Printing problem


Subject: Printing problem
From: heintz@osf.org
Date: Wed Oct 27 1993 - 14:51:29 EDT


        Hi, I am having a problem setting up netatalk 1.3b2 printing
        from the Mac's to our Unix printers. Here is what I have done:
        I have been working with the mac printers first:

        the printcap file looks like so:

loraine|Lorraine's Printer on Appltalk:\
        :printer=/dev/loraine:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:pw#80:hl:\
        :of=:DESTDIR:/etc/ofpap:\
        :if=:DESTDIR:/etc/ifpaprev:\
        :tf=:DESTDIR:/etc/tfpaprev:

        when papd start is gets an unknown printer lp error?

        this printer is on a zone called DEV. Do I have to create a device
        entry for /dev/loraine or can it be a link to /dev/printer? Also
        /dev/printer is a socket that is created when print services are
        started. I would also imagine that the /etc/printcap file on our
        printserver will have to contain an entry for all the Mac printers,
        that we'd like to use via netatalk.

        Another question how do you distinguish the zones in the printcap
        file?

                                any help would be appreciated
                                                Curt

        

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Open Software Foundation			System Administrator
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