Re: [NTLK] printing from a newton via a linux box

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 09:31:45 PDT


On Apr 13, 2004, at 3:28 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:

> On 13-apr-04, at 11:17, Adam Short wrote:
>> I tried to set up an appletalk share for my printer the other day,
>> using
>> netatalk on a linux box. In theory this should work fine. nbplkup
>> shows
>> that the box is sharing the printer via appletalk, but the newton
>> (emate
>> 300) doesn't see it.
>
> AFAIK the Newt/eMate always needs an application running requesting
> it's attention, otherwise it won't work.
> On a Mac/under Windows you should have for instance NCU up and running,
> not sure what you use under Linux...
>
I don't really know what Robert is referring to in this context.

Make sure your appletalk setup preference is pointed to the right
network (ie ethernet).

What kind of network is it?

Marty
  PS it should work AFAIK

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