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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:47:20 -0500
From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
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Thread-Topic: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder - Solved
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Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder - Solved
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> David Kelly wrote:
> | On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:54:15AM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> |
> |>Hello List,
> |>
> |>I have a PowerMac G5, named "larry", which the 'Sharing' tab in System
> |>Preferences tells me that other machines on the network can access as
> |>'larry.local'.
> |>
> |>I have a FreeBSD 4.11 machine on the same subnet, named "moe" (no
> |>domain name), with NFS enabled.
> |>
> |>I can connect to the FreeBSD machine's share by using "Connect to
> |>Server" in OS X, but the machine doesn't show up in the Network pane
> |>of Finder.
> |>
> |>Can anyone point me to some resources where I can find a resolution to
> |>this?  --
> |
> |
> | I think others are pointing you in the wrong direction. MacOS uses
> | Bonjour to discover local net resources. Believe this may have been
> | previously called Rendezvous.
> | http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/
> |
> | net/howl and net/mDNSResponder mention Bonjour specifically.
> 
> Correct.  You can use howl to advertise an NFS service that MacOS X will
> auto-discover.  For example:
> 
> mDNSPublish NFS _nfs._tcp 2049 "NFS Share"
> 
> Joe

I finally got it working.  My error was not including "path=<path to share>"
when loading mDNSPublish.
Also customized this rc script to start publishing on boot.
http://tinyurl.com/4j8ze
Works fine on both computers, now.