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<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit> 
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<para>This protocol is intended to provide a kind of <quote>network neighbourhood</quote> but only relying on the TCP/IP protocol stack and with the ability to use other protocols than just <acronym>SMB</acronym>.</para>

<para>The lan tdeioslave can use &FTP;, &HTTP;, <acronym>SMB</acronym>, <acronym>NFS</acronym>, and <acronym>FISH</acronym></para>

<para>It must first be configured in &kcontrol;, <menuchoice><guimenu>Network</guimenu><guimenuitem>LAN-Browsing</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and for more information see <ulink url="help:/lisa">the Lan Browsing manual</ulink>.</para>

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