SUMMARY: Printing to LW IIg from Sun

From: Eric William Burger (ericb@telecnnct.com)
Date: Tue Jun 14 1994 - 16:47:32 CDT


Original Posting:

> Yes, we've tried CAP.
> With CAP, we can see our Mac's, but we can't find the LW IIg.
> CAP 6.0pl142
> SunOS 4.1.3 on an IPC.

Solution:
1. Specify the zone! (a winning entry)
2. Use netatalk rather than CAP.
3. One person suggested uShare [problem is that licensing is WAY
   over the top].

Thanks to:
"Stan Barber" <sob@tmc.edu>
"Jing Zhang" jing.zhang@ic.ac.uk
jairo@cesma.usb.ve (Jairo A. Medina)
per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
"Nico Garcia" raoul@athena.mit.edu
mbecker@elf.igraph.com (Mark Becker)
Ken Lam <lam@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>

Replies follow.

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> From: "Stan Barber" <sob@tmc.edu> > > You may need to turn off ddpchecksums. > > > -- > Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu or sob@academ.com > Olan uucp: uunet!bcm!sob or academ!sob > Barber Opinions expressed are only mine.

> From jing.zhang@ic.ac.uk Thu Jun 9 08:31:02 1994 > > I had similar problems when I was running CAP. Now I use netatalk, it > works OK. However, the following might be of help to resolve your > problems. > > Under netatalk, IIg is still not visible to nbplkup (like atlook) unless > the zone is specified (Netatalk can be phase II gateway). I must say I > never manange to find IIg using atlook before. > > -- > Jing > > ************************************************************************* > * | * > * IIIII RRRRRR CCC | Jing Zhang * > * I R R C C | IRC for Semiconductor Materials,* > * I R R C I Blackett Laboratory, * > * I R R C | Imperial College, * > * I RRRRRR C | Prince Consort Road, * > * I R C | London SW7 2BZ * > * I R R C | Tel + 44 (0)71 594 6672 * > * I R R C C | Fax + 44 (0)71 581 3817 * > * IIIII R R CCC | e-mail jing.zhang@ic.ac.uk * > * | * > *************************************************************************

> From: jairo@cesma.usb.ve (Jairo A. Medina) > > Hola: > > I cannot understand your message, but I have my LW IIg connectes > to the network and I print on it using NeWSprint and netatalk. > > -- > Jairo A. Medina > UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR e-mail: jairo@cesma.usb.ve Jairo.Medina@usb.ve > Mat. Puras y Aplicadas CESMA. voz : 58-2-9063233 9063234 > Apartado postal 89000 fax : 58-2-9063232 > Caracas-Venezuela > > From the Tropic.

> From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) > > If you don't have any AppleTalk routers, you need to specify the zone > name as '*' to aarpd, i.e.: > > ${CAP}/aarpd le0 '*' > > Hope this helps... > --Per Hedeland > per@erix.ericsson.se or > per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se or > ...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per

> From raoul@MIT.EDU Fri Jun 10 10:20:07 1994 > > Sigh. First, go to patch level 192, and make sure you configure it > with Native Ethertalk, Level 2 support. Then run atlook and atlooklws > to see if you can see it. Let us know if it's still invisible: I > can see ours fine. > > Nico Garcia > raoul@athena.mit.edu

> From: mbecker@elf.igraph.com (Mark Becker) > > Eric - > > uShare Software from IPT 805.541.3000 should let you access > your printer and let your Macs access your Sun. > > Mark Becker > > From: Ken Lam <lam@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> > Status: RO > > I have both CAP and netatalk installed. Netatalk is a bit faster. From > U. of Michigan. I use it to talk to a IIg all the time.



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