[avahi] Avahi scope?

[Lee Cullens]

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
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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