Comments on: Advertising Linux Services via Avahi/Bonjour

By: OpenSolaris + TimeMachine backup + network discovery « Matt Connolly’s Blog

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:33:32 +0000

[...] If you’re interested in advertising other services so that they are discoverable by the Mac, this is a great article (it’s for linux, but the avahi side of things is the same using avahi-bridge): Benjamin Sherman » Advertising Linux Services via Avahi/Bonjour. [...]

By: Install AFP with SSL

Install AFP with SSL — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:34:57 +0000

[...] might also want to advertise the server with Bonjour. I followed these [...]

By: Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers | Morph3ous’s Weblog

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:20:40 +0000

[...] the XML files that tell MDNS what to advertise. (Found this information from here, here, and [...]

By: Setting up a home NAS using OpenSolaris and ZFS | Morph3ous’s Weblog

Setting up a home NAS using OpenSolaris and ZFS | Morph3ous’s Weblog — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:42:21 +0000

[...] the XML files that tell MDNS what to advertise. (Found this information from here, here, and [...]

By: benjamin

benjamin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:04:53 +0000

Thanks for commenting!

You are very correct, I should probably update this post to reference my update post about just that topic. ( http://holyarmy.org/2008/11/bonjour-avahi-addendum/ )

Cheers!

By: aj Slater

aj Slater — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:54:26 +0000

Actual mac servers combine all the services into one service group with the same name. This lets the leopard finder combine like services into one icon. This is most apparent when you have afp, samba (avahi), and samba broadcasting its NetBIOS name. If you make them all one service group with the same name (same as the NetBIOS name ‘%h’) The Leopard finder will show only one icon and preferentially use afp over samba over finding samba via NetBIOS.

Also you can specify your finder icon for a service group like so:
http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2008/04/06/avahi-finder-icons/

By: Ubuntu and Mac OS X Integration - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:36:44 +0000

[...] systems running Avahi or Macs. I’d installed Avahi earlier and used some service definitions from this article and this blog post to advertise Samba and HTTP. In addition, after installing Firefly, I’d [...]

By: matt

matt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:23:58 +0000

If you want gui, you can see all the linux advertised services from a Mac using Bonjour Browser
http://www.tildesoft.com

By: benjamin

benjamin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:26:17 +0000

Farhad,

See my latest post for a better way to list services: http://holyarmy.org/2008/11/bonjour-avahi-addendum/

But regarding SSH showing up, it doesn’t in Finder’s Bonjour view, but I was able to see it using the command-line program dns-sd in Terminal.

$ dns-sd -L myserver _ssh

Hope that helps!

Ref:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dns-sd.1.html

By: Benjamin Sherman » Bonjour Avahi Addendum

Benjamin Sherman » Bonjour Avahi Addendum — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:23:56 +0000

[...] while back I wrote about advertising Linux services via Avahi/Bonjour. Since then I’ve made a few changes to my [...]