Network Neighbourhood

Network Neighborhood is the Microsoft Windows name for a way/method to browse the Local Area Network. "Network Neighborhood" has become "My Network Places" in Windows XP and "Computers Near Me" in Windows Vista and 7. The function remains the same.

KDE Equivalent
in Konqueror (the File Manager / Web Browser used in KDE ) type: lan://localhost also: fish:// and you should see a list of computers that your computers sees.

It isn't set up by default most of the time... so you will need to start the service Lisa. KDE has a kcontrol part for setting up lisa, so it shouldn't be too hard to set up. You will need root access !

Gnome Equivalent
In Nautilus type smb:// to the address bar and your workgroup should pop-up.

CIFS/Samba
Network Neighborhood uses the CIFS protocol for discovery of computers on the local network (as does Samba), so Samba can also be used to identify and communicate with other clients on the local network.