[avahi] Getting avahi to work over a ssh tunnel

[Trent Lloyd]

You should be able to use avahi-publish-service to emulate this I
suspect, note that rhythmbox may be filtering out services from the
local host intentionally tho.

Cheers,
Trent

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:44:58AM -0000, 5uj34k502 at sneakemail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any way to get avahi to work over a ssh tunnel?
> 
> I have a PowerMac at work serving my CD collection via iTunes. At home I have an eMac (desktop) and a Linux laptop.
> 
> I can use my eMac at home to listen to my iTunes collection at work. It involves 1) a ssh tunnel mapping office port 3689 to home port 4689, and 2) a program called Network (formerly Rendezvous) Beacon, which maps home port 4689 to home port 3689 using daap.
> 
> The question is, can I do the same on Linux using avahi? First of all, I can confirm that when I take the laptop to work, it can discover the iTunes service and I can listen to the music hosted on my mac using rhythmbox on my laptop. So avahi works perfectly there (thanks!)
> 
> Now, when I use my laptop to try the same port-mapping trick (as for my eMac) at home, however, avahi doesn't discover any services at all. When I run avahi-discover, absolutely nothing comes up.
> 
> So, what's the trick to getting this to work? I feel like I am so close..
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Pausanias
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.