wsdd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

wsdd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wsdd: command not found

Solutions to wsdd: command not found

How To Fix wsdd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wsdd is provided by wsdd package.

wsdd is:

This daemon is used to announce Linux Hosts to Windows 7+ computers for use in their File Manager network browsing, by using the Windows Services Discovery Protocol.

This protocol is a local network segment procotol, which is multicasted on udp/3072, and incoming on tcp/5357 on the 239.255.255.250/ff02::c multicast addresses. It DOES have security issues, but it is designed for use in a trusted environment inside a firewall.

Its quite useful for Samba, taking over from WINS and the Samba nmbd daemon. Installing this restores the Network browsing functionality to Windows 7+ Samba clients.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install wsdd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install wsdd.

sudo apt -y install wsdd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install wsdd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wsdd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.