Re: Help using Linux box as Mac print server
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:44:26PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> I've been trying to use my woody box as print server for a Mac.
I do it, and it works. Most important thing... make sure printing is
working before you try to get the Mac to use it.
> 1) Dual interface box
> * eth0 connected to cable modem
> * eth1 connected to wavelan with non-routable ip. Macs are on
> this network
A wavelan is an Orinoco, right? Wireless? Does whatever you're using for
an access point bridge appletalk? Many don't. I have here a D-Link AP1000
that *does*, and a D-Link 614+ wireless router that does NOT.
> Results:
>
> * netatalk launches. None of the services: "Home Directory" defined by
> default in AppleVolumes.default, MyStylus appears in the chooser.
> If I use the IP the AppleShare dialog in the chooser, I can connect
> to my home directory (but this is over IP not Appletalk).
This would seem to indicate that your AP isn't passing appletalk...
> The AppleTalk control panel does detect the network (e.g. it
> reports the correct network range).
Hm. Inconsistent. I don't know enough about appletalk to know whether it
could get that information over IP or not.
> No amount of fiddling with settings seems to get the printer to
> appear in the chooser.
Now we're back to not passing appletalk again.
> * I then tried to configure the Mac to use a lpd printer. When I
> to use this printer, I can see the connection to the cups-lpd
> daemon. But nothing prints. I can print from linux laptop
> on the private network (via cups but to network lpd).
Hm. When I tried to print from my iBook (OS X.2.2) to my
ethernet-interfaced LaserWriter IIg, I got wacky errors on the Linux end
(though I use lprng there, not cups) unless I configured a specific printer
queue name for the iBook to use. Leaving the checkbox "Use default queue
on server" set produced all kinds of interesting errors logged by lprng,
but no output. :(
And if you're asking why I don't print to it directly (rather than by going
through the Linux box), I can't unless the AP I'm talking to is the AP1000.
Remember, the 614+ doesn't bridge appletalk. :(
More consistent to just always print to it via IP. Besides, there are
other clients in the house printing to it as well, and letting the iBook
print to it directly would subvert any queue management I tried to do.
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