I had an avahi probleme due to thuis missing user. I recently updated avahi to 0.6.22_0 (from 0.6.17_0). It fixed the missing avahi user problem. But I'm still having an issue, apparently similar with Paul's one. Console log: 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522] Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522] didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd. 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]) Exited with exit code: 1 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] Found user 'avahi' (UID 502) and group 'avahi' (GID 502). 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] Successfully dropped root privileges. 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting up. 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon. 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]) Exited with exit code: 255 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] connect(): No such file or directory 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd. 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]) Exited with exit code: 1 Would reinstall avahi solve the problem? I have seen very few thread about the topic. Paul, did you manage to get a working asahi? Thanks, --nodje