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From: jsin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jonghoon Sin)
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Subject: Help printing from MacII to Unix printer
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Date: 21 Jan 91 16:10:32 GMT
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This must've been posted and answered a few thousand times - sorry:
I have a lone MacII in our group which is mainly used for documentation. It 
currently has a dedicated printer which I want to put on our Unix network
(consisting of all Sun3's and Sun4's running 4.0.3).  Actually, it doesn't 
matter to me whether the printer is connected to the Mac or a Sun, as long 
as all machines can print to it.

What is the best and cheapest way to accomplish this task?

I thought if I buy an ethernet card for the Mac, I can get ru-cap2 and uab+
packages to route the Mac's printjob to the Suns, even though I don't have
Kinetics or other bridge boxes.  Is this true?  

I have used CAP and KIP before at another site (which did have a Kinetics 
box), so I know that it is possible if I have a bridge box, but I'm not sure 
if UAB+ was designed to replace bridge boxes for this purpose.

I've obtained and perused through the docs for both ru-cap2 and uab+, but 
it wasn't apparent to me if what I want to do is possible.  What would my
bridge_desc file look like?

Are there other solutions besides CAP and UAB?

Is there an FAQ for this question?

Thanks,
-- 
John Sin   <jsin@janet.ucla.edu> ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!seas.ucla.edu!jsin
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