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jasonmc / forked-daapd

A re-write of the firefly media server (mt-daapd). It's released under GPLv2+. Please note that this git repository is a mirror of the official one at git://git.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd.git
http://blog.technologeek.org/2009/06/12/217
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Run without avahi #95

Closed vixducis closed 8 months ago

vixducis commented 11 years ago

I'm trying to setup forked-daapd, but i'd prefer it if i could run it without avahi (or rather define my own avahi service instead of using the dbus api).

The reason is that i want a netatalk share for my time machine backups and a samba share for the symbolic link support (netatalk doesn't support symlinks). Those two are defined as different services in avahi. To make that work, i have to disable avahi's dbus api, or else netatalk tends to take over all the services (osx prefers afp over smb).

If I now try to start forked-daapd, it just doesn't. Forked-daapd requires avahi's dbus api to be enabled and running. Is there a way to succesfully start forked-daapd without avahi's dbus enabled?

elwertk commented 11 years ago

Works without problems for me (forked daapd, netatalk for afp and samba) with this little tweak:

/etc/avahi/services# more cifs.service
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">

<service-group>
    <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h-SERVER</name>
    <service>
        <type>_smb._tcp</type>
        <port>445</port>
    </service>
    <service>
         <type>_device-info._tcp</type>
         <port>0</port>
         <txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>
    </service>
</service-group>

This will enable to distinguish between afp and smb services. AFP will announce itself as YOURSERVERNAME and smb shares as YOURSERVER-NAME in finder on your mac. Also timemachine setup works fine if the share is configured correctly.