Re: [Cooker] Zeroconf ( was : [DESKTOP DOMINATION] Eye Candy state of the art )

[Jan Ciger]

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Michael Scherer wrote:
> check with tcpdump if everything is working from a network point of
> view, check if there is no firewall, etc.

The firewall config is the same as on the desktop - as I said before,
the problem is intermittent, sometimes it works, sometimes not.

> You should not.
> But when i say handler, i talk of a file in /usr/share/apps/zeroconf,
> that will run something for this host.

Yes, I have understood that.

> Except for printer and disk, most of the time, there is nothing that
> could be integrated in mcc. 

The service browser - something like this:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/bonjour-py/bonjour-py.html

Or even better something like this:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/NetworkBeacon.html

> And for disk, this is more complex.
> We can detect webdav, nfs, sftp, ftp, but sftp, webdav and ftp would be
> better in nautilus and konqueror ( this already work ),

It works only for sftp and web, is webdav announced via Zeroconf - i.e.
does our Apache support that?

> and for nfs, it
> seems there is already something based on rpcinfo-flushed.

I wouldn't bother about nfs too much, because if you have that sort of
infrastructure, you are most likely not able to mount these shares
without authorization when you "discover" them.

Regards,

Jan


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