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From: lim@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim)
Subject: Re: LocalTalk and Ethertalk
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Date: Fri, 3 May 91 15:48:53 GMT
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In article <91122.143244ALC@psuvm.psu.edu> <ALC@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>Now, we're going to establish an AppleTalk network for the Macs which will
>run under Ethertalk. So, what I've done is install the EtherTalk 2.0 drivers,
>the Network DA and set the Network to Ethertalk. Fine, we can still talk
>to our VAX and now, the Macs can see the AppleShare file server we have
>setup also on Ethernet. HOWEVER, they CAN'T see the LocalTalk printers!
>
>Is is possible to have AppleTalk and EtherTalk running at the same time?

  No.  Unless the system is a AppleTalk router.

>We have setup a temporary solution by setting up the AppleShare machine
>with Apple Internet Router and hooking up a couple of printers on it
>using LocalTalk. That works ok, but some of the users still want their
>own printers back locally connected.
  
  What do you mean by "locally connected"?  If  the printer is connect
through the LocalTalk cabling, and is share by all users on the LocalTalk,
then you have to switch EtherTalk to Local before you can send print job
to the printer.  By switching to Local, you would not be able to access
EtherTalk until you switch it back. 

 If the printer is directly connect through the "modem" port
not the "printer" port of a system, then this system  can use the EtherTalk network 
and be able to print to this  "local" attach printer.  However, this printer would not
be able to share by other users on the EtherTalk or LocalTalk network because it
is  set up as a "local" printer.    

>
>One solution that is not possible is to rewire using LocalTalk -- too expensive
>to implement. A couple of other solutions I thought of would be running
>Internet routers on any machine that wanted their own printer -- this seems
>very CPU intensive and subject to more potential for crashing, etc. Also,
>I could put EtherPrint boxes on the printers to convert them to Ethernet. That
>seems pretty expensive.


   If you have a printer that need to use by number of users on the EtherTalk 
network, then the EtherPrint box is a pretty good solution.  However, if a
EtherTalk user just want to to print it to his/er "own" printer, then just put
the printer on the Modem port and not printer port of the system.




-- 
Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services
Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA  44106   
(216) 368-2982        lim@ins.cwru.edu
