Netatalk and AppleTalk Printers

[Joe Villari]

nathan r. hruby wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Joe Villari wrote:
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>>I'm trying to set up my HP 4MP printer with my TI PowerBook and YDL 2.3. 
>>The printer connects to the computer via ethernet. The printer has a 
>>serial to ethernet adapter to a hub and the comtupter plugs right into 
>>the hub. Works fine from Mac OS.
>>
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>Please describe the serial -> ethernet dongle.  Is it a print server like
>device?  If so, it probably has support for LPR printing (you should
>investigate this) so you can print directly to the printer using the
>standard printing tools under YDL.
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It is a Farallon ethernet iprint adapter. Basically, the old style apple 
print port is contected to a cable which connects to the adapter, the 
other side of the adapter is an ethernet cable to the hub. Commonly used 
connect non-ethernet Mac printers to ethernet hubs for Mac networking.

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>>YDL 2.3 has netatalk running:
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>>Jan  3 01:04:54 localhost atalk: atalkd startup succeeded
>>Jan  3 01:05:06 localhost atalk: papd startup succeeded
>>Jan  3 01:05:06 localhost atalk: afpd startup succeeded
>>
>>According to YDL documentation I should be able to use MOL, go to the 
>>chooser and see the linux side. This doesn't happen. I'm not sure if  I 
>>need to configure the TCP/IP control panel or not; right now it's set 
>>for ppp but appletalk is set for ethernet.
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>>According to a howto (http://gdr.free.fr/linux2.html) I found, I should 
>>be able to use getzones to see my AppleTalk zones and nbplkup to see 
>>into the zones. Here are my results:
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>>[root@localhost joev]# getzones
>>atp_rresp: Connection timed out
>>
>>[root@localhost joev]# nbplkup
>>                      localhost:AFPServer                          
>>65280.207:128
>>                      localhost:netatalk                           
>>65280.207:4
>>                      localhost:Workstation                        
>>65280.207:4
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>>Notsure what this all means. It appears that netatalk is OK but I don't 
>>see any AppleTalk zones.
>>
>>The computer is connected to the hub and the printer is turned on and in 
>>the hub. I make my internet connection via pcmcia modem and did change 
>>/etc/sysconfig/network  from 'GATEWAYDEV=3Deth0' to GATEWAYDEV=3Dppp0 as 
>>per YDL howto (I'm not sure if this will cause any problems for networking).
>>
>>Any ideas, help, documentation or solutions will be appreciated.
>>
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>I don't understand what you're trying to do and your setup seems overly 
>complex.  Perhaps if you could answer a few questions:
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>Why are you using a PCMCIA modem and not the onboard ethernet of 
>the TiBook?  
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The only way to connect to the internet is via dial up. The onboard 
modem won't work on a TI PowerBook.

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>Does the PCMCIA modeam also have an ethernet connection?
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No

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>Does the PCMCIA modem get recognized by linux at all?
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Yes, using it right now for internet connection.

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>Are you trying to connect to your printer remotely over a 
>PPP connection? 
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Printer is connected to an ethernet hub.

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>Does your MOL session have any networking?  
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Dunno. According to YDL howto all you had to do is start atalk and then 
it appears when you use MOL which is what happens when I used a 
standalone Mac machine connected to a hub that my Suse intel server was 
plugged into.

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>Does nbplkup report the printer sitting on the network?
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No I don't think so. See Above

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>Do you have a router on your network that is creating zones? (eg: a 
>gatorbox, hardware router, netatalk box connected to two seperate 
>networks, a VPN connection to a remote site with zones)?
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No. This is a very SIMPLE setup, one TI PowerBook connected to a hub and 
a printer connected to the hub.

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>What exactly are you trying to do?
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Get my printer to work under YDL 2.3 from my PowerBook

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>-n
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