share via appletalk (papd.conf problem?)

[gary carroll]

Gary Carroll wrote:
> FC5:
> I am successfully sharing IPP to Windows and Mac OSX. I have also
> temporarily enabled LPR sharing for testing. I also need to share to Mac
> OS 9.x clients via Appletalk, but am unsuccessful at this.
> 
> I have confirmed printers are shared LPR by creating an LPR port on a
> Windows machine and printing to it. However, using the Apple Desktop
> Printer Utility on the 9.x Macs to create an LPR printer seems to work,
> but printing fails with the message that eh printer is not accepting jobs.
> 
> I cannot set up Appletalk printer because Chooser does not see any shared
> printers. I know that Appletalk services are running properly on the
> Linux box because I can access the shared directory via Appleshare from
> the OS 9.x Mac.
> 
> I am guessing Appletalk printing fails because of an error in papd.conf,
> specifically, the cupsautoadd line. 
> I have tried:
> cupsautoadd
> cupsautoadd:op=root: 
> cupsautoadd@*:op=root:
> 
> I have no zones, and simply want to share via appletalk the cups printers.
> What am I doing wrong?

I have the problem fixed, and report it here for those who may have 
similar issues. Netatalk reports that FC5 does not have cups support 
compiled in, cupsautoadd does not work. This despite running cups just 
fine.
If I add the printers manually it works perfectly.