Subject: Newbie install question
From: Morgan Reed (morganr@home.com)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 15:38:37 EDT
Alright, I have multilayered problems / incompetencies here:
Outline:
I have a 486 laptop which I would like to use to be able to allow my wife's
win dows machine to speak to my IIg printer which is hooked up to our little
home network via Ethertalk.
THe laptop has Debian 2.1 installed, and card services loaded. I can ping
out, serve web pages with apache and all other TCP/IP things I have tried.
I am using the netatalk atalk installed with debian 2.1 dselect, during
startup, I get the message "Starting AppleTalk daemons (this will take a
while): atalkd afpd papd" so I think it is starting up alright, but then my
luck runs out:
1. Before I made changes to services, if I dmesg | grep Apple, I got the
proper response (Appletalk 0.17 for linux NET3.035). Now that I changed the
services as the howto guide suggests, I get no response at all. it just
pauses for a moment, then gives me a new bash prompt. If I lsmod I show the
appletalk module loaded.
2. If I getzones, I get an error saying either atp_rresp: Connection timed
out, or atp_open: Cannot assign requested address( I havn't seen that last
error since I set services)
3. Debian dselect did not make a /usr/local/atalk directory, instead the
netatalk stuff is in /etc/netatalk. there is no directory atalk at all in
/usr/local. should I make one and cp the stuff into it? even though I seem
to have (or did have) appletalk loaded?
One of the things that confuses me is how the heck am I supposed to be able
to get zones when I have not created any zones (or have I?) I don't have it
connected to my mac currently but I do have the IIg on the network.
Additionally, if I ifconig, I don't show any changes to eth0 that would
suggest an Appletalk connection. How does the eth0 appear differnt after
atalk is running?
If I nbplkup I get the following response:
Linuxbox2:AFPServer 65280.213.128
Linuxbox2:netatalk 65280.213.4
Linuxbox2:Workstaion 65280.213.4
MMLab IIg:LaserWriter 44426.200.128
also if I papstatus -p "MMLab IIg" I get the correct, status: idle response
Where LinuxBox2 is the name of my laptop. SO it can see the printer....but
now what?
I don't want to serve files, I don't want to even have my mac be able to
access the box. All I want is to set up the linuxbox to be a damn print
server/spooler.
Questions:
1. do I need to getzones
2.does it matter that when I do getzones I get the timeout response and I
get no changes in eth0?
3. will I run into problems with not having netatalk in the
usr/local/direcotry?
On a side note, when I got apsfilter from dslesct, it kept wanting to
install Xfree as past of gs. I don't want X of any sort on this box (the
hd is small and memory is low. Since the IIg is a postscript printer, do I
even need gs (which, I am assuming is ghostscript, right?)
I am planning to use lprng and apsfilter. anyone had results with a IIg and
this setup?
Thanks for enduring this lengthy, muddled post.
Morgan
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