Avahi on Windows?
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If I don't use Avahi, am I going to have to manually connect to the server every time I want to backup, or will mac do that for me? I assume not.
I'm trying to host this on a Windows server. Would I be able to get auto-connection / discovery working on Windows? I'm assuming it'd have to be through something besides avahi?
avahi enables autodiscovery in the local network (aka, appearing in Finder automatically). besides that, you can autoconnect using the IP address of your server (must be static) and the backups should work fine.
Hope that helps :)
Avahi doesn't seem to be available for a windows host. Is there anything I could use as an alternative to avahi?
It doesn't look like there is any native option: https://learn.adafruit.com/bonjour-zeroconf-networking-for-windows-and-linux/overview#microsoft-windows
But, if Docker on windows enables that (I don't really know, haven't tried) you can spawn a container con privilege access to the network, and install avahi there. That would enable avahi to send its service announcements through the network.
Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/danisla/avahi/ (look at the --net host in the docker run command)