[WinMac] Re: Cyclone

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:45:18 -0500

>How can I get the Macintosh computers and the PC computers printing to
>this device? Can I set up a TCP print queue on the server to capture this
>device and allow the PC's to print to it or do I need to load something on
>the PC? I do not want to load an Appletalk stack on the PC's
You could load Samba on the Cyclone RIP. This is a Unix implementation of
SMB (Server Message Block) to allow you to see the PC drives. However I
am not sure if it is a printing solution. What we do at our company
(seems to be the easiest thing when you don't have a server) is load WLPR
Spooler on the Windoze 95 machines and configure it to print to the
Cyclone via an LPR port (that's what WLPR Spooler gives you since W95
doesn't have such a thing).

WLPR SPooler is shareware and you can find it by doing a quick search on
the web.

There is also ACITS spooler that does very much the same thing but is
easier to set up. To set WLPR you need the Cyclone's IP address and the
Device name (whatever is listed on the queue in the Cyclone GUI).

If you run into a lot of problems, try calling Colorbus (the makers of
Cyclone) at 1-800-RGBCMYK.

FYI, The Cyclone RIP is just a Silicon Graphics machine (running Unix and
Irix which is the Silicon Graphics GUI) and Cyclones proprietary
software, so you could also implement some other Unix LPD services which
someone else on this list might be more qualified than me to describe.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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