Netatalk and AppleTalk Printers

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Joe Villari wrote:

> 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.
> 

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.

> 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.
> 

I don't understand what you're trying to do and your setup seems overly 
complex.  Perhaps if you could answer a few questions:

Why are you using a PCMCIA modem and not the onboard ethernet of 
the TiBook?  

Does the PCMCIA modeam also have an ethernet connection?

Does the PCMCIA modem get recognized by linux at all?

Are you trying to connect to your printer remotely over a 
PPP connection?  

Does your MOL session have any networking?  

Does nbplkup report the printer sitting on the network?

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)?

What exactly are you trying to do?

-n
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