Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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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"

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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