On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:45 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:38:05PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:11 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > Perhaps I misread the original comment - but it was the suggestion of
> > having avahi running by default.
> >
> > Do you mean having that be the case from the livecd or from the package
> > itself.
> >
> > If the former, then you're right it's a side issue. I thought the
latter
> > was being discussed which is why I brought up that report.
>
> I think both are being discussed somewhat. It'd be nice to do it
> everywhere, so that the regular install does match somewhat the livecd
> case, but as a fallback, just doing it on the livecd is less
> contentious. I'd certainly like to see it on the livecd, and then I'd
> also like to see us work toward having it on regular installs too, in a
> way that will keep most parties happy.
I don't know if this is related to Avahi or not, but with the default
firewall rules I can't see my friend's printers shared via his Mac
system. As soon as I turn off the firewall, the printers show up in
the GNOME printing dialog. It would be nice if this just worked
correctly out-of-the-box and in the LiveCD case without needing to
fiddle with firewall rules.
This isn't the only thing that doesn't work by default, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/Firewall
Opening up avahi's port is a first step, having better firewall support
in applications is something I'm discussing with a few people (including
the system-config-firewall maintainer).
Cheers