iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) (05/25/91)
The following is an excerpt from a paper I wrote for our company. Basically if you want direct ethernet-only file AND print redirection, you have to rely on the public domain for now. The two commercial products I have looked at thus far are good. Although neither offers printing from macs to unix YET, they both plan to this year. Intercon currently plans to release a separate product (may be separate) this summer, July or so. Wollonging is scheduled for Q491 or Q192. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are looking into ethernet-based solutions to provide faster file and print redirection. There are two commercial products available that provide mounting of filesystems on the mac desktop. Testing of one product showed improvements in file transfers. Transferring a 120k file took 5 to 10 seconds. These times were very consistent during various network and system loads. Neither product provides print redirection from the mac to unix printers. They are planning on releasing updates anywhere from late Q291 to early Q192 that will provide printing from macs to unix printers. The ethernet-based products are: MacNFS The Wollongong Group 415-962-7140 Support@twg.com NFS/Share InterCon Systems 703-709-9890 We have tested the Wollongong product so far. The gatorbox does provide printer sharing from unix to mac printers via a product called gatorprint. Gatorprint will allow unix machines to print to printers on an AppleTalk network. We did not pursue this option because we felt it to be a more kludgy solution than macs printing to unix printers. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ian C. Evans -- The ICEMAN Sequent Computer Systems Inc. iceman@sequent.com Desktop Computing Platforms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------