This daemon is part of the new Samba TNG suite.
The browserd daemon is designed to control all of the browsing services much like the Windows NT 'Browser' service. The tasks performed can include keeping the browse list, answering queries and synchronising browse lists with other browse list holders.
At the time of writing, it appears that nmbd still takes care of all browse list services.
This daemon should be run on a Samba server that is to hold a browse list (ie, if if you answered 'yes' to domain master = , local master = or preferred master = lines in your smb.conf).
samba(7),browserd(8),lsarpcd(8),samrd(8),smbd(8),nmbd(8),netlogond(8),svcctld(8),srvsvcd(8),winregd(8),wkssvcd(8),spoolssd(8),samedit(8),regedit(8)
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.org. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
This manual page (as incomplete as it is) was written by Matthew Geddes for The Samba Team.