Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Preferred method of accessing from PPP ?
From: Eric C Wagner (wagnerer@umich.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 14 1997 - 15:31:04 EDT
As far as I know a sun's patches only modify the apple share section of
the package to enable IP. I didn't realize any of the printing clients had
IP capablities but I would think that most unix machines would support IP
printing even if natalk wasn't installed.
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Stelios Valavanis wrote:
> is IP printing supported in netatalkIP? on appleshare servers, i believe
> the print server now allows IP connections to it but they still go out as
> appletalk. i'm sure linux could print any damn way it wants. man, i think
> we need to install netatalkIP on our own lan now.
>
> At 1:23 PM -0400 8/13/97, Eric C Wagner wrote:
> >Actually netatalk/tcp is not just around the corner, its already here.
> >I've been using asun's patches on two computers for about two weeks now.
> >Both computers are accessable through a normal PPP connection. Just make
> >sure you have the new appleshare client.
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> >On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, John Grant wrote:
> >
> >> What's the preferred method for allowing PPP access to appletalk services
> >> via netatalk ? I see that it is not directly supported.
> >>
> >> The most likely candidate looks like ARNS with atppp, but it's all a bit
> >> CAP and looks like it just creates a router, it makes no mention about a
> >> local server. If I want the (Solaris) machine to be a netatalk server *and*
> >> allow PPP dial-in supporting TCP/IP and appletalk what's the approach ?
> >>
> >> The response that netatalk/tcp is *really* just around the corner and all
> >> this can be forgotten before the end of September is an acceptable
> >> solution, if anyone cares to make it.
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
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