anyone using avahi?

[mwette]

I have searched "avahi" on this forum site and found that most avahi
posts have to do with getting around problems with updates. No one
seems to be using it. It seems to me that this is a very cool thing to
get running on a home network. [Apple provides Bonjour for WinXP.]

If anyone has knowledge, how do local services get injected into the
avahi service publications? Do I need to set up /etc/avahi/hosts and
services? There are no examples, and limited documentation, addressing
the set up of files in /etc/avahi/services.

Matt

[ThinkOpen]

I'm also interested in using Avahi on Fedora 7. Have you found any good resources/documentation about configuring it?

I posted this last about a year ago after FC5 was released with Avahi support built into Gnome:

http://patgardner.blogspot.com/2006/...discovery.html

Other than the in built Gnome support you can find a list of supported applications at http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users

The service discovery applet was quite nice, but it can't be built for Fedora 7 at the moment since there is no avahi/python package.

[ThinkOpen]

So my question is, what's the simplist way to connect, preferably using a GUI tool, to a printer being advertised via Bonjour on my home network? Is the avahi-discovery tool GUI or CLI?

It looks like avahi support for CUPS is coming soon (I think apple patched their version of CUPS for Bonjour): http://avahi.org/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode . So for now there is no way to discover printers via Bonjour on Fedora.

[ThinkOpen]

I've found that you can also access a printer attached to an Airport Express via JetDirect on port 9100. I guess I'll use that for now. Thanks for the help, it's appreciated.

[mwette]

If you google for nss-mdns you will find a package that can be used
to allow your Fedora boxes to get host lookups working through Bonjour
(e.g., "ping xxx.local" work where xxx is a host in the avahi hosts file.