Today was a bit of a slow day–I still cannot get Media Center 11 to run under Wine–so I thought I might give a shot to get mt-daapd to serve up files to a daap enabled client on Windows. iTunes is the obvious choice for a client but the UI sucks so bad that I want to slam my hands in a drawer and staple my eyes shut but luckily a kind soul has made a plugin for Winamp which makes me happy.
Here’s how it went down:

Server Side:

• Make sure you are running SSH and if your not ask yourself why.
• Grab mt-daapd and take care of any dependencies:
  

  libsqlite0
  libsqlite0-dev
  gawk
  gcc (this will install gcc-4.0)
  libid3tag0-dev
  libgdbm-dev

• Edit /etc/mt-daapd.conf to your liking such as mp3_dir and servername

• Grab Avahi and take care of any dependencies:
  

  avahi-daemon
  avahi-utils
  libnss-mdns

• Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to ensure that mdns is on the hosts line:
  

  hosts: files dns mdns

• Give dbus a kick: sudo invoke-rc.d dbus restart
• Get your avahi-daemon running: sudo invoke-rc.d avahi-daemon start
• Fire up mt-daapd: sudo mt-daapd

Client Side

• Get yourself a copy of iTunes, only if you are a masochist, or snag Winamp with the DAAP plugin if you love yourself.
• Install Rendezvous Proxy and configure it (you need this to fool the client into thinking that the mt-daap server is on the same subnet):
  

  IP Address - 127.0.0.1
  Port - 3689
  Host Label - Your_DAAP_Server_Name_Here
  Service Type - daap

• Set up a tunnel with Putty for port 3689, which is just like doing it for TightVNC.
• Fire up iTunes or Winamp and wait for it to stumble onto your DAAP shares.

Well, that’s it in a nutshell.

Cribbed from James Henstridge’s write up about Avahi on Breezy, this thread, and this one.

**Update**

If Avahi seemingly won’t start check /etc/default/avahi-daemon and make sure it reads: AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1