[Xastir] Samba Peculiarity

[Bob Nielsen]

On Feb 11, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

>
> Bonjour is apparently a client that allows OSX and Losedows  
> machines to use
> CUPS servers on the linux box without needing Samba to fake out  
> Microsoft
> Networking.  We already have one OSX box in the house that talks to  
> the
> CUPS server on my machine so that all the printers are on one  
> server.  I
> didn't know that the component of OSX that allowed that was called  
> "bonjour" --
> I just thought it was a CUPS client.

OS X does use CUPS as a print server.  Bonjour apparently is used to  
discover a number of network services, not just printers.  Per the  
help file:

Bonjour (formerly known as "Rendezvous") is an Apple protocol for  
discovering file, print, chat, music sharing, and other services on  
IP networks.