[avahi] Avahi scope?

[Lee Cullens]

Lee Cullens wrote:
> Avahi scope?
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> 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 :-( 

Lee C