[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] LPD for the Mac?

PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) (11/06/90)

I guess this is THE lpd everyone likes and that can be FTPed from some place.
What I am looking for is one that would operate as a background process
under MacTCP and print via the Mac print spooler on Appletalk Laserwriter.
Or any functionally equivalent solution.
Or a MacIntosh oriented TCP/IP mailing list as a better place to ask.
I have connected Appletalk to Ethernet with the (excellent) PCROUTE.

Many thanks in advance.

Andr'e PIRARD             SEGI, Univ. de Li`ege
B26 - Sart Tilman         B-4000 Li`ege 1 (Belgium)
pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be  or  PIRARD%BLIULG11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (11/07/90)

In article <9011060338.AA11437@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>,
PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) writes:
> I guess this is THE lpd everyone likes and that can be FTPed from some place.
> What I am looking for is one that would operate as a background process
> under MacTCP and print via the Mac print spooler on Appletalk Laserwriter.
> Or any functionally equivalent solution.
> Or a MacIntosh oriented TCP/IP mailing list as a better place to ask.
> I have connected Appletalk to Ethernet with the (excellent) PCROUTE.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 

If you just want to be able to use MacTCP and print on AppleTalk at the sametime,
you don't need a lpd.?.?  Just set the printer to AppleTalk within Chooser,
and set MacTCP to be running on your ethernet card.  There isn't much else
to it.

Now if you want to print from a UNIX box to the LaserWriter hanging off of
AppleTalk, that's a different story.

This list, so far, is about the best place to talk about TCP/IP and the Macintosh,
the only other list you could try is comp.sys.mac.comm.

Hope this helps.
--
Kurt Baumann                       InterCon Systems Corporation
703.709.9890                      Creators of fine TCP/IP products
703.709.9896 FAX               for the Macintosh.