How-to: Using Bonjour Browser as a troubleshooting tool

Question

AirPort Extreme uses Bonjour (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/) to facilitate features like disk sharing and printing. You can use a Bonjour browser to see what features are active on your network.
How does this help?
Many questons on the forum are similar to 'Where's my shared disk/iTunes/printer/airport?' A Bonjour browser can tell you if your disk/iTunes/printer/airport is present in your network. If the feature is not present focus on the device/feature. If the feature is present focus on your client computer.
1) Download a Bonjour browser, e.g. I use this browser: 'Bonjour Browser' (http://www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html)
2) Install and run Bonjour Browser
3) You should see a hierarchy of features under 'local'. There maybe other domains in addition to local.
Here's some examples of Bonjour-advertised features:
Shared disks appear under 'adisk.tcp.' Under this heading you can see all your AirPorts with the disks you nominated for sharing, with IP addresses.
The base station itself is under 'airport.tcp.' Under this entry are all the base stations you have (b/g and n, AirPort Express etc ...)
The 'AirTunes' entry tells you which IP address is your AirTunes/AirPort Express device.
You can also see any file sharing, SSH, iTunes music sharing etc .. that may be offered by your client computers. I see my IP printer under 'Printer PDL Data Stream).
Hope this helps your troubleshooting.
iMac Core Duo2   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   AirPort Extreme + AirTunes. 802.11n and 802.11b/g

Answer 1

Hi gino,
Select -
where text CP 'Manufacturer' is right answer. If you get error on that statment, you would probably check the field that is used in where clause.
or  try the following statement. Hope this will helps.
select -
where text = '%manufacturer%'.
I think it will then become a performance issue. Explain it clearly that what exactly you want and where is this being used.
Do you want some thing like search help? Example: customer number search from any customer field. If so try to create a search help and add the same to your custom field.