On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:55:57PM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote: > Trent Lloyd wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:07:31PM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote: > > > >>Lee Cullens wrote: > >> > >>>Avahi scope? > >>>................................................................... > >>>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 > >>>................................................................... > >>> > >>>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 :-(
Can you tlel me what version the DBUS package is? It's quite possible avahi will work fine just the package from unstable wont. as for avahi, you could install avahi-daemon and avahi-utils and run avahi-discover. Trent > > Thanks for the reply, > Lee C > > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi -- Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bur.st Networking Inc. _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
