Subject: [netatalk-admins] Progress ... of a sort! LONG (but please read anyway)
From: J. Guy Stalnaker (jstalnak@doit.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 22 1999 - 11:43:29 EST
Hello again.
My thanks to everyone who contributed posts to help me in my efforst at
getting netatalk compiled and operational.
The good news is that I now have a working system! Really.
The system is: Slackware 3.6, kernel 2.0.35, netatalk 1.42b+asun1.2.25,
a *home* ethernet (NIC cards in two computers running MacOS 8.1, and a
hub), Linux set up as a standalone network (IP = 10.0.0.0) and atalkd
automatically configured without a router. I got lpd/lpr configured
correctly by downloading and installing apsfilter and using the setup
script therein (hightly recommended--it works).
I can print to an Apple LaserWriter Select310 connect to the Linux box
either from Linux OR the Macs (and I can use Apple's LaserWriter8.5
software on my Mac and get n-up printing--yeah). That is, papd
successfully registers the entries in papd.conf to the atalk network and
I can see and use those entries from the Macs and gets files printed.
Problems still persist, though, and thus my email to the lists.
1. When I'm sitting at the Linux box, I can send print jobs to the
printer, but only one at a time! That is, if there's a job in the queue
and I send a second print job, the second job seems to get lost. And
there's no message placed in any log file I can find. It's as if the
second print job goes to /dev/null. If I wait until the current job is
done, I can print another without problem. I'm at a loss as to why this
should happen. I thought the whole point of lpr was to queue multiple
jobs without having to wait. What's interesting, is that *from the
Macs* we can queue multiple jobs (that is, I did a test and my roommate
and I each sent a print job out at the same time, and *both* printed).
2. I cannot successfully print a document from my Mac that had embedded
postscript graphics in them, nor can I print a postscript image.
Absolutely nothing happens at the printer end. A job gets spooled, lpd
talks with the printer, but nothing ever comes out of the printer, and,
again, I can find no logging of any errors from lpd or the printer (and
yes, the lf= option does have a value in the printcap file and I did
check those files).
3. I cannot login to the Linux box via AppleShare from the Macs. When I
click on AppleShare the volume shows up in the right side window (I have
no zones, however, though I don't think that that's too bizarre since I
have no Appletalk router going, even though I did seed a zonename). Nor
can I login via AppleShareIP. Using both ways I get an invalid password
error. I know that Slackware 3.6 installs a system using shadow
passwords and I know that I compiled netatalk with shadow password
support enabled. I can successfully login to two different accounts
from a Linux login prompt.
4. I cannot establish either telnet or ftp sessions from the Macs after
I manually configure TCP/IP for our little home network (IP=10.0.0.x,
NetMask=255.0.0.0, no gateway). I CAN ping both directions (from Linux
to Mac and from Mac to Linux). When I had this box at work on a network
with values delivered via dhcp, I could establish ftp and telnet
sessions to this box from my office Mac. So far as I can tell, the only
change is in the IP/Netmask/Gateway/Nameserver values.
I know that this is a lot, and I thank you for reading this far and for
any help you can provide,
Regards,
Guy Stalnaker
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J. Guy Stalnaker
DoIT-Emerging Media Tech. jstalnak@doit.wisc.edu
5752 Tokay Blvd., Suite 200 wk. 608.263.8035
Madison WI 53719-1220 fax 608.265.6681
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