Re: What driives me crazy about bugzilla [Making Progress]

Sam J Sharpe wrote:

Adding that file to the f12 side but not the f11 side will show an
icon for f12 on the f12 side and permit sftp access.

Adding that file to both f12 and f122 will show icons for both on the
f12 side and allow sftp access to both.

So, good job...great catch.

But, of course, that just shows the inconsistencies in the various
implementations...and raises another question. From this test, it
would seem that the KDE implementation will send its own MDNS query
and ignore the "defaults" in the services directory. But, even if
GNOME does use the files in the services directory it seems to be
ignoring the ssh.service file that exists. Neither f11 nor f12
system offers ssh as a service under GNOME. However, KDE in both f11
and f12 offers ssh and sftp regardless of what is in the services
directory.


noo.... you mis-understand what that file does. Neither Gnome or KDE is
checking that file at all.

Ah yes, of course. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that....
Creating the sftp.service file for Avahi makes Avahi advertise the
service is available when responding to an mDNS query. The machine
(whether you're using Gnome or KDE) is not advertising sftp unless that
is configured.

Yes.... But, I think, is where the confusion came in.

Even without the sftp.service file F11 would indicate sftp service
availability. But, in both F11 and F12 there does exist a ssh.service
file. So, apparently, the F11 client would presume that sftp service is
also available since that is the same port as ssh. Now, it seems the
F12 GNOME client only displays sftp if it is explicitly indicated in the
response.
KDE is obviously doing an mDNS query (as is Gnome) but Gnome is only
showing things that are broadcasting that they serve SFTP. I'm
surprised by this, as if it were me I probably would have made Gnome
also show Samba Servers in the same way. Heck - I have no right to
complain though, it's not like I've ever offered to assist the Gnome
Peeps ;o)


Yes.... Well, this was a fun exercise.


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