D'oh - don't usually post from work so my mail isn't set up to reply from the right address! Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:29:36 +0000 From: Sam J Sharpe <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla [Making Progress] On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:53:40 -0600 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 16:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >> What I saw under F11 was icons for all the Fedora machines on the > > >> LAN including the one I am on and I would expect to be able to > > >> open the icon and login to the machine. You can do that using > > >> Places-> Connect to Server but then yo need to know in advance > > >> the machines name or ip address. Using Places->Network seems > > >> easier. > > >> > > > OK.... I got an F11 system up and running. And I now see what > > > you want. > > > > > > On the F11 system I bring up "Places->Network" and indeed there > > > are icons labeled "f11" and "f12". Clicking on the "f12" icon > > > brings up a login dialog which then results in an sftp connection. > > > > > > Now..... The reason you see this on F11 and not F12 is that F11 > > > is sending out MDNS query broadcasts and F12 is responding. > > *However*, > > > F12 is not sending out MDNS queries. I thought this was due to > > > the file /etc/sysconfig/network contained "NOZEROCONF=yes" but > > > changing it to "no" has had not effect. > > > > > > So, need to figure out how to get F12 to send MDNS queries..... > > > > > OK....this is most definitely a GNOME issue.... > > Well I ma embarrassed. You reminded me of a truth which confirms your > analysis. When I observed this phenomena in F11 my other machine was > running F12. So that changed the whole picture along the lines that > you have discovered. I am going to have to think further on this > matter. Your embarrassment triggered my curiousity ;o) I see machines running Mac OSX as you describe in Places->Network when on my corporate network. After some experimentation, I discovered that those machines displayed are the ones that are advertising "SFTP Transfer Service" via mDNS. Assuming you've got avahi-daemon running and your local firewall isn't denying it, try creating this file and see if your machines show up as you expect: [sam@work services]$ cat /etc/avahi/services/sftp.service <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name> <service> <type>_sftp-ssh._tcp</type> <port>22</port> </service> </service-group> Now what the difference is between Gnome and KDE, I don't know. Gnome seems to only be showing things that are in the "local" mDNS domain and advertising SFTP. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines