tak@doe.UToronto.CA (Tak Ariga) (01/12/90)
We are currently running a Xerox XNS server setup using several 8000 servers for file, print, clearinghouse, etc. In the future, we hope to migrate from the 1108 workstations that we are using now, to the Sun-Medley configuration. How much of the 8000 servers can we keep to serve the Suns? And specifically, can the 8040 laser printer (an Interpress printer) be used with the Suns? If so how? Perhaps someone who has made the transition can comment. Thanks in advance. _____________________________________________________________________________ uucp: ...!uunet!attcan!utzoo!utdoe!tak | Tak Ariga, Programmer Internet/BITNET: tak@doe.utoronto.CA | The Dictionary of non-domain BITNET:(last resort) TAK@UTORGPU | Old English Project Phone: +1 416 978 8883 | University of Toronto, CANADA
welch@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Arun Welch) (01/13/90)
>How much of the 8000 servers can we keep to serve the Suns? All of it, with the caveat that the 8000's have to be able to get XNS packets to/from the Suns. One sort of Sun configuration is to put the clients off of one ethernet port on the server, with another ethernet port connected to the backbone net. This keeps the server-client traffic isolated from the rest of the ethernet, which is critical if you're using diskless suns (IMHO a *bad* thing for running lisp). This will not work without some extra cost/effort, and even then I'm not sure it's possible, but if you use an appropriate router to seperate your networks, it's fine. If the 8000's and the Suns are on the same network or are on different networks that can pass XNS through the gateways, then you're fine, you don't need anything else. > And specifically, can the 8040 laser printer (an Interpress printer) >be used with the Suns? Yup. Just use your favorite method of getting to the printer (Hardcopyw, send.file.to.printer, etc). Works fine. The Medley-S fonts are *exacty* the same. Same font files, etc. I've shipped them back and forth without any problems. If you're into it, you even get Kanji fonts with the sun software by default, something that you don't with the 1100 font set. If you want to use the 8040 from other unix utilities like TeX, you need to be able to produce Interpress files, and use an xns print spooler under unix. Or, if you're willing to dedicate a dlion to act as a print spooler, we've got an lpr client somewhere around here that will spool to the XNS printer. ...arun