From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 4:40: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F42C37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 04:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13prj9-0008mf-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:38:19 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13prmB-0001oX-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:41:27 +0300 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:41:27 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Jaime Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Netatalk on 4.1-STABLE Message-ID: <20001029154127.B553@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Jaime , FBSD-Q References: <20001028160237.E381@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Jaime" on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 12:58:26PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jaime [20001028 20:00]: =>On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: =>> [wash@poeza:~]> papstatus -p LaserWriter =>> LaserWriter:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed => => I've been using NetATalk with the asun patches on FreeBSD =>3.0-Release, 3.2-Stable, 3.3-Stable, 3.4-Stable, 4.0-Release, 4.1-Stable, =>and 4.1.1-Stable. I've used it without those patches on several 2.2.x =>versions. Its always been great for me. So does the Macintosh on your network see the printers on the FreeBSD boxes? That is what I ultimately want to achieve. I need to use PAPD (Printer Access) as opposed to AFPD (File Access) which is working fine for me too. => => I've never needed papd, though. Only afpd. So what I'm about to =>say is a complete guess. It looks like one of the following might be a =>problem: => =>- You didn't compile a kernel with "options NETATALK" in the config =>file. Does netstat -f altalk show anything? I did compile with that...and your test is here.. [wash@alouette:~]> netstat -f atalk Active ATALK connections Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) ddp 0 0 199.119.134 *.*.* ddp 0 0 199.119.132 *.*.* ddp 0 0 199.119.1 *.*.* ddp 0 0 199.119.2 *.*.* ddp 0 0 199.119.4 *.*.* ddp 0 0 199.119.6 *.*.* ddp 0 0 *.*.1 *.*.* ddp 0 0 *.*.2 *.*.* ddp 0 0 *.*.4 *.*.* ddp 0 0 *.*.6 *.*.* => =>- You're trying to talk to an AppleTalk printer that isn't there. Maybe. I want the Macintosh to access the HP DJ Printer on my Unix box. Windows clients are doing that already...only Mac gives me a problem. => =>- You haven't configured a printer for papd. According to man papd, you =>need to configure it via /usr/local/etc/papd.conf. Very likely because whenever i try to use papd.conf, papd complains and doesn't wanna start...maybe I need to start it with some option pointing to a papd.conf somewhere??? That is my dilemna. => => Jaime => Thanks for assisting and hope to hear from you again. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. Installing a new program will always screw up at least one old one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message