Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!news From: timm@Sed.Novell.COM (Tim Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Netware 3.11 and LocalTalk Printers Message-ID: <1991Jun17.172525.13993@npd.Novell.COM> Date: 17 Jun 91 17:25:25 GMT References: <9106171239.AA13881@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@npd.Novell.COM Organization: Novell, Inc. Lines: 27 In article <9106171239.AA13881@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Stephen I Miller writes: > I am going to be setting up a NetWare 3.11 server shortly and I have a > question concerning routing print to an Apple LaserWriter. > ... > All of our MACs are on ethernet. All of our LaserWriters are on > PhoneNet. We are connecting to the LaserWriters from the MACs via a > Kinetics FastPath 4. My question is will I be able to connect to the > LaserWriters from the DOS machines with this configuration? Yes, your DOS users will print to a queue on the server. > or do I need to buy a Dayna DL2000 card and put it in the server just for > the printers? No. The NetWare for Macintosh v3.0 print server can target printers anywhere on an AppleTalk internet. Your FastPath is routing between EtherTalk and LocalTalk so you will not need a LocalTalk card in the server. ++Tim =========================================== Tim Myers Senior Software Consultant Novell, Inc. "Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."