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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!) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com