Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and remote printers
From: Russell E Glaue (russ@cait.org)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1999 - 10:51:02 EDT
Do you atleast get something to print from the remote ethernet printer?
I assume you are using rm=ip.number.nnn.nnn in your /etc/printcap. I can't
get jobs to print from MAC to papd to LPR of the Ethernet printer over
TCP/IP. No one has been able to identify the problem for me so I might
assume there is a problem with the netatalk papd code in how it deals with
the BSD LPR in the Linux 2.2 Environment.
You might try using the LPR Spooling option with the MacOS Print Driver. I
believe you'll need like 8.51 or later. I use 8.6 and I can spool via LPR
directly from the MAC, although it takes too long for the job to actually
complete. But if you can print via LPR from the Mac directly to the
Printer with all the options you need, it might help you single out the
problem. Because it might be a problem getting those printting options
using the printer via LPR over Ethernet, and not be netatalk/Linux at all.
-----russ-----
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mary Stracke wrote:
> I am a relative linux newbie who works in a predominantly Mac
> environment and have set up the first linux computer in the
> department .... a dual processor (pentium III) Pi-O running nicely on
> RedHat 6.0. Netatalk has been installed and I have had no problem
> file-sharing with my test Macs. However, I'm having a lot of
> problems setting up the linux box to print to a remote (ethernet),
> postscript (dye-sub) Tektronix Phaser 450. I set up the linux box
> to print and print serve to a Tektronix color laser (Phaer 560) using
> the generic postscript filter for linux printing and no filter at all
> for the Macs. However, this doesn't work with the dye-sub. Does
> anyone have any experience or any suggestions for dealing with these
> printers?
>
> Mary Stracke
>
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Russell E Glaue, Technologies Engineer russ@cait.org
Center for the Application of Information Technologies
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