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NAME

       wsdd - A Web Service Discovery host and client daemon.

SYNOPSIS

       wsdd [options]

DESCRIPTION

       wsdd  implements both a Web Service Discovery (WSD) host and a WSD client daemon. The host
       implementation enables (Samba) hosts, like your local NAS  device,  to  be  found  by  Web
       Service  Discovery  clients  like  Windows. The client mode allows searching for other WSD
       hosts on the local network.

       The default mode of operation is the host mode. The  client  or  discovery  mode  must  be
       enabled  explictely.  Unless  configured  otherwise,  the host mode is always active. Both
       modes can be used at the same time.

OPTIONS

   General options
       -4, --ipv4only
              See below.

       -6, --ipv6only
              Restrict to the given address family. If both options  are  specified  no  addreses
              will be available and wsdd will exit.

       -A, --no-autostart
              Do  not start networking activities automatically when the program is started.  The
              API interface (see below) can be used to start and stop the  networking  activities
              while the application is running.

       -c DIRECTORY, --chroot DIRECTORY
              chroot  into  the given DIRECTORY after initialization has been performed and right
              before the handling of incoming messages starts. The  new  root  directory  can  be
              empty. Consider using the -u option as well.

       -h, --help
              Show help and exit.

       -H HOPLIMIT, --hoplimit HOPLIMIT
              Set  the  hop  limit  for  multicast packets. The default is 1 which should prevent
              packets from leaving the local network segment.

       -i INTERFACE/ADDRESS, --interface INTERFACE/ADDRESS
              Specify on which interfaces wsdd  will  be  listening  on.  If  no  interfaces  are
              specified,  all interfaces are used. Loop-back interfaces are never used, even when
              explicitly specified. For interfaces with IPv6 addresses, only link-local addresses
              will  be  used  for announcing the host on the network. This option can be provided
              multiple times in order to restrict traffic  to  more  than  one  interface.   This
              option  also  accepts IP addresses that the service should bind to.  For IPv6, only
              link local addresses are actually considered as noted above.

       -s, --shortlog
              Use a shorter logging format that only includes the level  and  message.   This  is
              useful  in  cases where the logging mechanism, like systemd on Linux, automatically
              prepends a date and process name plus ID to the log message.

       -u USER[:GROUP], --user USER[:GROUP]
              Change user (and group) when running before  handling  network  packets.   Together
              with  -c this option can be used to increase security if the execution environment,
              like the init system, cannot ensure this in another way.

       -U UUID, --uuid UUID
              The WSD specification requires a device to have a unique  address  that  is  stable
              across  reboots  or  changes  in  networks.  In  the context of the standard, it is
              assumed that this is something like a serial number. wsdd uses the UUID  version  5
              with  the DNS namespace and the host name of the local machine as inputs. Thus, the
              host name should be stable and not be modified, e.g. by DHCP. However, if you  want
              wsdd to use a specific UUID you can use this option.

       -v, --verbose
              Additively   increase   verbosity  of  the  log  output.  A  single  occurrence  of
              -v/--verbose sets the log level to INFO. More -v  options  set  the  log  level  to
              DEBUG.

       -V, --version
              Show the version number and exit.

   Host Mode Options
       -d DOMAIN, --domain DOMAIN
              Assume  that the host running wsdd joined an ADS domain. This will make wsdd report
              the host being a domain member. It disables  workgroup  membership  reporting.  The
              (provided)  hostname  is automatically converted to lower case. Use the `-p` option
              to change this behavior.

       -n HOSTNAME, --hostname HOSTNAME
              Override the host name wsdd uses during discovery. By default  the  machine's  host
              name is used (look at hostname(1)). Only the host name part of a possible FQDN will
              be used in the default case.

       -o, --no-host
              Disable host operation mode. If  this  option  is  provided,  the  host  cannot  be
              discovered by other (Windows) hosts. It can be useful when client/discovery mode is
              used and no announcement of the host that runs wsdd should be made.

       -p, --preserve-case
              Preserve the hostname as it is. Without this option, the hostname is  converted  as
              follows.  For  workgroup  environments  (see -w) the hostname is made upper case by
              default. Vice versa it is made lower case for usage in domains (see -d).

       -t, --no-http
              Do not service HTTP requests of the WSD  protocol.  This  option  is  intended  for
              debugging purposes where another process may handle the Get messages.

       -w WORKGROUP, --workgroup WORKGROUP
              By  default  wsdd  reports the host is a member of a workgroup rather than a domain
              (use the -d/--domain option to override  this).  With  -w/--workgroup  the  default
              workgroup  name  can  be  changed.  The  default  work group name is WORKGROUP. The
              (provided) hostname is automatically converted to upper case. Use the  `-p`  option
              to change this behavior.

   Client/Discovery Mode Options
       -D, --discovery
              Enable discovery mode to search for other WSD hosts/servers. Found hosts are logged
              with INFO priority. The server interface (see below) can be used for a  programatic
              interface. Refer to the man page for details of the server interface.

       -l PATH/PORT, --listen PATH/PORT
              Specify  the  location  of the socket for the server programming interface.  If the
              option value is numeric, it is interpreted as numeric port for a TCP  server  port.
              Then,  the  server  socket  is bound to the localhost only.  If the option value is
              non-numeric, it is assumed to be a path to UNIX domain socket to which a client can
              connect to.

EXAMPLE USAGE

   Handle traffic on eth0 and eth2 only, but only with IPv6 addresses
           wsdd -i eth0 -i eth2 -6

           or

           wsdd --interface eth0 --interface eth2 --ipv6only

   Set  the  Workgroup according to smb.conf, be verbose, run with dropped privileges, and change
       the root directory to an (empty) directory
           SMB_GROUP=$(grep -i '^workgroup=' smb.conf | cut -f2 -d= | tr -d '[:blank:]')

           wsdd -v -w $SMB_GROUP -u daemon:daemon -c /var/run/wsdd/chroot

FIREWALL SETUP

       Traffic for the following ports, directions and addresses must be allowed:

       - Incoming and outgoing traffic to udp/3702 with  multicast  destination:  239.255.255.250
       for IPv4 and ff02::c for IPv6

       - Outgoing unicast traffic from udp/3702

       - Incoming traffic to tcp/5357

       You  should  further  restrict  the  traffic to the (link-)local subnet, e.g. by using the
       `fe80::/10` address space for IPv6. Please note that IGMP traffic must be enabled in order
       to get IPv4 multicast traffic working.

API INTERFACE

       Wsdd  provides  a text-based, line-oriented API interface to query information and trigger
       actions. The interface can be used with TCP  and  UNIX  domain  sockets  (see  -l/--listen
       option).  The  TCP  socket  is bound to the local host only. The following commands can be
       issued:

   clear - Clear list of discovered devices
       Clears the list of all discovered devices. Use the probe command  to  search  for  devices
       again. This command does not return any data and is only available in discover mode.

   list - List discovered devices
       Returns  a  tab-separated  list of discovered devices with the following information.  The
       possibly empty list of detected hosts is always terminated with a single dot ('.')  in  an
       otherwise empty line. This command is only available in discover mode.

       UUID   UUID  of  the  discovered device. Note that a multi-homed device should appear only
              once but with multiple addresses (see below)

       name   The name reported by the device. For discovered Windows hosts, it is the configured
              computer name that is reported here.

       association
              Specifies  the  domain  or  workgroup to which the discovered host belongs to.  The
              type of the association (workgroup or domain) is separated  from  its  value  by  a
              colon.

       last_seen
              The date and time the device was last seen as a consequence of Probe/Hello messages
              provided in ISO8601 with seconds.

       addresses
              List of all transport addresses that were collected during  the  discovery  process
              delimited by commas.  Addresses are provided along with the interface (separated by
              '%') on which  they  were  discovered.   IPv6  addresses  are  reported  on  square
              brackets. Note that the reported addresses may not match the actual device on which
              the device may be reached.

   probe [INTERFACE] - Search for devices
       Triggers a Probe message on the provided INTERFACE (eth0, e.g.) to search for  WSD  hosts.
       If  no interface is provided, all interfaces wsdd listens on are probed.  A Probe messages
       initiates the discovery message flow. It may take some  time  for  hosts  to  be  actually
       discovered. This command does not return any data and is only available in discovery mode.

   start - Start networking activities
       This  command  starts  the  networking acitivies of wsdd if they haven't been started yet.
       "Hello" messages are emitted and the host is announced on the  network(s)  when  the  host
       mode is active. If the discovery mode is enabled a probe process is also started.

   stop - Stop networking activities
       This  is the reverse operation to start. When this command is received, "Bye" messages are
       sent in order to  notify  hosts  in  the  network  about  the  host's  disappearance.  All
       networking  sockets  used  for  the  WSD  protocol  are  closed as well. Activities can be
       restarted with the start operation.

SECURITY

       wsdd does not implement any security feature, e.g. by using TLS for the http service. This
       is  because  wsdd's  intended  usage is within private, i.e. home, LANs. The Hello message
       contains the hosts transport address, i.e.  the  IP  address  which  speeds  up  discovery
       (avoids Resolve message).

KNOWN ISSUES

   Using only IPv6 on FreeBSD
       If  wsdd  is running on FreeBSD using IPv6 only, the host running wsdd may not be reliably
       discovered. The reason appears to be that Windows is not always able  to  connect  to  the
       HTTP service for unknown reasons. As a workaround, run wsdd with IPv4 only.

   Tunnel/Bridge Interface
       If  tunnel/bridge  interfaces  like  those  created  by  OpenVPN or Docker exist, they may
       interfere with wsdd if executed without providing an interface that it should bind to  (so
       it binds to all). In such cases, the wsdd hosts appears after wsdd has been started but it
       disappears when an update of the Network view in Windows Explorer  is  forced,  either  by
       refreshing  the  view  or  by  a  reboot of the Windows machine.  To solve this issue, the
       interface that is connected to the network on which the host should be announced needs  to
       be specified with the -i/--interface option.  This prevents the usage of the tunnel/bridge
       interfaces.

       Background: Tunnel/bridge interfaces may cause Resolve requests from Windows hosts  to  be
       delivered  to  wsdd  multiple  times, i.e. duplicates of such request are created. If wsdd
       receives such a request first from a tunnel/bridge  it  uses  the  transport  address  (IP
       address)  of that interface and sends the response via unicast. Further duplicates are not
       processed due to the duplicate message detection which is  based  on  message  UUIDs.  The
       Windows  host  which  receives  the  response  appears  to  detect  a mismatch between the
       transport address in the ResolveMatch message (which is the tunnel/bridge address) and the
       IP of the sending host/interface (LAN IP, e.g.). Subsequently, the wsdd host is ignored by
       Windows.

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