printing, shared permissions, file compatibility

[Cynthia Croy]

Hello everyone -

I have been trying for several days to get Linux to print. I have an 
Apple LaserWriter Select 310. I know it's a postscript printer, and 
since I have to turn off Appletalk in MacOS to print to it, I am 
guessing it isn't an Appletalk printer. Does that mean it's Localtalk 
and therefore not supported?

With my fist attempts at printing from KDEword, I was getting a message 
about hostname 'localhost' bad. I fixed this by putting localhost in the 
/etc/hosts file - which didn't even exist until I created it for this 
purpose. I also added it to /etc/hosts.allowed. Now I get a message 
"Cannot open connection to localhost. Network is unreachable. Make sure 
LPD server is running." I'm not sure what this means relative to my 
situation. My printer is not networked. All the attempts I've made at 
printing from printconf-gui come back with "There was an error trying to 
print the test page." KDEword at least gives me more informative error 
messages.

My next quesion is: how do I give users permission to write to the 
Mac/Linux shared partition? I was able to give users write permission 
for /dev/hda6, but when I try to give permission to the shared 
directory, nothing happens. I type "chmod  +aw /mac/shared_hda, but ls 
-l for /mac/shared_hda shows no changes, and I still can't copy files to 
it as a user. Do I have to change something in /etc/fstab?

Final question: why won't Netscape and Mozilla share files? If I copy a 
Mozilla email to the shared disk (as root) Canvas opens it in MacOS as a 
blank page. Similarly, Mozilla refuses to open a Netscape html page from 
the shared disk. In LinuxPPC 1999, Mozilla wouldn't open it from 
file:open, but I was able to drag-and-drop the file icon onto the open 
window and see it properly. This doesn't seem to work in YDL 2.2.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, Cindy