Re: IIGS + PowerMac via AppleTalk

[dinarich@epfl.ch (Mirko Dinarich)]

Dustin James wrote:
>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)?

no problemo you can share a disk or a folder for the AppleIIgs with
the share command.

>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?

For the IW II you can buy the appletalk card in order to put it on the
network, for the StyleWriter you have a major problem: the IIgs StyleWriter
 driver is only for direct connection.

>
>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.

Yes, if you find the package Freedom of Press you can setup a postscript
spooler for your printer (a lot of printer are supported); with this setup 
you can use your printer with the IIgs (using the laserWriter driver) and
with your PowerMac (using either the LaserWriter driver or the specific 
driver). Keep in mind three things: for some printer you should have a parallel
card or a serial/parallel converter (for exemple PowerPrint), the color
is not well supported (no color matching support), Freedom of Press is not 
native.

I use a DJ 500c hooked to a PM8100 via a serial/parallel converted and it looks
like a fast networked postscript color printer, and it works also for my IIGS 
too

>
>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
>
>



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