# Network shares and printing

Graphical builds include GVfs and its SMB backend. The common libfm defaults
enable **Network** and **Devices** in PCManFM's Places sidebar; its default
profile opens with that sidebar visible. LXDE keeps its separate LXDE profile.
User preferences in `~/.config/libfm/libfm.conf` and
`~/.config/pcmanfm/` take precedence over these system defaults.

Openbox's desktop menu offers **Network Shares** and **Printers**. The start
menu offers Network Shares among favourites and Printers in Control Center.
The application menu also includes a Network Shares launcher when PCManFM is
installed. Printer configuration uses `system-config-printer` with PolicyKit.

The printing profile enables `cupsd`, D-Bus and Avahi. Selecting a desktop
directly, without a preset, now includes this profile too.

## Live-session verification

1. Open PCManFM and select **Network**. Check discovery on the local LAN.
2. Press Ctrl+L and enter `smb://SERVER/SHARE` (or use the server IP).
   Verify login, listing, opening and copying files both ways where permitted.
   This tests SMB independently of automatic discovery.
3. Run `sv status /var/service/avahi-daemon /var/service/cupsd`.
4. Open **Printers**, add a network printer and print a test page.
   IPP Everywhere discovery requires a reachable printer advertising over mDNS.
5. Repeat in another PCManFM-based WM and an existing full desktop.

Automatic discovery depends on advertisements, routing and firewall rules.
The desktop-essentials profile includes upstream wsdd 0.9 and its Python/XML
dependencies. GVfs starts it on demand in discovery-only mode using a private
Unix socket; it needs no additional autostart or runit service. The vendored
source, licence, checksums and update instructions are in
`configs/custom_files/wsdd/README.md`. Direct SMB URLs do not depend on
WS-Discovery. SMB1 is kept
disabled. These changes configure clients; they do not enable a Samba server
or publish local folders/printers.

Automated checks cover build composition, configuration, menu commands and the
wsdd socket API with the command-line options used by GVfs.
They do not replace the live-session checks above.