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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC printsharing on Ethernet?
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Date: 15 Aug 89 23:05:08 GMT
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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. 
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