On Saturday 14 January 2012 21:43:00 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/14/2012 04:19 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > If running mediatomb avoids the necessity for Avahi, > > can you give a concrete example of a situation where Avahi_is_ needed? > > I did. "If two PCs were running a collaborative editor, like gobby, > they'll use mDNS to find each other. Chat clients such as GNOME's and > iChat will locate other chat clients on the LAN if configured to do so. > Rhythmbox will use mDNS to locate DAAP servers for media." > > CUPS will also use Avahi to locate networked printers. Pulseaudio will use Avahi for audio streaming over a LAN. HTH, :-) Marko