Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!njin!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!demarsee From: demarsee@deadhead.syr.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Accessing a LaserWriter from A/UX *and* MacOS Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 01:51:12 GMT References: <1285@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <9106040115.AA14683@melmac.umd.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Syracuse University Lines: 21 In-reply-to: steveg@melmac.umd.edu's message of 4 Jun 91 01:15:39 GMT In article <9106040115.AA14683@melmac.umd.edu> steveg@melmac.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes: > 1. The best way to do it is to put the laserwriter on localtalk > with the MacOS machines. Then, the AUX machine and run an lpr > server for itself and the other UNIX machines. If your MacOS > macs have ethernet, then you will need a router of some sort > for the printer. I've tried this, and it works fine ... however, you are tied to whatever printer has been chosen by the Chooser/at_cho_prn. Is there a way that an AUX box can spool to an appletalk-based laserwriter by bypassing the Chooser? Maybe with an entry in the printcap file for zone and printer name, such as zn=OtherZone and pn=OtherLaserWriter? I'd like to be free to choose whatever device *I* want to print to from AUX while machines that spool through AUX can still print to whatever other devices are out there. Many Thanks & Regards, Darryl E. Marsee Syracuse University demarsee@gamera.cns.syr.edu