On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 15:34 +0000, Sam J Sharpe wrote: > 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 > Thanks, adding that file solved the problem. -- ======================================================================= Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. -- Kirk, "The return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
