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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (BOSTATER,Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC printsharing on Ethernet?
Summary: Problems with TOPS
Message-ID: <1512@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 Aug 89 21:28:33 GMT
References:  <26774@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <26774@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
> |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. 

  We've had some problems using TOPS to printshare an Applewriter. If no one
  is using the printer, people with PCs can print with no problem. If there's
  other jobs pending, the file won't print. People with Macs have their print
  jobs qued properly. So far nobody here has figured out why this happens, then
  again, nobody has tried *too* hard either. Has anybody out there had a 
  similar experience?

-- 
Scott Bostater      GTRI/RAIL/RAD   (Ga. Tech)
"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him"  -Ps 62.1
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