Trent Lloyd wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:07:31PM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote:
Lee Cullens wrote:
Avahi scope?
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P4 with Debian Etch (testing), kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10), Gnome
desktop
PMac G5 running OS X Tiger (10.4.3)
New to Linux and putting up a no doze Linux & Mac LAN
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I've installed netatalk on my Linux box, and now can access and move
files into and out of a shared directory on the Linux box from my Mac.
In order to discover the Mac and a printer on the Mac from the Linux
box, I found instructions that included installing mdnsresponder and
howl-tools on the Linux box.
The Debian packages included mdnsresponder but not howl-tools which I
understand isn't being maintained anymore. As I'm sure you already
know, I instead found Avahi on Debian and that's not the 0.6.3
version. So in reading through the material for Avahi I see an item
in the FAQ about not running multiple mDNS responders.
I'm not exactly sure, but it seems to me that if I use Avahi I should
not also use mdnsresponder - i.e. that Avahi replaces the combination
of mdnsresponder and howl-tools. Is this layman interpretation correct?
If so, I guess my next step is to figure out just what I need of Avahi
and try to build and install the latest 0.6.3 version, rather than the
Debian 0.6.1 version that might have a problem?
Thank you,
Lee C
Never mind. I found where Avahi conflicts with mdnsresponder. The
problem is that if I were to remove mdnsresponder and install Avahi then
I would need dbus rather than dbus1 which would in turn wipe out at
least the majority of my testing version Gnome desktop. It may be that
such could be done with the unstable Gnome desktop, but I don't want
move whole-hog to unstable because that would undoubtedly lead to more
issues. Yet another catch-22 :-(
That has nothing to do with mdnsresponder.
Avahi requires dbus 0.3 or above, debian probably still has 0.2 in
testing and so you cannot install it without upgrading it, which can
only be done in i think unstable, maybe even experimental.
The conflicts with mdnsresponder are due to the need to listen on the
same port and that sort of thing. Avahi can replace both mdnsresponder
and howl-utils (well, i dont know exactly of the utils in howl-utils,
but we have most usefull things, publish-service, etc) You can even make
use of the Bonjour or Howl API using programs using our compatability
layer.
Trent
Guess I didn't word it very well. I meant that "if I were to install
Avahi as an alternative to mdnsresponder" I hit the dbus version issue
and don't want to go whole-hog unstable (even if that is enough).
Testing (Etch) is enough exposure for me, but I'll pull the occasional
package from unstable if I think I really need it and there aren't too
many consequences :-)
I'm back to my research trying to find a way to "discover" my Mac and a
printer on my Mac from my Debian Etch box. The Debian box has netatalk
installed and from my Mac I can see it and share files.
I'm happy to see Avahi jumping into the void and look forward to it
settling down in at least testing. There is a Avahi-client package in
Debian testing, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it to discover
my Mac :-(
Thanks for the reply,
Lee C
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