The Reach of Rendezvous

[IslandJordan]

Does anyone know how Rendezvous decides how far to look for other Rendezvous users on a network?

I am at a large college in a large, school-owned apartment building. All computers are connected to the same school-wide network. Rendezvous detects my roommate in the room next door and the girls down the hall, but it cannot detect my friends 12 floors above me. I don't know very much about how the Boston U network is set up, but it hardly makes sense that Rendezvous only searches for Macs on my own floor.

Can someone shed some light on this?

Thanks, Jordan.

[unlearnthetruth]

yeah it doesn't seem to detect any of the mac users on my campus... wherever they are... bleh

[boi]

for ours, rendezvous only checks our dorm. i really should know more about this, but i don't. anyone?

[Javintosh]

rendevous only works in the local subnet. if you have to go through the router (see TCP/IP prefs under Network) to connect to other people then you won't be able to see them.

[IslandJordan]

Yeah. There are both subnet and router addresses there. Poop. And I don't suppose there's anyway around this?

[gumse]

Take a look at this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...21008063606483

"Add a neighborhood to the Connect to Server dialog".

Don't know if this is what you want, perhaps it is. I can't test it myself, I only have my own local neighborhood to play with.
It's probably just some samba stuff...

[fddi1]

As the current implementation of Rendezvous, it doesn't go beyond its own subnet. However, that feature is being planned. Maybe we'll see it when Panther is out.

[IslandJordan]

Cool. Except now I don't know what to type (I'm network/server stupid). And, of course, I've created serveral neighborhoods that don't do anything, and now I can't get rid of them. ;-)

I don't know the address of any of the other neighborhoods on the BU network. I wish it would search them out for me!