Subject: Re: AppleTalk HowTo?
From: Tobias Weber (towb@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 16:57:43 EST
On 28 Nov, BWS - Offwhite wrote:
> Sharing a printer from an iMac may require a print server on the iMac. I
> am not sure if that requires the AppleShare server for apple or not.
USB Sharing seems to be Peer-to-Peer and a protocol of its own.
Doesn't AplleShare work for PS printers only? I read sth about the
Macintosh's printing system being hopelessly backwards (like control
language and hardware interface being handled by one driver, so you need
different drivers for Serial/USB connection of the same printer).
> But before you spend the money on that, be sure that sharing is on for the
> Mac. It would help to confirm this if you had another mac on the network
> to see if you can see that mac. But with a Unix/Linux server you can
> simply run "nbplkup" to see what machines have registered themselves with
> the network.
As mentioned, atalkconf (which runs nbplkup) didn't show anything. I
don't have access to another Mac, but this one doesn't see anything,
either and even complains about a "zone" being "not available".
BTW When I wanted to transfer a file via ftp, as I previously did with
the Network Browser, the login dialog looked different and afterwards I
had "TheVolumeSettingsFolder" in my home on the Linux box. So I suppose
netatalk is working now...
> Another way to attack this would be to get the printer to simply connect
> to the network directly with an ethernet connection. If you can configure
> the printer to run as it's own printer server you would have a much easier
> job, but I do not think that is like for a USB printer.
As I wrote in a parallel posting, it isn't even a real USB printer but
connected with an adapter. And it was to cheap to have a JetServer slot.
-- Tobias Weber
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