[Server-devel] How do the clients find a School Server in appliance mode

2013-12-30 Thread Braddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I was introduced to XSCE Appliance Mode, which raises some great possibilities, but also some difficulties which need to be addressed, and which Internet-in-a-Box appliances have already faced. If a school server is installed on a network in

Re: [Server-devel] How do the clients find a School Server in appliance mode

2013-12-30 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 08:26:33PM -0800, Braddock wrote: [...] A big problem we've faced with IIAB appliances on XO deployments is that the OLPC OS does not turn on mDNS name resolution by default in /etc/nsswitch.conf (although the necessary software is installed). On the XO laptop, all