IIGS + PowerMac via AppleTalk

[texan@onyx.southwind.net (Dustin James)]

I'm considering the purchase of a PowerMac (yikes!! $$$$$).  I have an Apple 
IIGS (ROM 
01, 4.25 MB RAM, 40 MB HD, System 6.01, etc.)  I would like to be able to 
connect the IIGS to the PowerMac using Appletalk (or PhoneNet), then 
print to an IW II attached to the PowerMac and/or GS.  Naturally, I want 
to be able 
to use the PowerMac as a work station, not just as a server.  I'm hoping 
some of you GS gurus will have done this!!  I have a few questions:

1.  Can it work?

2.  Can I use PhoneNet for the connections ($15 for connectors vs $50 for 
AppleTalk connectors)?

3.  Will I be able to use the PowerMac to do stuff, or will it just sit 
there being a server?  Maybe have one partition on the PowerMac's HD 
serve as the AppleShare volume, while the rest is used by the PowerMac 
(ignorance of Mac's showing here)?

4.  I had originally thought I could leave my IW II hooked to the GS, 
with a StyleWriter (or like printer) hooked to the PowerMac, then print 
to either printer from the PowerMac.  But the AppleTalk/PhoneNet 
connector apparantly hooks either to the printer port or to the modem 
port, both of which are in use on the GS.  Anybody know of a way to have 
the printers hooked up as I had originally thought?  Will I have to hook 
both printers up to the PowerMac to be able to use them?

5.  Can I print from my GS to the PowerMac using a printer attached to 
the PowerMac without having a GS specific print driver for that printer?  
In other words, I want to print to the StyleWriter 2400 on the PowerMac 
from the GS, but I'm pretty sure that no print driver exists for the 2400 
on a GS.

Thanks in advance for any help or hints!

BTW, check out the Plane Apple User's Group (PAUG) home page at:

http://www2.southwind.net/~texan/paug.html

Dustin James

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texan@southwind.net           http://www2.southwind.net/~texan/
D.JAMES34@GEnie.geis.com      Dustin James