Netatalk printing.

[Stephen Lewis]

You don't need afpd nor papd but you DO need atalkd running,
for nbplkup, pap to work
see 'man atalkd'
Nothing wrong with YDL netatalk package,
it will probably be easier to run the whole thing
than to try and make pieces work by themselves.
as root:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
Stephen Lewis


Message: 9
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:27:56 +0100
From: Iain Stevenson <iain@iainstevenson.com>
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Netatalk printing.
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com


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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