[NBLUG/talk] atalkd.conf question

[Mark Street]

http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/old/atalkd.conf.html

It's been a long time since I took a look at netatalk.......
This might help though.

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 21:18, dant3 wrote:
> When configuring the atalkd.conf file, one needs to do something like this:
>
> eth0 -seed -phase 2 -net 1-3 -addr 2.4 -zone enders
>
> So, my question is, how do I know what to put for -addr, or -net for that
> matter?  I have my machine on a larger network.  I just guessed at the
> -addr value. I copied the -net value from the main Linux server.  And,
> incidentally, the -zone value changed from what I had originally entered to
> the value that is on the main Linux server (I don't know why, and I'm
> wondering if it's just my imagination and I forgot to save the file the two
> or three times that I modified it).
>
> I was hoping to use my Slackware Linux box as a print/file server for a few
> Mac machines: one iMac and a couple of older machines.  That led me to want
> to configure AppleTalk on the Linux machine so all of the Macs could print.
> The iMac doesn't need AppleTalk to be running, but the others seem to
> require it.  I could use the Desktop Printer Utility on the iMac and set up
> an LPD printer, whereas the older machines don't have the Desktop Printer
> Utility.
>
> As a print server without AppleTalk, the Linux machine worked fine for my
> iMac.  When I set up all of the Macs to use an AppleTalk printer, up things
> froze.  The printer would only print the first line of a document.  The Mac
> machines complained of a PostScript error.  On the Linux machine, there was
> a growing queue of files to be printed.  I canceled the printjobs...
>
> Wait a second...I'm rambling.
>
> 1st: How important is it to get -net and -addr "right"?  Is there a
> ballpark that works?
> 2nd: Is there a better way than AppleTalk? (Maybe I could configure some
> directory on the Linux machine to print any new file.  People accessing the
> shared folder on the older Macs could save their work on the Linux file
> server if they wanted their stuff printed...)
> 3rd: Why did -zone change from -zone one to -zone "other"?  The quotes were
> added secretly behind my back by some mischievous Linux daemon, I swear.

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