Assuming the firewall is set up OK, then firefly works temporarily with the internal MDNS server under fedora 8 when you strictly follow this procedure.
1) Turn on (or restart) M1001 and connect to LAN
2) Start (or stop and re-start) mt-daapd svn-1696
3) Connect to library and play to your hearts content.
This seems to be good for an hour or two, when the M1001 shudders to a halt and displays the dreaded message that no libraries have been found. Also, if you restart the M1001, it also tells you that it can’t find any libraries. When you stop and restart mt-daapd, it works again for a while.
Here’s a complete dump from the mt-daapd.log file (running debug level 0).
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Firefly Version svn-1696: Starting with debuglevel 0
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Warning: Could not load plugins
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Error opening plugin dir /usr/lib/firefly/plugins. Ignoring
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1696
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1696
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1696
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Starting rendezvous daemon
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Starting signal handler
2008-03-16 18:15:26 (b7eee6c0): Initializing database
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Registering rendezvous names
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Searching for interface eth1
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Searching for interface eth1
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Searching for interface eth1
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Serving 11438 songs. Startup complete in 2 seconds
2008-03-16 18:15:28 (b7eee6c0): Rescanning database
2008-03-16 18:15:44 (b7eee6c0): Starting playlist scan
2008-03-16 18:15:45 (b7eee6c0): Updating playlists
2008-03-16 18:15:47 (b7eee6c0): Scanned 11438 songs (was 11438) in 19 seconds
2008-03-16 19:39:04 (b74ecb90): Write error: Broken pipe
Ron – contact me at my personal email address if you’d like me to send detailed logs or detailed tcpdump traces. Have you any idea what’s causing me this grief?
Stefan