davem@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dave McWilliams) (04/10/91)
Does anyone know if there is a driver available that will allow you to use an Apple laserwriter directly connected to the modem or built-in port of your Macintosh and at the same time use Appleshare? I can do that with an Imagewriter by selecting the modem port, but the standard laserwriter driver won't let me do that. I can also do it by going to the Control Panel and switching from "Ethertalk" to "Built-in", but that makes my Appleshare connection go away. Please respond directly to: manderso@s.psych.uiuc.edu Thanks! Mike Anderson University of Illinois -- Dave McWilliams e-mail: davem@ncsa.uiuc.edu phone: (217) 244-0640 National Center for Supercomputing Applications
resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (04/10/91)
davem@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dave McWilliams) writes: >Does anyone know if there is a driver available that will allow you to >use an Apple laserwriter directly connected to the modem or built-in port of >your Macintosh and at the same time use Appleshare? I assume you mean that the only way you can get to the Appleshare server is over Ethernet. The answer is yes, you can do it, but you don't want to. Remember that LaserWriters only speak Appletalk, and then, only on LocalTalk (i.e. printer port) hardware. Your Mac is already part of an AppleTalk-on-Ethernet-hardware network by connecting to your AppleShare server. You would either have to a) put your LaserWriter on the Ethernet by buying an EtherPrint-like box (a few hundred dollars) or b) make your Macintosh a network-to-network router with either Liason or AppleTalk Internet Router software (more hundreds of dollars, and slows down your machine to a crawl). There is a serial port LaserWriter Driver available, but I have not heard great things and it is kind of old (someone correct me if I am wrong on that). pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD