I'm late to this thread, but this info may be helpful. I have a home LAN; SBC DSL SpeedStream 5260; Linksys WRTG54G; G4 Digital Audio 10.4.3; G3 AIO OS 9.2.2; Laserwriter Pro 630; PC Celeron 1.3 Windows XP Pro; various G3 iBooks and G3 PowerBooks connected wirelessly, and all can see and print off the LaserWriter Pro 630. I don't think I did anything special to get this set-up to work. The computers are all online, the G4 will share files with all the machines, the G3 AIO will share with all but the PC (which I think could be accomplished, but I don't need them to talk.) This may all be useless information, but I thought I'd throw it up just in case it is helpful. >> I replied earlier and said I had some success at last with LocalTalk >> Bridge. I have been wondering lately what might be the difference >> between this and the LaserWriter Bridge, better support for the Apple >> laserwriter models? Might anyone know? > > The LaserWriter Bridge software will only bridge to laserwriters (or, I > believe, other AppleTalk printers). The LocalTalk bridge that you are > using will bridge to any localtalk device. So you can use it for > printers, or file sharing, or whatever localtalk needs you have. > > In your case, since you only want to bridge to a printer, it makes no > difference which you use. > > However, IIRC, the LaserWriter Bridge software does not work with Open > Transport. And OS 9 does not work with Classic Networking... so you can't > use that version anyway (nor would you want to even if you could, as > AppleShare over TCP/IP, which you need for file sharing to Tiger, does > not work over Classic Networking... so you want/need to use Open > Transport, which limits you to the more powerful LocalTalk Bridge > software that you are currently using) > > -chris > <http://www.mythtech.net> >
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