Netatalk and AppleTalk Printers

[Jeroen Diederen]

Jeroen Diederen wrote:

> What you can also try, but I think it has only to do with exporting 
> the printer for network use in an Appletalk environment, is the 
> following:
> add the following lines to /etc/atalk/papd.conf
>
> Linuxprinter:\
>    :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr - P 4MP:\
>    :pd=/usr/share/cups/model/the_name_of_the_ppd_file.ppd
>
> Restart atalk. You will find the printer in the Chooser on other Macs, 
> or in MOL.
> Linuxprinter will be the name of the Appletalk printer.
>
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Try to "sort of ping" the machine:
 /usr/bin/aecho "Lasertje":LaserWriter@*