On 11 Jun 2005, at 10:07 AM, T & M Grist 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.
Hi Mathew,
You should be able to just have the Appletalk printer as a node on the
Localtalk network. All other Macs should see the printer in their
Chooser.
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.
No need for a print "server" (see above).
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.
I think two wire is fine. It helps to Share a folder on each Mac/Node
as then you can "see" all of the machines in the Chooser, it inspires
confidence as you go along.
Anyway here are some websites to look at.
http://www.ops.org/tech/bas_netwk.html
http://www.mac512.com/appletal.htm
regards,
Bart Hanson
Macintosh Computer Services Ltd.
tel. 381-1199
mobile. 021 154-6938
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