Apple's software system for simple and intuitive recognition and configuration of certain networked computer devices, including computers and printers.
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iMessage conversations changed to Bonjour; how do I change them back?
Within the iMessages app on OS X 10.8.2 all of my iMessage conversations have switched to Bonjour. So instead of showing the usual blue bubble it's red and people's phone numbers are shown instead of ...
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What is the preferred method of command line domain name lookup (DNS)?
What command line command do I use to lookup a domain address?
When looking at the man pages for nslookup and dig I can see a section saying that these utilities do not use the Mac OS methods of ...
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AppleTV and other Apple devices connecting by wifi but not by LAN
I have an AppleTV in a local network that is connected by WiFi but it cannot find the iTunes library in my Mac that is connected via LAN to the router.
If I connect my Mac via WiFi, voilá, AppleTV is ...
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How to find IP address of my other Mac?
I have two Macs on the same network, both plugged into my internet router. I have screen-sharing set up on one of them, so I can connect to it using command-K in the Finder with a vnc:// URL, and ...
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Mountain Lion printer not found on bonjour, can't install by IP
My networked HP6310 suddenly stopped working today from my MBPro running Mountain Lion. Other laptops in the house (MB running Snow Leopard, MBP running Lion) can still print. I can connect via USB ...
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Get current client from Airfoil
At work we use a Mac mini running Airfoil as an endpoint to stream music through the speakers.
Ideally, I'd like to query that machine to ascertain the name or address of the current client streaming ...
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Can I list all the Bonjour-enabled services that are running?
I would be interested in knowing which programs advertise themselves using Bonjour on my machine. Is there a way to do that?
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Using a dyn.com dynamic host name with an AirPort device
I have an AirPort Extreme base station with firmware 7.6.1 and would like to access it remotely using a dynamic hostname registered with dyn.com (e.g. example.dyndns.org).
An explanation is given by ...
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How to regain features from Safari 5 that are not found in Safari 6?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion, there are a lot of differences in Safari 6.
Have the four features below been relocated?
If not relocated, are there fixes?
Activity window (previously: Window -> ...
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Bonjour bookmarks not supported?
I was trying to get Bonjour bookmarks to show up in Safari on iPad and I came across this post from 2008 - "Safari for iPhone currently doesn't support Bonjour bookmark browsing":
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Remote Bonjour Connection
I currently use a code editor called Coda.
It uses Bonjour to offer collaborative code editing over a local network.
I am going to be travelling for the next two months and need to occasionally ...
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AppleTV 3 wakes iMac every 10 minutes
Until recently, I left my iMac (27" late 2009) on all the time. I now want to sleep it when not in use, but also wake it remotely via my AirPort Extreme. All this is working fine. The iMac is set to ...
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Can't connect Mac to Mac via Finder over LAN
I'm having trouble getting one Mac on my home LAN to talk to another - let's call them Red and Blue. Red can't connect via Finder (under Shared) to Blue. But Red can open a Screen Sharing session to ...
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Can I log employees' working hours through Bonjour availability?
We have a small office network with a Mac server, and all employees have their own Mac laptop they take home at the end of the day.
I am looking for a way to automatically log the employees' time at ...
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How can I remove or disable Bonjour on OSX Lion, is it safe?
I have the only one computer with OSX (wife hates OSX) so I have no other computer to bonjour with. I never needed neither network zero-configuration nor printer sharing or whatever it does. Windows ...
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AirPrint doesn't work with router that has DD-WRT installed
Years ago, AirPrint worked in my house on my current printer. It's an HP Photosmart Premium and it absolutely does support AirPrint.
Then a year or two ago, I installed DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT160N ...
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Do I really need Bonjour on Windows?
One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, ...
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What can I use for multi-person, single conversation, instant messaging in a serverless local network?
We have a number of Mac's in a small, simple local network at the office (all running Snow Leopard or later) that I'd like to use for instant messaging with multiple participants.
The trouble is, at ...
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How secure is Apple File Protocol from Airport Extreme
How secure is the file sharing feature for use over WAN on an Airport Extreme? i.e. Are the content and/or passwords encrypted when accessed over the Internet?
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Bonjour/Airplay in restricted College Network
I am trying to connect my iPad (running 4.3.3) with my Macbook (running Lion) in my college dorm room using my college's Wifi. It uses 802.1X Authentication. I can't ping my iPad from my Macbook. Is ...
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mdns works different on snow leopard and lion
I have a few linux machines on my local network. Using avahi, they expose their name over mdns. This enables me to access them by doing ping green.local or other commands (but by using the hostname).
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Apache bonjour module and Sites folder template
I just upgraded to Lion and because I do web design, first thing I did was turning on Web Sharing to get Apache running. While checking the logs I found that the Bonjour module can't find a file and ...
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Can an AppleTV wake a Snow Leopard Mac for playing back iTunes content?
Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content?
I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through ...
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Two drobo NAS on one network causes premature 'Server has closed down' events.
We have a Drobo setup with a fixed IP on ethernet which we've named BoxA. It shows up in the finder list, everyone can connect to it and share files.
We brought a second Drobo to backup the first, ...
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Bonjour setup question
I have an iPad named aiPad, and a Mac named prosseek.
With 'ping prosseek.local', I can find the Mac, but with "ping aipad.local", I can't find the iPad.
What might be wrong with my iPad bonjour?
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Is Bonjour supposed to make your home networking a lot easier?
If Bonjour is installed on all PCs, Macs, is it supposed to make home networking a lot easier? (the heaven of seeing all shared folders any where at home?)
(even the VLC Streamer on iPad claims to ...
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Prevent Bonjour Announcements Over OpenVPN
We have an OpenVPN server at work, which I use frequently to access private work resources. When I do, the "Shared" listed in Finder populates with all the automatically announced servers/resources at ...
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Reason for perpetual dynamic DNS updates?
(Crossposted from Serverfault)
I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about ...
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Windows 7 reports mDNSResponse.exe caused a problem with Bonjour
Windows 7 Action Ceenter reports:
Address a problem with Bonjour
Bonjour has stopped working properly.
The name of the file that caused this
problem is mDNSResponse.exe.
For ...
