[avahi] Avahi scope?

[Lee Cullens]

Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:55:57PM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote:
>   
>> Trent Lloyd wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:07:31PM -0500, Lee Cullens wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Lee Cullens wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> Avahi scope?
>>>>> ...................................................................
>>>>> 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 :-( 
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> That has nothing to do with mdnsresponder.
>>>
>>> Avahi requires dbus 0.3 or above, debian probably still has 0.2 in
>>> testing and so you cannot install it without upgrading it, which can
>>> only be done in i think unstable, maybe even experimental.
>>>
>>> The conflicts with mdnsresponder are due to the need to listen on the
>>> same port and that sort of thing.  Avahi can replace both mdnsresponder
>>> and howl-utils (well, i dont know exactly of the utils in howl-utils,
>>> but we have most usefull things, publish-service, etc) You can even make
>>> use of the Bonjour or Howl API using programs using our compatability
>>> layer.
>>>
>>> Trent
>>>  
>>>       
>> Guess I didn't word it very well.   I meant that "if I were to install 
>> Avahi as an alternative to mdnsresponder" I hit the dbus version issue 
>> and don't want to go whole-hog unstable (even if that is enough).  
>> Testing (Etch) is enough exposure for me, but I'll pull the occasional 
>> package from unstable if I think I really need it and there aren't too 
>> many consequences :-)  
>>
>> I'm back to my research trying to find a way to "discover" my Mac and a 
>> printer on my Mac from my Debian Etch box.  The Debian box has netatalk 
>> installed and from my Mac I can see it and share files.
>>
>> I'm happy to see Avahi jumping into the void and look forward to it 
>> settling down in at least testing.   There is a Avahi-client package in 
>> Debian testing, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it to discover 
>> my Mac :-(
>>     
>
> Can you tlel me what version the DBUS package is?
> It's quite possible avahi will work fine just the package from unstable
> wont.
>
> as for avahi, you could install avahi-daemon and avahi-utils and run
> avahi-discover.
>
> Trent
>
>   
>> Thanks for the reply,
>> Lee C
>>
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>   
Keeping in mind that I have just looked at the Debian packages - not at 
compiling the latest from source if newer.

Avahi-daemon (0.6.3-3 unstable) requires dbus >= 0.6.0 and dbus 0.60-5 
is in unstable.  However, much of Gnome (1:2.10.2.5 testing) with Etch 
requires dbus-1 (0.23.4-8 testing) - i.e. selecting dbus will remove 
most of Gnome testing.  I assume that also selecting Gnome unstable 
would bring it back, but I don't want to get that far into unstable 
:-)   I've got enough issues with the exposure I have and really want to 
get back to my ObjC development projects.

Thanks,
Lee C