Steve Cohen wrote:
>
> I want to give access to a printer on my linux box to an Apple imac
> connected to the network.
>
> To that end, I installed the netatalk RPM on the redhat 6.1 CD.
> It does install itself and tries to bring itself up in the boot
> process but it fails. Once booted the "getzones" program also times
> out.
>
> Per some documentation I got about netatalk, I also tried removing
> the supplied /etc/atalkd.conf (which was empty except for commented
> out lines). The next bootup process created a new /etc/atalkd.conf,
> having detected my eth0 interface. But atalkd still failed.
>
> Networking itself is established. I can ping the imac for example.
> Samba works on this box as well, with a networked Windows box.
>
> So what else must I do besides install the netatalk package to get
> this working? All the documents are long on "how to compile the
> package" (as usual) but short on what you need to achieve a minimal
> setup.
>
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Well, the main responsibility of sharing the printer with MACs is papd,
and you must have that properly configured as well. The request from the
mac is passed off from atalkd to papd (for a print request) and papd
will pass this off to ghostscript or other pre-processing filters that
you maybe running. Remember that MACs only print PS and unix and most
printers doent really understand PS and must be converted to something
that the printer DOES understand. So as i see it the process is like
this:
MAC print request --> atalkd --> papd --> ghostscript and lpr
I have this all working here very nicely, if you want, email me off list
and i can show you my configuration files in more detail.
HTH
Regards
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