Hi, I'm setting up a few old Performas as a workgroup in my wife's
classroom. (There's a 5500/225, an LC575 and two 580CDs which have been
marginally upgraded with 6200/75 motherboards and a LaserWriter Personal
300.)
Only one of the machines has an Ethernet card, and there is no spare
Cat5 hub / switch we can use so I've found some PhoneNet adaptors for
LocalTalk on the serial port using RJ11 telephone cables. At this stage
I've only got as far as making the physical connections & finding a
driver for the L300, and we ran out of time. I haven't yet even tested
network connectivity but I already have some questions which I'm hoping
someone can answer for me and possibly save us some time by trial and error.
1) What's the best way to connect the printer to the network? I've
noticed that some printers have specific "Apple Talk" chooser
extensions, but I can't find one for the LW300. I tried giving the
printer its own PhoneNet adaptor but the puter said it couldn't find the
printer & to check it is directly connected etc. so I'm wondering if I
should instead have one machine as "pritn server" and the LW is directly
connected to (say) the modem port, with all the Performas linked up via
PhoneTalk on the printer port?? The LW300 doesn't have an Ethernet port
by the way.
2) Assuming I go with the second setup above (printer server) how do I
share the printer? What sort of chooser extension do I need on the
"client" machines? Will the normal LW300 extension work for the clients
when they don't have a directly connected printer?
3) The second-hand PhoneNet adaptors I found came with home-made
terminators (RJ11 jacks with a resistor inserted) but I noticed that
some of them are set up with the resistor inserted into pins 1 & 4,
whereas other ones are in 2 & 3. The phone cable I'm using is only
2-conductor (2 & 3.) Is this a problem, or will this setup work? Tried
Googling it but didn't find the answer, except that network performance
is reduced without the terminator. Couldn't find out if you need
4-conductor phone cables but I'm beginning to worry that I might.
Thanks all for any help you can give.
Matthew
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