Subject: Print spooling with netatalk
From: Dave Scheltema (interested1@mediaone.net)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 03:58:01 EDT
Netatalk admins-
I have come across a MAC laser writer 360 and have been almost
successfully in the setup. The printer is on the parallel port and its
known as lp to my linux system. I have tested printing text files and
such to the printer from the box and it works quite nicely. In trying
to connected it in with netatalk I receive errors that are mailed to me
and my print job ultimately fails. Here is my papd.conf
Apple Laser test:\
:pr=lp:op=root:\
:pd=/var/ppd/Laser Writer Select 360.PPD:
I of course have the ppd file in /var/ppd and it is called Laser Writer
Select 360.PPD so all seems to be fine to me so far.
When I go to a mac I have to setup the printer known as Apple Laser
test, the mac detects that I need a PS file and it suggests that I use
the Laser Writer Select 360.PPD file. I am a little doubtful that this
is what should happen, since it is using the file on the macs hard
drive. Isn't the .ppd file suppose to be fed to the mac? Continuing
along with the events... I make a quick NotePad document that says "test
test" and I send it to the Apple Laser test printer. The job seems to
be sent over to the printer, but opun checking lpq no file was added to
the lpd queue. After a few more seconds I get a mail message that says:
Your printer job (Note Pad)
was not printed because it was not linked to the original file
I am pretty sure that I am doing something wrong with the setup of
this, but I am not sure where I went astray. What does this mail
message mean? It seems to say that the job is not being linked, but how
would I change this? What does it mean by being linked? Its not like a
ln -s in linux is it? Thanks again for the help!
Dave Scheltema
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