Wide Area Bonjour Network

MacDonaldsd · May 23, 2008, 02:39 PM

Hi,

Me and a few of my friends want to collaborate on a project and I was wondering if we could connect to each other using bonjour ?

We are all using a mac running leopard, but I can't find any easy way of doing it.

Consultant · May 23, 2008, 04:36 PM

What you might be thinking about is actually connect with iChat to the computer that has the project opened, and Share screen?

MacDonaldsd · May 24, 2008, 05:01 AM

iChat via AIM is a bit buggy for us, the screen sharing doesn't always work, which is strange because the video chat always does.

tyr2 · May 24, 2008, 05:49 AM

You can use Network Beacon to create a bonjour proxy to create a bridge between different bonjour networks.

MacDonaldsd · May 24, 2008, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tyr2

You can use Network Beacon to create a bonjour proxy to create a bridge between different bonjour networks.

How would I go about setting that up ? The application has no documentation so I am a bit confused.

MacsRgr8 · May 26, 2008, 04:03 PM

In short, there is no very easy way to configure Bonjour across subnets.

You'll have to setup some sort of mDNS Server where both computers can communicate with as a "Bonjour" server, like in Leopard Server's DNS server.
Or use something like iChat which uses online accounts.

Maybe something like Google Docs can help you out..?

tyr2 · May 30, 2008, 02:27 PM

Personally I'm not that clear on Network Beacon I just heard that people had used it previously.

I did once get a bonjour network going with hosts being able to connect from anywhere using OpenVPN on a third host.

I.e. Client Machine 1 -> VPN -> OpenVPN Host
And Client Machine 2 -> VPN -> OpenVPN Host

You must use a TAP based VPN (rather than a TUN network) as the multicast Bonjour packets are not forwarded by OpenVPN on a TUN network.

You should then configure the server mode to be 'server-bridge'. For example

server-bridge 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.5.30 192.168.5.40

This creates a VPN with 192.168.5.1 as the VPN server and each host joining the network gets an address in the 192.168.5.30-40 range.

Bonjour packets route fine over this network and I successfully used it to listen to my remote iTunes shares.

Every host you want to connect to the virtual bonjour network will need to join the VPN. I was using TunnelBlink to manage the VPN on the OS X clients.

Littleodie914 · May 30, 2008, 02:49 PM

If your project involves collaboration on any text documents, you might want to give SubEthaEdit a try.

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MacDonaldsd macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: London , UK	Wide Area Bonjour Network Hi, Me and a few of my friends want to collaborate on a project and I was wondering if we could connect to each other using bonjour ? We are all using a mac running leopard, but I can't find any easy way of doing it.
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MacsRgr8 macrumors 604 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Netherlands	In short, there is no very easy way to configure Bonjour across subnets. You'll have to setup some sort of mDNS Server where both computers can communicate with as a "Bonjour" server, like in Leopard Server's DNS server. Or use something like iChat which uses online accounts. Maybe something like Google Docs can help you out..? __________________ Steve Jobs. 1955 - 2011. My Hero.
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Consultant macrumors G5 Join Date: Jun 2007	What you might be thinking about is actually connect with iChat to the computer that has the project opened, and Share screen?
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May 24, 2008, 05:01 AM	#3
MacDonaldsd Thread Starter macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: London , UK	iChat via AIM is a bit buggy for us, the screen sharing doesn't always work, which is strange because the video chat always does.
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May 24, 2008, 05:49 AM	#4
tyr2 macrumors 6502a Join Date: May 2006 Location: Leeds, UK	You can use Network Beacon to create a bonjour proxy to create a bridge between different bonjour networks.
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May 30, 2008, 02:27 PM	#7
tyr2 macrumors 6502a Join Date: May 2006 Location: Leeds, UK	Personally I'm not that clear on Network Beacon I just heard that people had used it previously. I did once get a bonjour network going with hosts being able to connect from anywhere using OpenVPN on a third host. I.e. Client Machine 1 -> VPN -> OpenVPN Host And Client Machine 2 -> VPN -> OpenVPN Host You must use a TAP based VPN (rather than a TUN network) as the multicast Bonjour packets are not forwarded by OpenVPN on a TUN network. You should then configure the server mode to be 'server-bridge'. For example server-bridge 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.5.30 192.168.5.40 This creates a VPN with 192.168.5.1 as the VPN server and each host joining the network gets an address in the 192.168.5.30-40 range. Bonjour packets route fine over this network and I successfully used it to listen to my remote iTunes shares. Every host you want to connect to the virtual bonjour network will need to join the VPN. I was using TunnelBlink to manage the VPN on the OS X clients.
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