NFS / Printer client questions
Dave Edmondson;E208
davide at cs.qmw.ac.uk
Tue May 14 23:37:55 AEST 1991
In <1991May12.161032.9798 at wam.umd.edu> mikec at wam.umd.edu (Michael D.
Callaghan) writes:
>1> Can MAC applications see the NFS mounted directories?
No problem.
>2> Can MAC applications print directly to a remote postscript printer
> that's in A/UX's printcap file?
There are two choices. A/UX Laserwriter by Ron Flax is a driver modified to
pipe the print job to a Unix command which can be specified in the chooser.
This is very neat but some people have had problems.
The release of CAP 6.0 contains a version by our own William Roberts which
allows use of the built in AppleTalk support on A/UX machines. This lets you
run an lwsrv daemon which shows up in the chooser as a LaserWriter and spools
the job of to a unix printer. This doesn't tie you to a particular driver but
it makes the ownership of the print jobs "root" unless you come up with a
scheme to start an lwsrv each time a mac session starts and kill it when it's
over.
See comp.protocols.appletalk for more about CAP.
Dave
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