[comp.protocols.appletalk] PC --> Ethernet --> FastPath Bridge --> Appletalk --> printer ?

vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella) (05/03/91)

Ok, here's one for you master netwrok routers:

We have a local network that is a hybrid between an Ethernet network
and an AppleTalk network. All the Macs have AppleTalk connections,
and some have Ethernet connections; hence they can all share a printer
through AppleTalk.

Some PCs have AppleTalk connections (and AppleShare software) -- they, too
can share the printer.

But some PCs only have Ethernet connections. Is there a way to route
output over Ethernet to the printer on the AppleTalk network?

We have a (Shiva) FastPath bridge in the system.

I'd appreciate any guesses.


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Vincent Mazzarella
College of Medicine, Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
e-mail: mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu

rpike@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (05/08/91)

We have not found a way to do it directly but we have been successfull using a Novell server with a mac NLM and setting the laserwriter up as a print queue on the server.