printing, shared permissions, file compatibility

[Cynthia Croy]

  Oliver -

Thank you for your replies.

Ithink I have the right serial drivers.
A dmesg shows the following:

PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0
ttyS0 at .......... port = modem
ttyS1 at .......... port = printer

where ........... is the port number and irq number - I didn't want to 
type it.

The modem works, so at least some of it must be set up correctly. 
Setserial shows identical settings between the two ports, except for 
device number, irq number, and port number. Speed is set to "normal" on 
both. The technical specifications for my computer give the following 
for the RS-232/RS-422 port speed: 230.4 Kbits perseconf maximum (up to 
2.048 Mbits per second clocked externally). It was not clear to me from 
the setserial man page what the proper setting for my printer port 
should be.

How do I tell if the network/server settings are correct? How do I 
change them?

I didn't see anything in the Gnome system monitor that looked like an 
LPD server. Is there a command line command that will give me more 
information?

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>>Furthermore, for the network emulation to work the lo (loopback)
>>virtual network interface must exist, be assigned to IP 127.0.0.1
>>and have an entry in the routing table.
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I'm a little bit lost here. When I do a PPP dialup, I get loopback as 
one of the interface choices. Does this mean it exists? I put "127.0.0.1 
localhost" in the /etc/hosts file that I created, but I don't know 
anything about a routing table. What file would this be?

Any further detail you can provide would be much appreciated. Or if you 
could direct me to a website specific to serial printing that would be 
helpful too.

Thanks,
Cindy

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