Andreas is posting a lot of stuff about Howl, which is a nice coincidence: I am trying to work out how to publish a networked printer so my Panther clients can see it.
“Howl also provides simple sample applications, e.g. for announcing (mDNSPublish) and browsing (mDNSBrowse) services on the local network. Now if only all the applications were service discovery enabled. Then you could simply announce e.g. your SMTP server via mDNSPublish “default mail gateway” _smtp._tcp. 25, and any service-discovery-enabled mail program could simply browse for ‘_smtp._tcp.’ when having to send an email, and thus no user intervention is required for configuring an SMTP server. This would be especially useful for wireless networks.”
I haven’t any success with the examples yet, and that always worries me.
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