[comp.protocols.appletalk] Sys 6, Sys 7 & CAP -- printing in harmony!

dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.W.Tansley) (05/23/91)

Surprised this hasn't cropped up before, unless I missed something...

We wish to run a heterogenous network of Macs, some staying with System 6, 
some running 7, and all sharing Appletalk & Sun-connected Laserwriters. We
currently run CAP5 (with approrpiate patches).

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Q. I can make the appletalk side happy, by ensuring the System 6 users
use the new Laserwriter driver 6.1 (and associated bits); then users of
both Systems are happy, with no constant printer re-initialisation 
-- how can I get harmonised working to the CAP lwsrv side? (Which currently 
doesn't print anything when supplied with something from a System 7 user.)

Is there no way that the CAP5 lwsrv can be upgraded to use the Laserwriter
6.1 driver, rather than 5.2?

Does upgrading to CAP6 mean we could have both System 6 and System 7
printing to the same lwsrv service? Will this happen in the future?
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Thanks for any help, guys!

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