Subject: netatalk-1.3.3b1, printing and Etherprint-T boxes...
From: Rob Willett (rob@finale.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 1995 - 17:07:09 EDT
I downloaded netatalk-1.3.3b1 from umich and tryed gettin it to work
with LInux 1.2.7. From the little I've seen working (my fault no doubt)
it looks a pretty good piece of software. I got the file system working
first and I'll be honest, after seeing all my /home/rob files on the Mac
I was highly impressed. Just to make things even better I wasn't running
a straight Mac. I've got a PowerBook 180c running into an EtherPrint-T
box. This box is a LocalTalk to EtherTalk convertor. It is aimed at
connecting LaserWriters without Ethernet ports onto Ethernet networks.
It does seem to allow any LocalTalk device to connect to an Ethernet
network. I installed one at a customers before xmas and they think it's
wonderful (and cheap) way to connect their salesmans PowerBooks to
the network.
However I can't get printing to work. I can start papd OK. I can use the
chooser on the Mac to see the printer and can start to print to it.
The powerbook puts up a message saying printing but eventually times out.
The syslog message on the Linux box says that the connection timed out.
Question: What printer drivers do I need to connect my HPII with Adobe
PostScript card and Parallel port via netatalk to my Mac.
Question: Will netatalk indeed work though an EtherPrint box. My view is that
it should do. Filesharing certainly does.
Question: What do I do now?
Thnaks for reading this. If anyone does have any good (or bad) ideas
mail them to me. I'm away for a couple of days (FRiday->) but will
repsond to each and every one.
Rob.
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