Re: Rendezvous/mDNS/zeroconf in Nautilus

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:27:20PM +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been trying to get Rendezvous-compatible services discovery in
> Nautilus working, that should be in Gnome 2.8 (I use unstable on that 
> machine), as per upstream release notes.
> 
> I had no luck, however. Windows networks show up fine, as do my mDNS-
> enabled servers (two WWW and FTP testservers) in mDNSBrowse _http._tcp 
> and in the Rendezvous plugin for Internet Explorer (by Apple).
> 
> Is this supposed to work in sid Gnome? Any special packages I have
> to install?

No it won't work in sid's Gnome 2.8. It was decided not to build gnome-vfs2 
against howl, because that package was in a bad state (bad upstream library
versioning).

The new howl upstream release has fixed this. So it is possible that it will be
enabled again, when that version hits unstable.

  Sjoerd
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