[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #53 - 08/20/98

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:38:52 -0400

>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Connecting a LW 12/640
>From: "Tim Honl" <honl@mgi.com>
>Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:27 -0500
>
>
>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.
What??? You can have the printer connected to the parallel port (with a
PC) and to the Network (ethernet) card at the same time (for the Macs),
having both printing.

>
>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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Peter Egan's Fourth Law of American Life:
>> "For every action there is an equal and moronic overreaction."
>>
>>
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