[lug] Trying to set up print service for a iMac, need help (more info)

[Paul E Condon]

I've got some more info on my problem. Hopefully it will be useful
clues for someone who knows more about how to fix this. Info is bottom
posted to make a more readable presentation.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:27:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:23:58PM -0700, Charles Hutchinson wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 February 2004 08:27 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > I have recently acquired a Ruby iMac DV, which I am connecting to my
> > > home LAN. I've installd netatalk on the Linux machine which has big
> > > disks and printer attached. There is no problem with file sharing. The
> > > Mac found the shares and allowed me to create a desktop icon for each
> > > just fine. But I see no indication of the printer. Netatalk docs
> > > indicate that it does do printer sharing, but are sort of sparse on
> > > how. The iMac is running OS 9.2, which, I'm told, does not support
> > > CUPS.  What I read in netatalk doc is that it passes print requests on
> > > to lpd pretty much without modification. But I am running CUPS for
> > > other reasons. Also, the netatalk docs indicate that one really
> > > doesn't need a papd.conf file, unless one is trying to do something
> > > special, but don't indicate what they consider special. As far as I
> > > can tell, it should just work, but it doesn't. Does anyone have any
> > > experience with this? Any ideas?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > 
> > Mac OS9.X is capable of printing to LPR printers which I am fairly sure CUPS 
> > can emulate.  Using the desktop printer utility you can create a printer 
> > object on your mac desktop pointing to your Linux machine and the print queue 
> > on it.
> 
> Now I reveal the depth of my ignorance: What is desktop printer utility? 
> 
> I have tried choosing a printer in chooser. At first there was none to
> be seen when I clicked on the LaserWriter 8 icon in Chooser. Then I made
> a dummy entry in papd.conf and restarted netatalk. After that there appeared
> a LaserWriter entry that I could select, and a button labeled 'Create'
> When I click on that the barber pole patience bar appears and after about
> 30s the whole chooser window disappears and there is no desktop printer icon. 
> 

I editted the papd.conf
file to contain:

LaserWriter: \
	:

as is recommended in netatalk docs for default setup. 

After this LaserWriter 8 seems to function as the desktop printer
utility. It needs to be given a PPD file. When given the PPD file from
HP that if for my laserjet (HP LaserJet 5MP), it produces a desktop
printer icon. But when I send a file to the printer from MS Word for Mac,
I get an error message that the printer is not responding, so, it appears
that there is yet more setup to be done, but what?

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at peakpeak.com