I've got an Apple Laserwriter IIg printer, with an ethertalk interface,
and a Redhat Linux 6.1 box on my network. I want the Linux box to be
able to print to the Apple printer and to act as a print spooler for
other machines on the network.
I'm given to understand that netatalk is the tool to use for this. There
are no Macs on the network, so I'm not interested in acting as a file server.
All I'm interested in is printing.
I find the documentation a bit lean for this purpose. I downloaded
netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 and did the plain vanilla make and make install,
loading it into the default target of /usr/local/atalk. AppleTalk support
is built-in to this Linux Kernel as dmesg contains the line:
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0
But now I'm stumped as to how to even see if my Linux box is aware of
the Apple printer (it doesn't do TCP/IP) let alone configure it to print
to it.
Further pointers please!
Much thanks!
Russ
