Subject: [netatalk-admins] Printing setup doesn't seem to function at all...
From: Jeff Wiegley (jeff@w3-design.com)
Date: Fri Oct 31 1997 - 20:48:05 EST
Apologies for not even being able to get started with
printing but the netatalk documentation on the subject
is almost non-existant and the printing-HOWTO page
is on a foreign site which never seems to be reachable
and the printing pages on the domestic site are gone...
We have netatalk and samba working flawlessly here and
my bosses are/were quite pleased until...
"Hey, we can't print..."
so now I'm quickly trying to get printing up and running
and what I have so far is /etc/printcap...
admin|Admin LaserWriter on AppleTalk:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/admin:\
:lp=/var/spool/lpd/admin/null:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/appletalk/admin-errs:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
:of=/usr/bin/pap:
production|Production LaserWriter on AppleTalk:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/production:\
:lp=/var/spool/lpd/production/null:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/appletalk/production-errs:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
:of=/usr/bin/pap:
but I haven't tested any "lpr -Pproduction <file>" things yet
because appearantly pap isn't working...
[root@server lpd]# pap -p admin testpage.ps
admin:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
[root@server lpd]# pap -p Admin testpage.ps
Admin:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
and we *do* have an appletalk printer named "Admin".
so it seems that our server cannot see any of the appletalk
devices because...
[root@server nbp]# nbplkup
server:AFPServer 65280.123:128
server:netatalk 65280.123:4
server:Workstation 65280.123:4
and that's it. no printers listed, no other macs listed and
we must have at least a dozen macs floating around here.
checking the appleshare under another mac's chooser shows
5 different machines including the server.
what have I screwed up so bad that the server doesn't be able
to see in the direction of the clients but the clients can
all see and use the server? Any ideas?
- Jeff Wiegley
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