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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:47:58 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: RE: Mac & plotter

At 04:02 PM 02/27/2000 -0800, TheBong Pipe wrote:
>
>>   Did you download NETALI?  The docs discuss how you must use this when
>>using NETATALK.  I believe that you must compile NETALK with a certain
>>command in the make file - then install NETALI.

If he hadn't done this, I don't think papsrv would have compiled, unless,
possibly, he had CAP installed too.

>>Also, my papsrv has not started in the past when my papsrv.conf had bogus
>>commands in it.

But it should leave some messages in /var/spool/ppr/logs/papsrv.

>Ok, I'm checking it out on Tuesday... But I still have a question (perhaps 
>it can sound silly): can I run papsrv and afpd(netatalk file services 
>daemon) together? Won't they conflict somehow?

No, not if they don't attempt to advertise exactly the the same name.  In
AppleTalk, the concept of a machine name doesn't really exist as it does in
IP.

Afpd, on a machine called "mouse" by default would advertise
"mouse:AppleShare@My Little Zone".  But you could change that to "My Big
Server:AppleShare@My Little Zone".  Becuase the type is "AppleShare", it
can only conflict with other AppleShare servers, on the same machine or on
other machines in the same zone.

As for papsrv, it will advertise whatever names you tell it to advertise in
papsrv.conf.  For example: "myprn:LaserWriter@My Little Zone" wouldn't
conflict.  It wouldn't conflict even if it were
"mouse:LaserWriter@My Little Zone" because the types are different.  (One
is "AppleShare", the other is "LaserWriter".)

I am less sure what papd will advertise.  On my computer, without a papd
configuration file, it advertises "mouse:LaserWriter@My Little Zone".  If
you want papsrv to adverties a printer called "mouse", you will have to
disable it.



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