Re: Simple IIGS-Mac network - boy i feel stupid

[spqr@ruth.uucp (Will Baguhn)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

| > 2.  An IWII attached to a GS via Appletalk requires its own Appletalk card,
| > what about an IWII connected to a Mac server?  Can it be shared via Appleta
| > without its own card? 
| 
| A Mac running System 7's file sharing cannot act as an AppleShare
| Print Server - you have to be running the full AppleShare server
| software for that.  Any networked printers are completely independent
| of the Mac.

NO NO NO!

the card is for putting in the IWII so it can recognize Appletalk 
through its serial port (Localtalk).

Printershare on the Mac end ought to work if you can't get this card, 
however i recommend that you GET this card if you're going to put the 
IWII on the network.  otherwise you're just asking for troubles, as 
well as tieing up parts of the Mac that could be used for better 
things.

| David Empson
| dempson@actrix.gen.nz
| Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand


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