Connecting a Sun to Appletalk

[Mark A. Verber]

There are two ways that you can share a printer between a Macs and Suns.
The normal way is to wire up an LocalTalk and install a LocalTalk to
Ethernet gateway.  The LaserWriter can sit on the LocalTalk, or on a
serial line connected to your Sun.  The two suggested gateways are
Kinetics Fastpath-4 or the Cayman GaterBox (Kinetics has been in the biz
longer, Cayman does some really interesting things for file service).  To
drive the LaserWriter you can use the CAP libraries (free from
unixc.cc.columbia.edu) or the Kinetics libraries and printing applications
from Kinetics (cost ~$2000?).

The second way you can share printers is by dedicating a Mac to act as a
printer gateway.  This machine would run the PrintGate software and have
an LocalTalk connector (for the LW) and have a serial to your Sun.

Mark A. Verber						 614-292-7344
Computer Science Department
Ohio State University			    verber at cis.ohio-state.edu
2036 Neil Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43210		..!att!osu-cis!verber