Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge software for Mac?

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <nobody-D563B0.22145911072001@tidal.wavetech.net>, Greg
Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:

 
> > DAVE would allow all PCs to access one Mac, but I don't know whether it
> > runs on a 68K Mac.
> 
> Not certain about the most recent versions, but I had looked into 
> using Dave on a Quadra 650 and it would have run...

The latest version of Dave requires a 68030 Mac running System 7.6 or
higher (which rules out the SE/30, IICX, IIX). Earlier versions
definitely supported System 7.5.x but they don't appear to be available
from Thursby Software.

Anyway, Dave is a bit of a dead end network solution for Apple IIs; it
is an SMB/CIFS peer to peer package primarily designed to integrate
Macs with a Windows network. In theory it would be possible to
configure a folder on a Mac server which is shared by Apple peer to
peer to AppleTalk clients (eg IIgs) and by Dave peer to peer to Windows
clients. It wouldn't achieve anything else for the Apple IIs.

> From what I remember, PC Maclan would only deal with printers that
> were on ethernet, it wouldn't talk to anything through a router.
> Didn't pay too much attention to that, had a LW IIg on ethernet and
> a DW 550c on localtalk and I don't think Windows would have printed
> to that particular printer in that setup anyways.

There are three main versions of MacLan -- for Win 3.x, Win 95/98/Me
and Win NT4/2000. They share core functionality but there are subtle
differences.

According to the docs, MacLAN (any) should print to any AppleTalk
printer for which there is a suitable Windows driver. It shouldn't
matter whether the printer is on an ethernet or LocalTalk network
segment. Was a LocalTalk interface an option for the DW 550c ?

As far as Macs and Apple IIs are concerned, printers shared by MacLAN
should be PostScript devices or ones which have a suitable Apple
driver. Can IIgs drivers such as Harmonie access network printers or do
they require a directly connected printer ?

Phil