[WinMac] Re: mac-pc networking on a budget

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:41:43 -0500

>The HP supports appletalk. But for the cost of getting a hub and an
>appletalk-ethernet bridge, I may as well buy another printer. This
>is a cheapo
>inkjet I have here, so it's not worth the cost of any additional hardware.
>
>I think my best option so far is to install pc maclan on the PC, use appletalk
>as my network protocol, and use either appletalk bridge or printer
>share on the
>mac (I'm not sure if either will work) to put the printer on appletalk.

        If the HP does NOT support PostScript, it won't help.
PCMacLan ONLY supports sharing Postscript devices over the net. So
even if you got all the hardware listed above, you still couldn't
share the printer - sorry!

Leonard

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