Re: [Banshee-List] iTunes, banshee and DAAP

[Dominik Sandjaja <Dominik dadadom de>]

Hi,

Patrick van Staveren schrieb:
> I don't have the setup to test it on now, but I used to (a few months  
> ago) run banshee on a linux box, itunes on a windows box, OpenVPN'd  
> the windows box into the network that the linux box is in and it  
> worked great.
>
> OpenVPN is a pure IP tunnel - you can do whatever over an OpenVPN  
> connection that you can do over a regular IP connection.  Thus, mDNS  
> and anything else will work :) Michi - just hit up openvpn.org and  
> read - it's far from hard to set up a quick vpn :)
>   

from http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users#FAQ :
By default Avahi will not consider a Point-To-Point link (such as a VPN 
link) for mDNS traffic. This has multiple reasons...

There is a workaround, which doesn't seem to work for me, I always get 
dozens of "send message failed"-messages on the debug output of avahi. 
Well, for now I share my music over a samba share, which works flawlessly.
> Wish I could shed some more light on the subject.  Have you tried  
> verifying that DAAP is working properly?  Maybe try using Tangerine  
> and various DAAP browser software to see if you can see your own  
> shares?  I don't have much knowledge on the DAAP subject, other than I  
> know it'll work over a VPN :)
>   
DAAP itself works, I tested it with telnet, but the mDNS/rendezvous 
protocol, this magic "zeroconf" seems to be the problem :). I will 
survive...
> For more info on DAAP, Tangerine, and maybe a test util or two, check  
> out www.snorp.net
>   
Checking it out, thanks.

Greetings,
Dominik