On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:13 +0100, Tim Niemueller wrote:
Adam Tkac schrieb:
IpSec and IPP as services don't sound very much like desktop applications.
They do if you have a desktop machine sharing a printer. If the system-config-printer tool would open up the IPP port automatically when you share a printer that would be fine though.
Does the "sharee" also need the IPP ports open? So a user would need to explicitly set "show printers shared by other systems" in s-c-printers--it couldn't be the default.
ISTR some discussion in the past of why it was a bad idea for s-c-printers to open and close the ipp and lpr ports. (Don't have a link handy, but I think there was a BZ about this issue).
Definitely. Also mdns enabled on desktop doesn't make sence for me. I think only ssh will be enabled on both server and desktop.
DNS-SD over mDNS is used by Avahi for service discovery. Especially on a desktop/laptop you want to see the services other machines announce on the network like file shares (someone going to solve the firewall issue here?), VNC, printer etc.. I'd consider Avahi to be important for the "just works" network experience.
Tim