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, Andisheh Mahdavi 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
