I have a TCP/IP network of macs and PCs and a laserwriter 16/600. Will I not be able to talk mac-mac >over the network with the 814 ? I can never remember what Appletalk/ethertalk/appleshare >differences are.
Appletalk- a custom Apple protocol for use over serial
Ethertalk- a custom Apple protocol over ethernet This requires special support on the part of routers etc. for it to get to its destination.
AppleshareIP- another Apple protocol but based on regular internet packets, so it gets routed over regular hubs and switches like internet traffic (no support for custom stuff needed other than a server that can decipher it).
Look in OS what, 8.5? chooser (I forget when it got started, someone can correct me (please!). Click on Appleshare, then you have a button for "server IP address"- provide an IP, and the Mac will try and connect to an AppleshareIP Server (the last protocol above) over your internet connection. Nice for remote access. Different from regular ethertalk.
Your laserwriter 16/600- I don't know Apple laser models very well but suspect that it only knows about "ethertalk".
Connecting to your other macs- like I said, if you bought AppleshareIP Server for one of them then it would be able act as a server that clients (like the chooser on another mac) can connect to, via the Server
IP address field in their Chooser. I could be wrong but unless they bundled something into the OS when I was not looking, there is only native CLIENT support for AppleshareIP, you can't be a AppleshareIP-capable server without buying something extra. But it would be nice to be corrected. It's a proprietary Apple thing so I don't expect Stairways Software or anyone to offer a 3rd party solution. Again I'd be happy to be corrected, I've not followed this stuff much since about OS 8.5.
And while you would THINK that ethertalk would work at least on the wired side as someone else mentioned, since many routers have a switch on the wired side,but quite a few didn't pass ethertalk packets- at least when I was getting my (wired) router about 2 years ago- it took a little research to get one that supported it.
There are some neat solutions for printer sharing and it seems like someone should be able to broadcast a -talk printer on a -shareIP server but I don't know offhand of one, and I've never played with the real AppleshareIP server software. to know if it will do that for you. It might be worth checking on ebay for a installer CD :)
HTH and isn't blatantly wrong anywhere :) If you really want the printer sharing and the appletalk/ethertalk to work, try and find the MR314, I'd provide info on other models but it's the only one that I ever read about as working for that- both wireless and wired.
Brian
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