow some time that will be properly instrumented.