Re: [netatalk-admins] printers


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] printers
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 01 1998 - 14:47:31 EST


On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Robert J. Marinchick wrote:

> We've a number of Macs with varying os releases whose "chooser" will
> not show all the printers in a particular zone. Yet, "nbplkup" on my
> solaris, and an AppleTalk Manager on another Unix box show all the printers.

Are these printers talking AppleTalk directly, or are they using netatalk?

It sounds like there could be something wrong with your network. Things
like this can happen if you don't follow Ethernet specs especially the
"5-4-3 rule". Also if you network is very heavily loaded.

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