[Rhythmbox-devel] Re: rhythmbox connecting to iTunes shared music on another machine

[Stefan Monnier <monnier iro umontreal ca>]

> I am using the rhythmbox package from Debian unstable. It installed avahi
> for me. I have two machines connected via a router. One machine is wireless
> running Debian/Linux and the other is XP. Most of my music is on the XP
> machine. If I run rhythmbox and share music then the XP/iTunes machine can
> see and play the music of the Linux box, but I can't get the Linux machine
> to see the XP machine's music. I have used netcat to send data from one
> machine to the other over UDP port 5353 which I think is needed by avahi and
> that works fine (after stopping avahi-daemon/iTunes). If I run
> avahi-discover on the linux box it doesn't list the XP box though so I'm
> guessing the problem is at the avahi level rather than the rhythmbox level.
> Any tips on howto debug futher?

Check firewall settings on your XP machine?


        Stefan