[comp.sys.mac.comm] Sharing a printer between Suns & Macs

kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang) (05/07/91)

We have a a network of Suns connected via ethernet and a network of
Macs connected with Appletalk. What's the easiest (and preferably
cheapest) way of sharing a printer between the two networks?

Thanks.

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ngo@tammy.harvard.edu (Tom Ngo) (05/07/91)

Earlier today, Kenneth Chang <kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

kchang> We have a a network of Suns connected via ethernet and a
kchang> network of Macs connected with Appletalk. What's the easiest
kchang> (and preferably cheapest) way of sharing a printer between the
kchang> two networks?

I favor using the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP), available from
rutgers.rutgers.edu, which imbues Unix hosts with the ability to speak
Appletalk.  It is free and requires a gateway that can do the Kinetics
Internet Protocol (KIP).  We use a FastPath 4.

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