RE: [WinMac] Bridged Printer & NT | Configure a NT printer?

Jorge Herrera(jherrera[at]one.net)
Mon, 17 May 1999 10:18:57 -0400

This is actually very simple and there are several options:

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>Background
>Apple Personal Laserwriter NT
>Equipped only with a local talk port and a serial port (a D25 from memory)
>[yes, it is a serial port, not a parallel or SCSI, I've got the manual]
>Need to get it networked so it can be printed to from PCs via a network :
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>Option 1
>Hang the printer on an old networked LCIII with LaserWriter Bridge
installed
>
>Problem :
>How do I get an NT server to see the Mac (and the shared printer?) when
>adding a printer?
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Make sure that services for Macintosh are installed on the server, this will
install the appletalk protocol, go into the services control panle and
disable file sharing for macintosh if you do not need it.

When you go to add a printer, make sure you add a local printer select "Add
Port" from there and "Appletalk" or something similar will be one of the
options

>Option 2
>Use the special adapter cable and hang the printer of a networked PC
>
>Problem :
>How do I configure a custom printer (the PC is likely to be a NT box) using
>the serial, baud and parity info from the printer manual?
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The cable you will need is a simple Serial Cable, the pinouts are in the
manual. The easiest thing to do is go to a computer store and ask for a
Serial cable for an HP Laserjet printer, they are the same.

Once you configure the dip switches for serial, everything else is as with
any other serial printer.

the defaults are 9600,n,8,1

I shared several Laserwriter II NT's from a novell server for PC's this way
for a couple of years at least.

The cable solution eliminates the LCII, but it might be a tab slower. since
you are using a NT server, the users would not notice it very much,.

Good Luck.

Jorge Herrera
Brown Publishing Company

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