Re: Apple Macintosh computers/appletalk/ethernet

Jake Miller (jmiller@mail.valverde.edu)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:22:24 EST

Bob Brinkley wrote:
>Wehave LCII, III, 550 and PowerPC series macs.
>The problem is that these macs are on an ethernet network and won't
>print when logged on. We have to shut down the mac and restart it
>and NOT log on to the network to get the imagewriter or laserwriter
>printer to print.

Sonic Systems has a software product called LaserBridge that allows
you to use the AppleTalk and Ethernet port simultaneously. You can
connect up to 5 printers via AppleTalk to a computer that acts as the
"bridge" to the Ethernet network. They have a more expensive product
called Etherbridge that allows you to connect other CPUs in addition
to printers via the AppleTalk. The last time we purchased it,
LaserBridge was about $199/copy - BTW, the license propagates on the
network so you definately need separate copies for each computer that
will act as a bridge.

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