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

[Barney <barney dalton gmail com>]

On 11/9/05, Artem Baguinski <femistofel gmail com> wrote:

On 09/11/05, Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org> wrote:

> You should also check that your IP addresses and netmasks are set up so
> that the machines are in the same subnet.  Since the laptop is
> 192.168.1.67, it should have a netmask of 255.255.255.0, and the XP
> machine should be 192.168.1.x with the same netmask.

And you should ensure that the firewall doesn't block udp traffic
to/from mDNS broadcast address 224.0.0.251 port 5353. I use
firestarter on my linux box and it doesn't have gui to do that - I had
to add a couple of lines to its config file (see
http://www.artm.org/2005/11/09/firestarter-vs-mdns/ ).

Both machines have (192.168.1.x) IP addresses - handed out by dhcp running on the router, both have 255.255.255.0 netmasks. iTunes on the XP machine can see the share music from rhythmbox on the Linux box so I think the network is ok. I don't  have  a firewall installed on the Linux box (to the best of my knowledge) but  how would I go about verifying that there isn't some bit of code somwhere doing some blocking? From the lack of activity in the avahi-daemon log it would suggest that these UDP broadcast packets are being filtered somewhere in the Linux boxe's network stack.

Thanks for all the help so far, hope I'm not boring people,
Barney