Hi Matthew;
I think you will need something called "Printer Share" or
something similar -- I can remember this being a system/chooser extension
that came with the old Style Writer II and System 7 printer sharing. I'm
sure OS 7.6, 8, 8.5 or 8.6 will have it built in there.
The LW Personal will have to be shared by the Mac physically plugged into
it, the others should "see it" via the Apple Talk network you set up
maybe? I presume the existing driver will be ok on the client.
Haven't had a close look at this issue for a while, I'm not sure if such
vague descriptions can help.
cheers,
-Daniel
At 08:07 AM 11/06/2005 +1000, you wrote:
Hi, I'm setting up a few old Performas as a workgroup in my wife's
classroom. (There's a 5500/225, an LC575 and two 580CDs which have been
marginally upgraded with 6200/75 motherboards and a LaserWriter Personal 300.)
Only one of the machines has an Ethernet card, and there is no spare Cat5
hub / switch we can use so I've found some PhoneNet adaptors for LocalTalk
on the serial port using RJ11 telephone cables. At this stage I've only
got as far as making the physical connections & finding a driver for the
L300, and we ran out of time. I haven't yet even tested network
connectivity but I already have some questions which I'm hoping someone
can answer for me and possibly save us some time by trial and error.
1) What's the best way to connect the printer to the network? I've noticed
that some printers have specific "Apple Talk" chooser extensions, but I
can't find one for the LW300. I tried giving the printer its own PhoneNet
adaptor but the puter said it couldn't find the printer & to check it is
directly connected etc. so I'm wondering if I should instead have one
machine as "pritn server" and the LW is directly connected to (say) the
modem port, with all the Performas linked up via PhoneTalk on the printer
port?? The LW300 doesn't have an Ethernet port by the way.
2) Assuming I go with the second setup above (printer server) how do I
share the printer? What sort of chooser extension do I need on the
"client" machines? Will the normal LW300 extension work for the clients
when they don't have a directly connected printer?
3) The second-hand PhoneNet adaptors I found came with home-made
terminators (RJ11 jacks with a resistor inserted) but I noticed that some
of them are set up with the resistor inserted into pins 1 & 4, whereas
other ones are in 2 & 3. The phone cable I'm using is only 2-conductor (2
& 3.) Is this a problem, or will this setup work? Tried Googling it but
didn't find the answer, except that network performance is reduced without
the terminator. Couldn't find out if you need 4-conductor phone cables but
I'm beginning to worry that I might.
Thanks all for any help you can give.
Matthew
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