On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:56:09AM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote: > Trent Lloyd wrote: > >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 > >> > > > > > Keeping in mind that I have just looked at the Debian packages - not at > compiling the latest from source if newer. > > Avahi-daemon (0.6.3-3 unstable) requires dbus >= 0.6.0 and dbus 0.60-5 > is in unstable. However, much of Gnome (1:2.10.2.5 testing) with Etch > requires dbus-1 (0.23.4-8 testing) - i.e. selecting dbus will remove > most of Gnome testing. I assume that also selecting Gnome unstable > would bring it back, but I don't want to get that far into unstable > :-) I've got enough issues with the exposure I have and really want to > get back to my ObjC development projects.
OK so testing still has 0.23, thats unfortunate as we do not support that. Sorry! Cheers, Trent > > Thanks, > 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
