Moving to default AppleTalk network

This is more of a AppleTalk Printing environment question.
Currently we have all our HP Laserjets and Canon Copiers on a named AppleTalk network that is named/hosted by an old and good for nothing Compaq Poroliant Server. It does nothing at this time but host the named AppleTalk network all the printers are on.
Without it, prints don't happen. IP printing is not as reliable an option as I've tried to switch to it before.
My goal is to shut down the Compaq and switch all the printers over to a non-specified Appletalk network. I know this is possible, I'm just not sure what to enter in the AppleTalk network name for the printers. Is it "*" or "default" or just leave it blank.
If you have a moment please take a look at your printers if you are printing through an "unammed" AppleTalk network and post your feedback.
thanks for your time,
r a j a

In Sys Prefs Network, under "Location" drop down menu, choose "New Location" and set it up as need be. If you already have half a dozen "Automatics" then choose "Edit Location" and edit each one, one at a time, and rename each one appropriately to reflect the network and/or its settings and/or location. For example, I've got three locations defined, named "Airport" (for wireless), "wired" (for ethernet), and "cell phone" (for dial-up over my cell phone), each configured appropriately for 802.11, RJ-45, or PPP access, as appropriate.

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What sign are you looking for? I think you're being distracted by all this talk about Appletalk. You won't automatically see the disks of the other computers, nor will you automatically see the shared printer from the other computers. Once computers are on the network, which your are if, for example,you can browse the internet, then in order to see each other's hard disks you have to mount them.
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File loss moving files to a network share

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Lawrence

Satoru Murata wrote:
And moving a file from one directory to another on the same drive is "physically" possible?
Actually, yes. They are fundamentally different. The actual file itself does not change. There is one copy of the file. There is also (at least) one hard link to the file. The hard link is what you actually see in the file system as a "file". In a true move operation, you create two links to the file. There is then one physical file with two pointers to it. Then, after that 2nd link is successfully created, you "unlink" the first one. Correspondingly, to "delete" a file, you just "unlink" the one and only link to it. Time Machine, for example, make extensive use of links to create snapshots of your files. These links are only possible on a single file system.
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We should. But this is not a bug that should really affect anyone. I'm quite sure that there are more people who, after hearing about this, have tried to use a move across volumes than have ever tried it before. Yes, it is a bug. Yes, you could lose data. But it is a minor operation that few people knew about until recently.
And there's no guarantee that when you hit the "Send" button in Mail your e-mail will reach its destination. Perhaps you should snail mail it. Strike that, the USPS is even less reliable. Go deliver the mail in person.
That is a poor analogy. You still have a copy of the sent mail in your system. A better analogy would be to click "send" and then immediately deleting your copy of the sent message. Surely, that would be foolish. And I prefer DHL. I have had much better luck with them.
No one friggin' needs to use a computer, but a lot of people WANT to. And I'm saying there are people, if you can get it in your stubborn little head, who WANT to use Move instead of Copy, go back to original file/directory, click icon, drag to trash, empty trash, and click OK in confirmation dialog (which, by the way, is a few more than "one additional key" that you allude to).
My goodness! No need to get so upset
You can move files to new volumes all you want to. It is always going to be a risky operation, riskier than copying and then deleting. When Apple releases a fix, the risk will decrease, but I would not advise using it, on any platform.
First of all, who the heck are you telling me I'm the minority so I should just bite the bullet? Since apparently you're such an aficionado of the Terminal, which only 5% of Mac users use on a daily basis, I guess you would be just fine and dandy if there was a glaring bug in Leopard that prevented you from using it "until the software update is available", huh?
I'm "random guy on the Internet". I thought you knew that. That is an interesting question. I have always liked UNIX and I'm particularly fond of the Mac giving me the best of both worlds. But, I have to admit, I was a very happy Mac user long before MacOS X, so I think I could survive.
And second of all, you obviously think I'm some Vista troll or something, but I certainly am not, and it's quite insulting. I'm usually the first one to come to Apple's defense when need be. And, as I mentioned in my first post, I agree that this "problem" is totally overblown on various sites. HOWEVER, you are just an idiot fanboy of the worst kind if you maintain that there's really nothing wrong with this bug and suggest that, and I quote:
Really, the only reason for even attempting this operation is so you can get on the Internet and post a message about how Apple's horrible bug has caused you to lose data.
No, I didn't think that much about you at all. I was just trying to explain the difference between moving vs. copying and how those operations changed when performing them across two different file systems. I admit I am a bit sensitive about the Mac. I try not to evangelize anymore. I do try to respond to FUD when I see it. There has been a lot of that recently with Leopard.
I never said this wasn't a bug and that it shouldn't be fixed. I said it was a bug in a non-default behavior that few people even knew about. I also said that even attempting a move across file systems (even without this bug) is not a wise idea. It has a fairly high risk factor, a fairly low convenience factor, and no savings of space or time. It is my opinion that the only reason people care about it is so they have something to bash Apple about. I wasn't including you, personally, in that category. I was just trying to explain my thinking.
I know I'm fighting a losing battle here. In the "marketplace of opinions" the matter is already decided. Leopard is just as buggy as Vista, if not more so. I've never used Vista, so I can't say for sure. I know the Leopard is perhaps the best, fastest, most bug-free system I have ever used in 25 years. But you wouldn't think that from reading the Internet commentary-du-jour.

MOVED: MSI Neo2-P network cable unplugged

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Please posts more of your rig and list in details of your PSU and Bios Revision and put it in your Signature!! Is your network cabling ok or not? Loosing? Tried to unplugged the cable and if you're using a switch hub tried to changed other ports.

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Printing to an AppleTalk network printer

I need a serious guru here... someone versed in AppleTalk and Windows XP and maybe CUPS.
My workhorse laser printer is an old HP LaserJet 4MP, circa 1992. Nevertheless it works fine and I want to keep it that way. It's an Appletalk printer which means it only speaks Appletalk. It's connected to my wireless home network via an AsanteTalk bridge. It prints about 4 pages per minute (wow).
If you want to add this printer in OS X, it's easy: it simply shows up as both a shared printer and an Appletalk printer in System Preferences > Print and Fax. Select it and that's pretty much all I need to do. Obviously I've been using this printer since System 7 using its built-in drivers. No other drive software was ever necessary. Like everything Apple, it just works.
I'd like to be able to use this printer from my employer-supplied Windows XP laptop. I'm not well versed in Windows, but I've been able to muddle through setting up networked printers in the past. But I can't seem to find this printer using Window's "add printer" thing.
I've tried entering the URI for this printer which CUPS reports is pap://*/HP%20LaserJet%204MP/LaserWriter. I've tried underscores and spaces instead of %20 but Windows can't find the printer.
Even after getting Windows to recognize the printer I suppose it would only print gibberish unless I could find a way for Windows to speak Appletalk, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Any insight appreciated. Yes I know I can buy a brand new wireless printer for less than a replacement toner cartridge; I'm more motivated by geekdom here.
Next I'll tell you about my Appletalk Imagewriter II.

Ian Keller wrote:
I was aware of newer Macs autosensing but I didn't realize the AsanteTalk depended on that.
The AsanteTalk is built in a conventional manner in that it expects to be plugged into a switch or hub. That's the normal way of doing things. Apple just makes things convenient by making their computer ports autosense. I guess our Airport Extreme ports don't (though the newer ones might).
As I recall the AsanteTalk included both straight and crossover cables when I bought it years ago. They still sell them, so I suppose there's still a market for Appletalk. From what you determined I now suspect Time Capsule doesn't support it, which is a disappointment since I think it would be a simple code modification not requiring any additional hardware.
When it was connected to the Airport Extreme (spaceship 802.11b/g variety) I wasn't seeing anything with the atlookup command. I tried the simultaneous rebooting/atlookup trick but that didn't work either. So I switched the AppleTalk to ethernet, plugged in directly to my laptop and it saw everything right away. So plugged it back into the Airport Extreme, switched AppleTalk back to Airport and it showed up immediately.
You may find that your AsanteTalk stops operating in a similar manner after a power failure that simultaneously affects both it and your Extreme. Asante devotes a lengthy procedure for addressing that in their FAQ. When I investigated that phenomenon years ago, Asante blamed it on a bug inherent in the Appletalk architecture. The "repeated atlookup while powering up the bridge" technique works for me. You ought not to have to disconnect / reconnect cables each time you have a blackout. Anyway, now that you know it works and what it looks like you'll be able to reconfigure it easily next time.
Not sure if that's clear. ... What I don't know, and I'm too tired to experiment with right now, is what would happen if my laptop were in another room and I was getting my wifi from the TC instead of the AE. I suppose I would not be able to print, for the same reason that the iMac can't.
Perfectly clear, and I would agree with your suspicions. I'm sure given enough thought, you'll come up with a clever architecture that would mitigate the problem.
But thanks to you I'm happily printing remotely with a 13 year old printer.
Got you beat! My ImageWriter II still prints wirelessly from all my computers running TIger. It's over 20 years old and built like a tank. I like my HP too, but it's hard to justify maintaining it when I can buy this wireless laser printer for little more than the cost of an HP LJ 4MP toner cartridge. I'm committed to keeping it operating until that needs replacing, so keep an eye on the thread in my previous post.
Glad it's all working for you!

Moving TM disk from Network to USB: cannot see previous backups

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I have decided to move my external USB disk from the Airport Extreme USB port to my computer USB port to speed up backups and restores.
Unfortunately it seems that I cannot see anymore previous backups in the disk using TM.
The disk was accessed through the network and it was setup to have user level access to it: each user have his folder on the disk.
So, what I have done is to move back the disk to my computer, I have run disk utility to check and fix the disk since when the drive is attached to the AE with user privileges, it will report errors once you connect back to the computer. Once that permission errors were addressed, I have moved the time machine backup to the disk root and I have told TM to use this new disk as backup location.
Then I have made a new backup to the disk and it seems that TM was able to detect the previous backups because it has added only few GB to the backup.
Then I have moved to a random folder were I have made changes, and I have started TM: when I do that, TM window will switch me back to "MyComputer" where I can see all drives.
I can move around but I am unable to move back in time, like there are no other backups.
TM backup file is about 140 GB and I can fully access it by using finder: I see that all previous data is there, but TM cannot see it.
I have not changed computer name,
I have tried to use the TM option to "open other TM disks" but It doesn't show any other disk in the select window.
Does anybody know what is happening and how I can try to fix?
thanks!

Thanks for the replies,
I would like to move from a wired network TM backup to a local firewire/USB backup.
So the first error I have made is to have deleted the user directory in the Airport Extreme external USB disk: I have moved the TM sparse bundle file to the new location but I didn't noticed that other hidden files were there.
Second, I was unable to browse the older TM backups using TM and it seems that I cannot "browse other TM backups" using such TM option because the window were not showing me any drive.
I have then realized that I have to mount the sparse bundle to see it in such TM option: then it seems to work perfectly.
So there is no need for me to find a solution to use again the same backup with the local disk: if I need something in future I will use the TM option to browse other backups and I think I will be able to recover any file from there. May be I cannot recover mails in this way.
I think it is also possible to fix by using the procedure listed in the previous link: I didn't try just because I don't want to spend more time on this issue and because I have not enough free space on other drives... but...
...it should be enought to:
1- connect a new drive to the computer;
2- mount the old TM sparse bundle image;
3- use SuperDuper to copy all contents of mounted sparse bundle image into the new attached drive;
contents of the sparse bundle image seems to be equal to the structure and names used by a new fresh backup on a local USB disk, so I suppose that it could work... if someone wants to try a tell if it is so... thanks!

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"Moving a project from network L: drive to C: drive - how do I relink the files?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS3D22F379-B6C7-4d8c-9548-26AA3E1EA74F.html
In the above thread "Moving a project to another computer" it states the assets should retain their file names and folder locations so that Premiere Pro can find them and relink them to their clips in the project automatically and although I'm only a novice PP user that is standard advice for any software. However I can't find advice anywhere on how to swap a project from one disk drive to another on the same computer.
What I want to do is move the project media files off my network (L:) drive to the C: drive of the editing computer as all the advice on here about disk drives is not to use network drives. I've copied the files over but how do I replace the media file links within the PP project which are currently pointing to the sub-folders on my L:drive with replacement one's pointing to the same folder names but with the path as C: drive. Sorry if it is a numpties question but I'm not finding the answer via search.
Reason for shifting project - for some reason the sequence files were being lost when I reopened the project so I had to reuse the last good auto-save despite loss of some editing work and the project had also suddenly started taking up to an hour to load all the linked media. Given the advice about not using network drives decided to eliminate one of the possible causes before going any further with risk of losing the edited file..

I strongly agree with Jim on where to relocate the Project and media files.
Now, when you do Move the files, the Paths (absolute) in the PRPROJ file(s), will no longer be correct. The drive letter will have changed.
When you Open your Project from its new location, you will get a question dialog, "Where is file _____ ?" for the first Asset, where the link is now broken. Using the Finder, navigate to the folder, where that first missing Asset is NOW located, and select that. PrPro will then look in that folder, and will automatically relink to all Assets in that folder. If you have your Assets in multiple folders, you will need to repeat, for each folder, and again, PrPro will relink to all Assets in THAT folder. Depending on the folder/sub-folder hierarchy, you will have to repeat for all folders.
When all Assets have been relinked, I would immediately do a Save_As, incrementing the Project's name, so as to NOT overwrite that original Project file - just in case you ever need to revisit that.
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