On 1/15/06, Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. debian sid contains dbus 0.6 and avahi 0.6.3
> > 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 > > > > > 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 > -- Sebastien Estienne _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
