RE: [WinMac] Connecting a LW 12/640

Tim Honl(honl[at]mgi.com)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:27 -0500

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Yeah, but if the wintel machine is a Win 95/98, your macs wont be able to
see the printer. Trading One set of problems for another.

Best bet is COPS or MacLan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu]On Behalf Of Darron Spohn
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 10:43 AM
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Connecting a LW 12/640
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>
> Thomas Roth 8/20/98 8:19 AM said
>
> >>From: Peter Lau <pkhlau@carmen.murdoch.edu.au>
> >>I am currently attempting to connect a LW 12/640 onto an
> Ethernet network
> >>consisting of a mix of Power Macs and Pentium II (urgh) machines. The
> >>Wintel machines are using Microsoft Networking for file sharing
> and print
> >>services, however I cannot seem to be able to get these Wintel
> machines to
> >>print (via ethernet). The Power Macs can print to the printer
> easily, but
> >>the Wintel machines can't. Any suggestions?
> >
> >That's because Windows computers don't come with AppleTalk protocol. You
> >don't mention what your using for a network server. I'd think you'd want
> >to connect the printer up to a network print queue so all
> computers (Mac &
> >Windows) could print to it easily.
> >
> >
> >
> Another option we used here for a while (until we set up a print queue on
> an NT server) was to connect the LW 12/640 to one Windows computer via a
> parallel cable, then use Printer Sharing on that computer to give the
> other Windows computers access to the printer. Not as elegant a solution
> as a print server, but less expensive if you don't already have an NT
> server.
>
> Darron Spohn
> Publications Manager
> PinPoint Software
> http://www.clicknet.com
>
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>
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