NFS / Printer client questions

[Dave Edmondson;E208]

In <1991May12.161032.9798 at wam.umd.edu> mikec at wam.umd.edu (Michael D. 
Callaghan) writes:
>1> Can MAC applications see the NFS mounted directories?

No problem.

>2> Can MAC applications print directly to a remote postscript printer
>   that's in A/UX's printcap file?

There are two choices.  A/UX Laserwriter by Ron Flax is a driver modified to 
pipe the print job to a Unix command which can be specified in the chooser.  
This is very neat but some people have had problems.

The release of CAP 6.0 contains a version by our own William Roberts which 
allows use of the built in AppleTalk support on A/UX machines.  This lets you 
run an lwsrv daemon which shows up in the chooser as a LaserWriter and spools 
the job of to a unix printer.  This doesn't tie you to a particular driver but 
it makes the ownership of the print jobs "root" unless you come up with a 
scheme to start an lwsrv each time a mac session starts and kill it when it's 
over.

See comp.protocols.appletalk for more about CAP.

Dave
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