Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!REYES.STANFORD.EDU!samb From: samb@REYES.STANFORD.EDU (Sam Brain) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Appletalk for PC's? Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 88 17:49:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 We also have lotsa PCs with 3Com cards in them, connected to ethernet, and Macs and LWs on LocalTalk. Access to LWs is easy if you have a UNIX machine on the ethernet. We run PCNFS, Sun's PC version of NFS, on the PCs, and NFS on the UNIX machine, a VAX in our case. We also run the CAP code on the VAX and use papif as spooler. The PC users just issue a "NET USE lpt1: \\hostname\printername" command (usually in the autoexec.bat) where "printername" is the UNIX name of the LW printer (the name in /etc/printcap), and bingo! all the output to lpt1: ends up going to the LW. The PCNFS package comes with a copy of a daemon, pcnfsd, which handles the print requests on the UNIX box. It all works very well, here. The LWs are accessed by PC- VAX- and Mac-users alike. Sam Brain Department of Radiation Oncology Stanford Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305.