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Apple Releases Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3
MacDailyNews is reporting that Apple has released Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3. From the article: "Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers."
You're a moron. Read about ZeroConf a little bit before you troll, kay?
-Kurt
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When my neighbor's daughter launches iTunes, her library shows up in my iTunes, and I can play them. Note that my network is WEP-enabled and MAC filtered, and I'm not part of her network
You might be WEP-enabled and MAC-filtered, but that doesn't mean you aren't on the same network. (WEP and MAC filtering have nothing to do with Bonjour services specifically.) Bonjour works on a subnet, not over a WAN; getting it to work across separate subnets requires special configuration.
You two are on the same network.
Mikey-San
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It's kind of one of those products that you don't think you have a use for, until you use it accidentally. Then it strikes you as being really handy.
I didn't remember that it existed when a friend brought a PowerBook over to my house and was sitting in the living room, plugged into my LAN; a while later he asked to print something. I said "sure, go for it" figuring he'd put it on a flash drive or something and I'd print it for him, or he'd email it to me. But no, he just sent it to my shared laser printer.
It's also how Apple products do a lot of their "sharing" magic, i.e., seeing other people's photo and audio libraries on your computer.
It's kind of a subtle technology, it's not going to wow people (my friend didn't even understand why what he did was interesting, he just selected the printer from the list in the dialog box), but it works pretty well.
I'd love to see it get better supported on Linux.
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This is amazing. Am I the only guy here who actually likes controlling his network in an orderly and well managed manner?
Maybe, just maybe, I don't want devices jumping onto my network and configuring themselves any way they like.
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And that's why you're supposed to fill in the "location" field when you use CUPS to share the printer (presumably other protocols have a similar thing).
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No, they were absolutely *wrong* to do so.
I myself am in the process of replacing one of these poor design decisions with a brand new AD in a company that is about 50% Mac OS X and 50% Windows 2K/XP/2K3. The arrogant asshats who built the original AD never consulted with the people responsible for over half the computers in the company that run Mac OS X. Not to mention the fact that just about every networkable printer that's come out in the past couple of years supports mDNS/Rendezvous/Bonjour/Zeroconf right out of the box, and will also have problems with using a ".local" AD.
It's interesting that you claim the usage of ".com" addresses for AD causes problems, especially since the ".com" root DN convention is not only recommended by Microsoft, but has been in common usage for LDAP directories for quite a bit longer than Active Directory has been available on the market.
Pointing the Macs at the AD's DNS system doesn't solve the problem, because mDNS assumes that anything ".local" will be found through the Multicast DNS system (at least, prior to 10.3.4), so the ".local" request never makes it to the specified AD server's DNS. Apple had to go out of their way to work around the problem because of so many MCSE asshats who don't know an fscking thing about interoperability...which is to say, most of them.