Liaison allows computers on a small network to discover other computers and
their users. It requires minimal user interaction and no confusing settings.
Liaison is fully compatible with Apple's Rendezvoustm and compiles
with the zeroconf specifications.
Liaison is the prefect solution for home networks. Just plug your laptop in and
you will be able to instantly access it from any computer on your home
network. Home networks will no longer be limited by their user's intelligence.
Finally, your Mactm and PC can communicate easily.
Update: October 12th, 2003:Unfortunately, There will be no windows client release. look at http://www.swampwolf.com/products/ for a product that works under windows.
Update: May 6th, 2003: I've been really busy with school and havn't be able to work on it that much. I've started reading about uPnP and how/if it can work with our project. I'm going to have a couple hours on a plane to work on it so I'll see what I do about getting 1.2 out the door before spring semester is over. If anyone has interest in using liaison, please email me at dsledz@uiuc.edu.
Update: March 20, 2003: New version of Liaison 0.1.1 is out! This is
basically just the rework code I mentioned earlier. There is also the the
ipkg that we used at EOH. Once I get the daemon the way I want, I'll rebuild
the ipkg. Find both of these under downloads.
Still working on rewriting the daemon. I hope to have something done tonight. After that, the c API will receive a nice reworking, then the nsswitch plugin. After that, I'm going try and port this
correctly to windows.
Update: March 16, 2003: I'm currently rewroting a lot of the code to make it smaller and easily to understand. If you have already downloaded the code, please email me with your comments and suggestions.
Update: March 15, 2003: Thanks for everyone that came to see our
project at EOH. We've learned quite a few things in the past few days, such
as the Orinoco drivers under linux are flaky and udp under wireless makes
things really interesting. With the knowledge we've learned, we are going
back and reworking a lot of our code to make it better suited for wireless
links. I also hope that I can speed it up and add some more reliablity.
As promised, this is a tar ball here for your
downloading pleasure. Don't expect great things, but it does work, even if it
rather ugly code