[Gllug] Linux -> windows issues

[Matthew Cooke]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 23:25 +0100, Matthew Cooke wrote:
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>>The linux boxes and windows boxes are all on the same switch. MDNS is 
>>being used for discovery and the linux machines all discover each other. 
>>the windows machines neither discover each other OR the the linux 
>>machines. The system is peer-to-peer so there is no client/server in the 
>>traditional sense.
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>>All the machines can ping each other yes. I don't have much experience 
>>debugging multicast problems so I don't know if I can test the 
>>224.0.0.251 multicasting in windows directly.
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>>Matt.
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>How can they ping each other when they don't know they are there? I
>assume the first paragraph means the Window boxes cannot see the
>network.
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I'm not being very clear am I! I know which machines are on the network 
and their IP addresses so I can manually ping one from another. I'm 
trying to use mDNS so they can "auto"discover the other machines this is 
so that they the software that runs on them can automatically configure 
the machines to work togethor correctly and dynamically handle machines 
being added or removed. Traditional networking between all the machines 
is fine (they can ping each other, access file shares etc,) The only 
problem I have is that Windows XP machines aren't receiving the 
zeroconf/rendevous/mdns broadbcast packets/events and I have no idea why 
- i've tried messing with IGMP registry entries but according to MSDN, 
XP should be IGMP enabled out of the box. (I believe it's IGMP that 
allows the machines to handle ndns).

I thought maybe someone might know some other way to test 
zeroconf/rendezvous/mDNS on windows or have got it working.

Matt.
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