Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:03:16 -0500 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder Message-ID: <BF796DB4.424%chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <4353CF21.1040009@FreeBSD.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" Well, howl installed without error, but it doesn't seem to want to run...? Anybody have a clue? [root@moe:~]# mDNSPublish [assert] error: 61 (Connection refused) [assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_tcp_connect", line: 720 [assert] error: 22 (Invalid argument) [assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_tcp_close", line: 879 sw_discovery_init() failed [root@moe:~]# mDNSPublish -h [assert] error: 61 (Connection refused) [assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_tcp_connect", line: 720 [assert] error: 22 (Invalid argument) [assert] where: "socket.c", "sw_socket_tcp_close", line: 879 sw_discovery_init() failed
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