Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] I think I know the answer, but ...
From: Yuji Shinozaki (yuji@physics.unc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 09:54:24 EST
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Carl Kreider wrote:
>
> I have a nagging feeling that this has been discussed but
> can't find any evidence:
>
> I find that (using 1.4b2+asun and ethernet) I can have either
> server names in the chooser or serial printers, but not both
> as I need appletalk enabled to get names in the chooser but
> can't print to a serial printer on the printer port if appletalk
> is enalbed.
You should be able to specify a *serial* printer and still have
Appletalk/Ethertalk active. You you mean a *localtalk* printer?
In that case you might want to look at laserwriter bridge (although
I have never used it).
>
> Is this true? Is there a work around (not a biggie for me
> to enter a dotted quad server address, but for the real user
> of the macs ...)?
If you are talking about having the users type in the server IP address
for an Appleshare IP server, remember that you can also use the IP name.
whopper.my.domain.com vs. 128.128.238.182 ( this is a made-up number BTW).
Furthermore if you have the DNS Search Domains set up properly, you can
use the short name for a server.
E.g. Suppose your netatalk server is whopper.my.domain.com. If you have
TCP/IP set with my.domain.com as one of the search domains, a user need
only type in "whopper" as the server IP address. With DNS aliases (also
known as CNAME entries) you can even give your server alternate names
(like "macserver1", "adminserver" ...) to make it easy for users to
remember... just a suggestion.
yuji
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