vutien@secto.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Vutien CAP SESA - TDV) (02/25/91)
We have <ONE> Mac II ci isolated among a set of 12 SUNs on a LAN, with a LaserWriter Plus on a SUN server. We would like to print Mac documents created with Word 4. 1) We tried making PS files (using LaserFix) and transfered it by 1.4 Mb disk to a SUN then print it. The LaserWriter blinked for a while and spitted out a blank page (the document was supposed to be 10 pages long) Anybody knows why ? 2) Once this question solved, the best think would be to hook-up this Mac to the network. What are the hardware and software required to have access from the Mac to the NFS and send this PS file ? and to have access to mail and news ? Thank you for your hints and tips.
sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no (02/27/91)
In article <1991Feb25.103019.9050@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr> vutien@secto.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Vutien CAP SESA - TDV) writes: >We have <ONE> Mac II ci isolated among a set of 12 SUNs on a LAN, with a >LaserWriter Plus on a SUN server. We would like to print Mac documents created >with Word 4. ... >2) Once this question solved, the best think would be to > hook-up this Mac to the network. What are the > hardware and software required to have access from the Mac to the > NFS and send this PS file ? and to have access to mail and news ? I have a very similar situation - a few macs in a sun dominated environment. Our setup consists of the following: Hardware: An ethernet, with the macs connected directly through it by ethernet cards. For printing to UNIX based laserwriters: CAP software running on the suns, in the uab version which does not require a Kinetics gateway. Source: rutgers.rutgers.edu For using the UNIX boxes as fileservers: CAP (again), and appleshare client software on the macs (which is part of the later system distributions). For mail on the macs: Eudora or other POP client software on the macs, popper POPserver running on one of the suns. Source: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, the mac/eudora subdirectory (Eudora 1.1, there is an imminent 1.2 release on its way, available in beta form in the mac/eudora/beta subdirectory, I believe). lilac.berkeley.edu (popper 1.7. Easy to install, max. 10 minutes). For news on the mcx: TheNews, an nntp client. Needs nntp server software on one of the other hosts. Source: sumex-aim.stanford.edu, info-mac/comm (?) subdirectory. Best of luck, SIgurd Meldal