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Re: Network printing from PC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Watkins)
Wed Oct 19 00:18:30 1994
Date: 18 Oct 1994 23:53:22 U
From: "John Watkins" <John_Watkins@ace.nche.edu>
To: "Dane Spearing" <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Reply to: RE>Network printing from PC's???
Dane:
For PC's to print to an AppleTalk printer, the PC has to be talking AppleTalk
(meaning the AppleTalk protocol stack needs to be running). We have an
AppleTalk network of 190 MACs and about 20 PC. We are using Farallon's
PhoneNet PC s/w which allows a PC to access AppleTalk file & print services.
It also comes with Timbuktu.
John
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From: Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Network printing from PC's???
We're having a little printing problem here at Stanford:
Stanford is (was) predominantly a Macintosh-based campus, and
most of our network services are based around that platform,
including printing. A number of students are now coming in with
their own PC machines and want to be able to print to our public
printers. Unfortunately, the majority of our public printer are
AppleTalk-based. Is there any way for a PC (running, say, Windows)
to print to an AppleTalk printer over the network?
(Most of the network at Stanford is ethernet -- a mix of 10baseT
and ThinNet. So hooking up to the media isn't a problem. How
do we get the PC's to see/print to the AppleTalk printers.)
The more general question is:
How do PC's in general print to network printers? (i.e. - printers
that are not directly attached to the computer). We have little
experience with PC printing.
Many thanks!
Dane Spearing --- Residential Computing --- Stanford University
dane@rescomp.stanford.edu -- (415) 723-4800
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~dane/dane.html
