[plug] WA Govenment iPads for year 1 and 2 students

[William Kenworthy]

Do you have "avahi" running? (its a service)
and in 

moriah ~ # ls -al /etc/avahi/services/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  200 Feb  3 14:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  176 Feb  3 14:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  988 Aug 24  2011 AirPrint-Epson-RAW.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  978 Aug 24  2011 AirPrint-Epson.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1075 Feb  3 14:19 sftp-ssh.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1071 Feb  3 14:19 ssh.service
moriah ~ # 


avahi provides the bonjour interface for apple zero config.  I think in
the past there was an actual bonjour package but thats gone from gentoo
these days.

moriah ~ # esearch avahi
[ Results for search key : avahi ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]

*  media-plugins/gmpc-avahi
      Latest version available: 11.8.16
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 298 kB
      Homepage:    http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/GMPC_PLUGIN_AVAHI
      Description: This plugin discovers avahi enabled mpd servers
      License:     GPL-2

*  net-dns/avahi
      Latest version available: 0.6.30-r1
      Latest version installed: 0.6.30-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 1,214 kB
      Homepage:    http://avahi.org/
      Description: System which facilitates service discovery on a local
network
      License:     LGPL-2.1

*  sec-policy/selinux-avahi [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 2.20110726
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 574 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/
      Description: SELinux policy for avahi
      License:     GPL-2
 
moriah ~ #

Its possible you are using a generic service file, whereas I created the
ones shown here?

BillK



On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 09:07 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> On 24/02/12 00:00, Alexander Hartner wrote:
> > You got instruction on how to connect the iPad to that printer. It is definitely not finding my printer on my network. Do you have the Bonjour configuration for debian on how to publish it ?
> >