Re: Apple Macintosh computers/appletalk/ethernet

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:31:40 EST

At 11:02 PM 3/27/96, Robert Brinkley wrote:
>Many of our macs have appletalk ports. We purchased imagewriter and
>laserwriter printers and they are connected to these appletalk ports. We
>have 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.

You need one of the following (from least to most cost): the Apple
LaserWriter Bridge, the Apple LocalTalk Bridge, the Apple Internet Router,
or a hardware router of some sort. All of these connect the LocalTalk
network to the Ethernet (EtherTalk) network in one way or another. We use
the LaserWriter Bridge for this because it's free (it comes on the network
installation disk). Any of the software solutions needs to run on a Mac
that is connected to both networks, and is on basically all the time (so
the other Macs can print through it).

Your other option is to go into the Network control panel and switch back
and forth between LocalTalk and Ethernet. The problem there is every time
you switch you'll break all your existing network connections (it warns you
about this when you make a change).

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