steves@truevision.com (Steve Spicklemire) (05/16/91)
Hi,
I am trying to set up a hetrogeneous network in our building
and I'm having diffuculty figuring out how to do some things. We don't
have NOVELL. We have two appleshare servers, located on two (currently)
separate local talk networks. We just bought a GatorBox (and are about
to get another) and we are getting some Macs and PCs with ethernet cards.
I suspect it will look something like this:
ethernet
--------------------------------------------------------------
| | | | | | | |
mac pc mac pc GBOX GBOX pc mac
| |
local local
talk talk
net net
1 2
I hope the Mac stuff will just `work', (i.e., the macs will
`see' the printers and servers on the localtalk nets.) But
what about the PCs? Is there any simple way to let them print
on the Laserwriters on the two localtalk networks? I guess
I'm looking for a PRN: driver that knows about appletalk
(Do I need appleshare PC?) I understand that we can set up
the gatorboxen so that the VAX (if connected!) or a unix host
could print on the laserwriters (gator print?), does this help
with the PC printing if we have it? As you can see I don't
have a good feel for what's out there. Any ideas or poiners
would be heartily appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-steve