Hi
This is probably a really daft question but i can't seem to find an answer anywhere!
If I click on network in the dolphin sidebar (kubuntu karmic) I get to a folder remote - dolphin
It contains shortcuts to samba shares (obvious really), network services (not so obviously the zero config items which I have never seen work) and network.

Network shows icons for all my linux machines on the network (samba shows all my windows machines and linux samba servers).
Nice, I thought, so I clicked a computer icon in network labelled 'hostname' and got a different icon labelled 'hostname.local'. clicking that got a blank and a message saying workstation does not exist.
What is supposed to happen? What can I expect access to?
The KDE and kubuntu docs on my computer don't mention this folder and I have been searching the net for anything about it but not found anything yet
Thanks

peterR: This is still something which is being actively developed, yet is operational in some cases. It doesn't work too well if you don't have SSH / etc being advertised by Avahi.

Thanks
So does that mean it is basically another version of zero conf? (I gather zeroconf uses avahi)

how does one advertise ssh via avahi? most of the linux boxes on my network have ssh server running for remote admin anyway so using this for easy file access sounds really useful.

I tried turning on zero conf on a Kubuntu8.04 machine but it was still not accessible under network:/ and on my 9.10 machine I can not see a way of turning on service discovery (only adding a domain)

I do not know how to do it, but my SUSE systems have always done it by default.