tcora@ARDEC.ARPA (Tom Coradeschi) (01/28/89)
Forwarded from <info-mac>. Can anyone help this guy out? tom c Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000 ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:30:28 PST From: doxsee@composite.stanford.edu Subject: Macs, Suns on a network I would like to include one Mac SE into a pre-existing ethernet network between Suns and PCs. The PCs are able to send postscript files over the network (w/ PC/NFS) to the Sun which acts as a print spooler for an Apple LaserWriter IInx. I would like to do the same with the Mac. Since it's likely that only one Mac will ever be hooked up to the network (Macs are many times more expensive than PC clones here in Belgium), I'm considering connecting the Mac to the network with a SCSI Ethernet connector (the slot is filled with a PC drive card) instead of a with a bridge/gateway such as Kinetics Fast Path or Gaterbox. My question is this: with a Mac connected to the network with a SCSI ethernet connector (such as Kinetics EtherSC), can I use Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) for spooled printing on the LaserWriter connected to the Sun? Is this operation relatively simple and "transparent" to the user? Also, can the Sun be used as a AppleShare file server with this hardware and software configuration? Also, is there an expert at Columbia whom I can contact directly? Thanks for the help. Tad Doxsee Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium doxsee@composite.stanford.edu (will be forwarded) doxsee%kulmech@kulesat.uucp ** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled. -- author?? ----- End of forwarded messages