Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:19:45 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder Message-ID: <4353CF21.1040009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051017160356.GB13792@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <BF792547.3E4%chowse@charter.net> <20051017160356.GB13792@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDU88hb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgoiAJ4s0s+Es6hYkzsrfAXy2+saBi5zuwCfS83R v+5qgV8E0oVlamiidZ24Pc0= =aQrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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