Hi Eric, I played with avahi a bit today and kind of made it work. Maybe I can help you get started. Make sure the packages avahi and avahi-tools are installed and avahi-daemon is turned on. Now, for each service that you want to publish, you'll need to add a .service file in /etc/avahi/services/. This blog entry describes how to do that for a web page: http://www.burtonini.com/blog/2006/Feb/11 . After you change any entries, you have to do a service avahi-daemon restart (on the server). To see if it worked, run avahi-browse -a on any machine on your network. There should be a line like this one: + eth0 IPv4 Levin's web page Web Site local There's also a simple gui, avahi-discover. The avahi.service man page (http://avahi.org/download/avahi.service.5.xml) describes the .service file format in a little more detail. Also, here's another post by the same guy with a .service file for sftp: http://www.burtonini.com/blog/2006/02/13/ (if you have sshd running, it probably provides an sftp-service, too). Does this help? If not, please give us some more detail on what you're trying to do with avahi.
