[avahi] Avahi scope?

[Sebastien Estienne]

On 1/15/06, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> 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.
debian sid contains dbus 0.6 and avahi 0.6.3

>
> 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
>
> >
> > Lee C
> >
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> Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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