Netatalk and AppleTalk Printers

[Joe Villari]

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.

YDL 2.3 has netatalk running:

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.

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:

[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

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.

Joe