On 10/16/2014 05:49 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:17 PM, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 12, 2014, at 7:25, Dan McGhee <beesn...@grm.net> wrote: >> >>> I want to ultimately use all my external and salvaged hard drives on both >>> my (soon to be completely) linux laptop and my iMac. That part is simple. >>> Back up what I don't want to lose and then reformat those drives. >> >> For over a decade, I’ve had windows, OS X, Solaris, and Linux environment >> and would use samba for all of it. >> >> However, if you are scrapping windows, there is bonjour you can use with OS >> X and linux. Bonjour (zeroconf) is what you may want if only needing to >> deal with a linux OS and Mac OS X. >> >> Now, if you ever need to use windows, you can install a bonjour client for >> that, as well. >> >> There’s nothing wrong with using Samba and linux kernel’s CIFS between Mac >> OS X and Linux, but if you aren’t going to have a Windows machine involved, >> no need. No need to have that and a samba server configured for WINS either. >> >> Keep it simple and use only what you need. Bonjour (zeroconf), or use some >> of what others have stated. I use an iMac, powerbook, multiple windows >> machines, and multiple linux machines with samba just fine. You have it >> quite a bit simpler, so you may want to investigate what I have mentioned >> with bonjour. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> William Harrington > > Thank you for this, William. I don’t know why, but what you said didn’t > register in the “grey cells” until just a little while ago. > > Yes, I want to keep things very simple and do only what I need to. Right > now, I’m using LFS-7.5 without an X environment. My plan originally was to > build a total distro from 7.6. That may even be delayed because of the UEFI > stuff that I’m doing. > > However, it is important to me now to share files between my Mac and laptop. > I the only thing I know about Avahi and bonjour is that they are zeroconf > services. In looking at the build page of Avahi, it looks like I need an X > environment to have it build and run. That’s too much to do with my current > plans. I think I’ll have to settle for only NFS and wait to do the other > things until I build my whole distro. > > I just wanted to acknowledge your thoughts. I’ll hold on to them for the > future however immediate that future is. > > Dan > >
If you only need the DNS-SD service, then you don't need an X environment. GTK+2 and GTK+3 are needed by some of the desktop packages that integrate with Avahi for DNS-SD capabilities as well for some GUI programs provided in the avahi source. libdaemon should be enough for the avahi-daemon (main DNS-SD service program) to get built. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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