Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!amdahl!amdcad!diablo!phil From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PC printsharing on Ethernet? Message-ID: <26774@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 23:05:08 GMT References:Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Distribution: comp Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 14 In article pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu 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. I believe that TOPS is supposed to do what you want. I haven't tested it in that mode, however. -- Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil "Nonviolence works! India hasn't had to use their nuclear weapons yet."