[SunHELP] Seeding for apple network

[William Enestvedt]

> We seem to need a zone for some old Mac software component,
> which is I think originally from M$.
>
   Nope, it's an Apple Extensions which ets a Mac that has an Eternet
connection advertise a serially-connected printer to other computers on the
network. Sort of a poor-man's print server.
 To be exact the
> "laser writer bridge" software to have the ethernet network
> and the laser printer accessible at the same time.
>

--
Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University
WEnestvedt at jwu.edu    (401) 598-1584

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Engelien [mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:51 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
> 
> 
> Thanks James,
> 
> >You only need to seed if you are going to have zones.
 
> >You have an alternative if you have the Mac Server Software.
> >That could seed too (though I never have done it that way).
> I don't.
> 
> >If you have a Cisco router you can use the IOS versions that
> >support Appletalk to seed the net. If you need such an IOS I
> >can help.
> This is what we had for some time, but is not a desired option.
> 
> >I have seen snippets of support for Appletalk (ethertalk
> >actually) under Linux. Perhaps a Linuxboxen could seed. I
> >have never played with Apple under linux, so no idea of its
> >capabilities
> Well, I might finally turn one of the suns into a linuxbox,
> if nothing comes up for Solaris.
> 
> >(my large scale Mac networking days preceeded my Linux days).
> My large scale Mac networking days I have planned for an other
> live ... not to soon ...
> 
> Thanks again,
> Wolfgang
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