Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!uvicctr.UVic.ca!mlevy From: mlevy@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Michael Levy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Unix-based Sun/Mac printer sharing + file-transfer software ?? Message-ID: <762@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> Date: 29 Aug 89 17:06:27 GMT References: <1395@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada Lines: 43 quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Quent Johnson) writes: >eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes: >>Does anyone out there know of any Unix-based printer sharing software that >>allows me to print Mac files on my Sun LaserWriter ? -- i.e. I want my Sun >>LaserWriter remain attached to the back of my Sun-4 (running SunOS 4.0.1), >>that is I still want my Sun to control all the spooling to the LaserWriter. .... We are now doing this, using software called "uShare" from IPT, phone (818) 347-7791. uShare makes our Sun 3 (OS 4.1) look like an appleshare server. It also lets us use printers that are on the Sun. To any Macs on the Mac end, the sun printers look like ordinary Mac printers, except that they are in a different zone. We are a class B Ethernet site, and we bridge to Ethernet using a Kinetics fastpath 4. I am told that uShare also works with EtherTalk cards. It took us a while to figure out the configuaration of the uShare files and the Fastpath, because we are not (by any means) TCP/IP or LocalTalk experts. However, tech. support at IPT was first rate. The software has been very reliable - no crashes to date. We have been running for two weeks. There was no "built-in" accounting for the print spoolers, but it was very easy to incorporate our own accounting on the Unix end. In fact, we decided to use MacPs instead of uShares software, because we had the source for that. We modified MacPs to find the user name and page count from Postscript files from the Mac. Let me repeat that Mac users do not have to Clover-K or anything funny like that. The only caveat about accounting is that the name used is the name in the chooser dialog box. There is no way we can think of of password protecting access from the macs. The appleshare part of uShare works fine. I haven't done a lot with it, but I am enjoying the ability to edit Unix files with Mac editors. And, unlike Tops, I don't have to worry about converting line feeds to carriage returns - thats all invisible. Michael Levy, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria email: mlevy@csr.uvic.ca OR mlevy@uvicctr.BITNET