Hi Thanks for your reply. As I said in my original post, when I took the laptop to work (i.e., placed it on the same subnet as my mac), rhythmbox worked perfectly. It's the remote functionality I am trying to achieve here.
Just in case you are wondering, the dance using 3689->4689->3689 has to do with the fact that iTunes won't connect directly to port 3689 on a remote machine. It has to be fooled into thinking it is connecting to the local subnet. Incidentally, ourtunes manages to get this working---so it IS possible. I just want to do it with our good old rhythmbox (because then I can play AAC files using the gstreamer plugin---the playback functionality on ourtunes is minimal). On Sun, 2006-19-03 at 12:06 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: Can you set up a network without the use of ssh as a way to test whether > rhythmbox can talk to Rendezvous directly? I would start with that. > > sri > > > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 11:21 -0800, ........ ....... wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there any way to get rhythmbox to recognize an iTunes library over a > > ssh tunnel? I am using rhythmbox 0.9.2. > > > > I have a PowerMac at work serving my CD collection via iTunes. At home I > > have an eMac (desktop) and a Linux laptop. > > > > I can use my eMac at home to listen to my iTunes collection that sits at > > work. It involves 1) a ssh tunnel mapping office port 3689 to home port > > 4689, and 2) a program called Network (formerly Rendezvous) Beacon, > > which maps home port 4689 to home port 3689 using daap. > > > > When I try doing the same using avahi, I can't get it to work. First of > > all, I can confirm that when I take the laptop to work, it can discover > > the iTunes service and I can listen to the music hosted on my mac using > > rhythmbox on my laptop. So the sharing works perfectly there (thanks!) > > > > Now, when I use my laptop to try the same port-mapping trick (as for my > > eMac) at home, it doesn't work. Here is what I do > > > > ssh -f -L 4689:127.0.0.1:3689 -N workcomputer > > avahi-publish-service iTunes _daap._tcp 4689 > > > > This didn't work---nothing comes up on rhythmbox. Then I tried > > > > ssh -f -L 3689:127.0.0.1:4689 -N 127.0.0.1 > > > > This didn't make rhythmbox recognize it either. I asked the avahi folks > > about this and they said that rhythmbox might be filtering out shares on > > the localhost. If so, is there a workaround that allows me to listen to > > my iTunes music sitting at work from a remote location? > > > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Pausanias > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
