rohigarg@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Rohit Garg) (05/13/91)
I currently own a Mac-II and am thinking of buying a NeXTStation along with a NeXT laser printer. I would like to be able to use the NeXT laser printer to print Mac stuff also. (Both the machines will be sitting in the same room side-by-side.) Some one suggested me that I should get a ethernet card for my Mac, connect the two machines, and use the NeXT machine as the print server for the Mac. Has some one out there tried this and if yes, how much does this cost? Are there any other options? Also, are there tape back-up units that works with both Mac-II as well as the NeXTStation? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Rohit Garg ======================================================================== 200 Union Street S.E. 127 Vincent Hall EE/CSci Building, # 5-225G OR Mathematics Department Computer Science Department University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Minnepolis, MN 55455 rohigarg@ai.cs.umn.edu ========================================================================
jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (05/13/91)
In article <1991May13.034039.4152@cs.umn.edu> rohigarg@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Rohit Garg) writes: > I currently own a Mac-II and am thinking of buying a NeXTStation along > with a NeXT laser printer. > > I would like to be able to use the NeXT laser printer to print Mac stuff > also. (Both the machines will be sitting in the same room side-by-side.) > Rohit - Why don't you use SneakerNet (TM) rather than Ethernet? I mean, since the Mac II can write out to a MS-DOS disk and the NeXT floppy can read MS-DOS, why don't you save your output to a PostScript file, then SneakerNet it over to the NeXT and print it from there using lpr. Sure, it's a pain, but a small pain compared to $500 worth of Ethernet equipment. Rumour has it that NeXT may soon have AppleTalk compatibility. Or then again, Apple might have Ethernet capability. Who knows? I don't. - jiro nakamura jiro@shaman.com -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem
crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (05/14/91)
CAP with lwsrv allows Macintosh systems to print to NeXT Laser Printers using the standard Macintosh LaserWriter driver and print dialog. I set it up in a couple labs. CAP is the Columbia AppleTalk Package for UNIX, and it is freely available. It requires something like a Shiva FastPath-4 or Cayman Gatorbox to do AppleTalk-in-IP (KIP) encapsulation/decapsulation, though, unless someone has taken advantage of the new NeXT KernLoad system to cause CAP to use EtherTalk instead of KIP. When that is done (or when NeXT incorporates AppleTalk support in system software, hopefully with all of EtherTalk Phase I, EtherTalk Phase II and LocalTalk) the requirements for CAP tools to work won't be as compicated and particular. Gary