I purchased the 1TB Time Capsule to replace an AirPort Extreme.
Everything seemed to be working fine. It took a while until my hard
drive was backed up using Time Machine. But then I tried to print to my
AppleTalk printer connected to one of the Time Capsule's Ethernet LAN
ports. It didn't work!

I tried adding a new printer, but it did not appear in the list under
AppleTalk. The only way I could get it to work was to use the old
AirPort as the Base Station, and configure the Time Capsule to extend an
existing wireless network. In this configuration, the printer is
connected to a LAN port on the AirPort Extreme.

The latest firmware was installed on the Time Capsule before the problem
was observed.

Has anyone else had this problem? Did Apple outsource the Time Capsule
to a company that doesn't know how to support AppleTalk?

I realize that AppleTalk is "frowned upon" by many IT people because its
continual chatter uses network bandwidth. However, that bias stems from
a time when networks were MUCH slower than they are today.

Fred

In article nntp.aioe.org>,
Fred McKenzie aol.com> wrote:

Does your ethernet printer have an address that's compatible with the
TC's?

... ignorant ...

... alleged ...

In article newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
Gregory Weston splook.com> wrote:

Gregory-

Yes, if you mean an IP address. That is assigned via DHCP, the same as
with the AirPort Extreme. However, I'm not sure an IP address is needed
for AppleTalk to work.

If you mean an AppleTalk address, I don't know how that works. Why
would it be different between the Time Capsule and the AirPort Extreme?

Fred

Fred McKenzie aol.com> wrote:

AppleTalk and IP are independent protocols with different addressing
schemes. In network protocols terms, they use different Ethernet frame
formats, so a router which looks specifically for IP (and related
protocols) would ignore and discard AppleTalk packets. A simple "layer 2
bridge" should correctly forward AppleTalk along with IP.

In article nntp.aioe.org>,
Fred McKenzie aol.com> wrote:

LOL! You're kidding me, right? Have you ever compared the chattiness of
Windows file sharing services with AppleTalk? The amount of network
bandwidth used byWindows file sharing services (which are *far* more
prevalent on most IT-run networks) in every IT-run network I've ever
used is simply enormous in comparison!

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