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Say Bonjour to the LinkStation

March 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Linux, Macintosh

The one thing missing from my LinkStation was the ability to access it by name, so I needed to add Bonjour support. I couldn’t find anything already available, so I built Howl, an open source implementation of mDNSResponder.

For anyone interested, I uploaded the MIPS version here. Since I have a MIPS-based LinkStation, that’s the only one I built. Of course you need to install OpenLink firmware before you can use it.

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  • 1 Dick Davies (1 comments.) // Mar 14, 2006 at 7:21 am

    You star - perfect timing too - I just flashed openlink last night.

    Saw the NFS howto you linked to on macmegasite, that’s exactly what I needed.

    Cheers!

  • 2 number 9 // Aug 11, 2006 at 9:13 am

    links from Technoratis terrifying doing it from XP). Somehow /dev/console isn’t created, which has, er, interesting consequences but is easily fixed . Adding NFS was a doddle (keeping uids in sync is another story but what’s new). Multicast DNS works when it feels like it (mDNSresponder ships with a handy admin tool called ‘kill -9’); might play with the toolchain and have a go at rolling my own. Disappointed that the eMac doesn’t do

  • 3 video playing from linkstation on OS X - Linkstation 2 (mipsel) - The Linkstation Community Forum // Mar 19, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Kramer auto Pingback[...] # Posted: 10 May 2006 00:36 getQuotation(’apfrod’); Thanks for very fast replies! I went for NFS as it is more generally useful to me, and I am already on openlink I followed the instructions on http://homepages.enterprise.net/jnm/buffalo/nfs.html Performance now is near perfect! I am now going to try adding bonjour to the mix: http://mcdevzone.com/2006/03/04/say-bonjour-to-the-linkstation [...]

  • 4 Henri Bergius: Weblog // Nov 22, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    links from Technoratior FireWire disks, that is. I know that if I need to plug something in, I wouldn’t do it. So, my home OpenLink-powered NAS box to rescue! Making Time Machine talk to it required some tweaks, including enabling “unsupported volumes” in TIme Machine andinstalling Howl on the LinkStation. The result is quite cool: while backups take a long time to make, they start automatically when I open the laptop at home. And the Howl setup also makes my N800 Media Player automatically find music from the LinkStation.