Netatalk printing.

[Iain Stevenson]

Since nbplkup is part of the netatalk package I suspect that if it doesn't 
work you can assume that any other use of netatalk will fail too.  You 
should try removing and re-installing netatalk.  If nbplkup still does not 
work you may need to build and install a newer version.

  Iain



--On Wednesday, June 5, 2002 3:09 pm +0200 The DJ 
<d.hartman@student.utwente.nl> wrote:

> Oke, I really need some help.
> I've been messing with this for days.
>
> Setup: PM 4400 with YDL 2.2 (server packages, no X11)
> LW II NTX connected to the printerport.
>
> I want to setup an lpd server so I can print to my printer.
> I don't want a papd or an afpd. I just want to use pap to print to my
> appletalk printer.
>
> First issue was that for some reason $NETATALKHOME is set to /usr/bin
> which gives the strange behavior that netatalk apps are looking in
> /usr/bin/bin for pap etc. I set the variable to /usr from the rc.local
> file and from my bash_profile.
>
> Second issue. nbplkup only responds with "nbp_lookup: Invalid argument".
>
> This is my printcap.local file:
> Lp|LaserWriter:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/LaserWriter:\
>     :lp=/dev/null;\
>     :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>     :if=/usr/sbin/ifpaprev:\
>     :of=/usr/sbin/ofpap:\
>     :tf=/usr/sbin/tfpaprev:\
>     :df=/usr/sbin/dfpaprev:\
>     :af=/var/log/lpd-accounting:\
>     :mx#0:sh:sf:
>
> I have a .paprc file in the spooldir which contains the name:
> LaserWriter II NTX
>
> Which is the name of my printer. (I checked this under OS9, since nbplkup
> wasn't working.)
>
> When I print to the printer I get this in /var/log/messages
> Starting for root
> Accounting with psa[840]
> Sending to pap[841]
> Straigth text
> 841 died with 1
>
> If I call pap -p LaserWriter\ II\ NTX then I also get a "LaserWriter II
> NTX:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed"
>
> I'm totally lost now. I simply don't get this. Do I need to setup
> papd.conf even though I don't want to be a print server? Do I need to
> specify which interface I want to use? Or is the ydl netatalk package
> just &@%$( ? What am I doing wrong. Please help me.
>
> DJ, who is switching back to os9 now to print a page. ;-(
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