LaserWriters & YDL

[Luke Middle]

>on 6/16/02 6:56 PM, malice@mac.com purportedly said:
>
>>  Trying to setup my LaserWriter Pro 630 (Using EtherTalk) on my PM 
>>8550 running
>>  YDL 2.2. Once I get this working I hope to share it via Samba so I 
>>can toss PC
>>  MacLan. Anyone know how I would go about setting up the printer 
>>(if it's even
>>  possible) and if I will need any additional software? thanks!
>
>All you need is Netatalk and Samba. Set up the printer via /etc/printcap
>according to Netatalk docs, reference that printer when setting up a printer
>share in your smb.conf, and voila--you have a cross-platform Linux print
>server. Works like a charm, usually.
>
>Keary Suska
>Esoteritech, Inc.
>"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

I have done this very successfully with a LaserWriter 8500 on YDL 2.1 
and printing from 95/98/xp/me/2000.  I have lp set up using RH 
printtool to create the /etc/printcap file and the standard 
postscript driver pointing to the laserwriter ip address.  Then add 
this to your smb.conf file (double check the spool path):

[printers]
         comment = All Printers
         path = /var/spool/samba
         printable = Yes
         browseable = Yes
         public = Yes
         guest ok = Yes

Then all workgroup windows machines can see it in the browse window 
when setting up a new printer.  One problem I ran into here, so you 
know, is there is not an apple driver in windows land for the 8500 
(don't know about the 630 you are using) but other drivers seem to 
work just fine.  If anyone else knows I would be interested to know 
if using this method linux can give up layout control of the printer 
so that a layout command from windows (eg. multiple pages on one 
page) will be understood.

Good luck!
-Luke
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