Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!tekbspa!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC printsharing on Ethernet?
Message-ID: <2117@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 17:15:36 GMT
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article , pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) writes:
> A new dept being set up here wants to buy a couple of PC's and a
> Laserwriter for now, and install them on an ethernet (planning
> for Suns in the future).
> 
> However, if PC-NFS is just a client server, it is doubtful that the
> ethernet can be used to share the printer. Yet it seems silly to put
> in a different LAN just for the PC's to accomplish this printsharing goal.
> 
> Suggestions for appropriate solutions will be appreciated.
> 
> Jordan Pollack

If you really expect to have Suns in the future, this is not a bad
idea -- but I think you need at least one Sun attached to your net
to serve the Laserwriter.  If you aren't concerned about future
Suns, you can use TOPS to share your printer with multiple PCs and
with Macs, though it won't be as fast as Ethernet.

Our configuration here is PCs running PC-NFS on an Ethernet connecting
all our Suns.  We have Apple LaserWriters connected to Macs on 
Appletalk.  We have a protocol converter box from Kinetics that
gateways from Ethernet to Appletalk.  It was very complicated to
get working and while I would recommend any individual component,
I wouldn't recommend all of them working together.

If you have applications on the PCs that don't talk PostScript, contact
the company below.  They sell a tool that may be of use to you.

    Niche Marketing
    7198 Camino Colegio
    Rohnert Park, CA 94928
    (707) 795-7342


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Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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