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From: "TheBong Pipe" <thevelvet@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:53:07 PST
Subject: Re: PPR: RE: Mac & plotter

> >>   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.

I don't have CAP, only the package "netatalk +asun2.1.3-6" with the right 
other libs to work(des, etc..)

> >>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.
>

no it didn't.

>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".)
>

Thanks alot for your explanation (and patience!)




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