Em Quarta 03 Janeiro 2007 09:24, Lennart Poettering escreveu: Thanks for the help Lennart, obviously I'm very newbie:
> > > > That seems to be my event. I can't use avahi-browse to see the > > > > service though, nor zeroconf:/ in konqueror , nor a program called > > > > mdns-scan . I'm sure I'm just missing something simple. Any ideas ? > > > > Please advise what config info I can supply if needed. > > > > > > Please note that "avahi-browse -a" does not necessarily show all > > > services. If you specify the proper service type (i.e. something like > > > _ftp._tcp) it should show all matching services, however. > > > > OK, I tried 'avahi-browse _http._tcp' and 'avahi-browse _ftp._tcp' but > > no luck. > > You're doing this on the local machine? Yes. > > Do you have a firewall running, blocking port 5353? nmap both locally and via another machine on the lan seems to imply 5353 is open: /root> nmap -sU -p5353 10.101.43.10 Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-01-03 12:50 WET Interesting ports on 10.101.43.10: PORT STATE SERVICE 5353/udp open|filtered unknown MAC Address: 00:11:11:E3:CF:84 (Intel) > > Does "avahi-resolve yourhost.local" work? (Replace yourhost with your > local host name, of course) Now we may be getting somewhere. No, it doesn't work: /root> hostname linux-robert [linux-robert(root)] /root> /usr/local/bin/avahi-resolve -n linux-robert.local Failed to resolve host name 'linux-robert.local': Timeout reached > > Does "dig -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 yourhost.local" work? Nope: /root> dig -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 linux-robert.local ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 linux-robert.local ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > Did Avahi detect a suitable network interface? You should look for > "New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS" or similar in > syslog. Avahi doesn't really work if there's no network interface to send > data on. Avahi ignores non-ethernet interfaces, and those where > MULTICAST is disabled. I got the message: Jan 2 07:05:31 linux-robert avahi-daemon[3342]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. I think multicast is enabled, but if there's somewhere in /proc or something I can check let me know. /root> ifconfig eth0 Encapsulamento do Link: Ethernet Endereço de HW 00:11:11:E3:CF:84 inet end.: 10.101.43.10 Bcast:10.101.47.255 Masc:255.255.248.0 endereço inet6: fe80::211:11ff:fee3:cf84/64 Escopo:Link UP BROADCASTRUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1 RX packets:312534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:146720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:126001517 (120.1 Mb) TX bytes:31925929 (30.4 Mb) IRQ:169 > > > > Does KPF spit out any error message on STDERR? > > > > It gives me a dialog box saying 'success' on boot and also when adding > > adding a service. I see no kpf errors in the standard places, but I'm > > still looking. > > A dialog box saying "success"? What's the point of such a dialog? > > Lennart My guess is that since its a service allowing other machines to access a directory under /home , it lets you know that its been succesfully published when the desktop comes up. Really I don't need to use kpf - it just seemed like an easy way to test avahi . My goal here is to get my feet wet for a linux embedded project using avahi . Thanks! Robert -- Faster, better, cheaper - choose two of the above. - Old engineering proverb It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. - Another old engineering proverb _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
