I'm using a printer connected to or networked through a linux box to
print from
Macs (as well as PCs and other linux computers). In my initial
searching to
figure out how to get this to work I came across a couple of reasonably
helpful
articles:
http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-uptime_p.html
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue45/2033.html
The first article, in particular, went into a lot of detail about
setting up a
Laserwriter printer to work under linux.
Hope this helps.
MaryS
> 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
