I've found my self in a tough spot with a recommendation I made
regarding the purchase of a laser printer, not helped by the fact
that they told me they had a G4 running OS X (get there and it's a G3
running 8.5.something) and decided to skimp and buy the printer
WITHOUT an ethernet card.
They have a USB laser printer, a windows 2000 PC and the
aforementioned G3 and wish to share the printer between the 2 without
hot swapping the cable.
Sharing the printer on Win 2000 creates an SMB printer share that in
OSX can be seen and hooked up to but I can't see it through OS 8.6
(which they purchased years ago but never installed)
I need to know if there is any freeware that can be run on the
Win2000 box that will allow it to share the printer via TCP/IP LPR
(TCP/IP line printer) or if there is freeware that will allow a Mac
OS 8.6 box to connect to an SMB shared printer... the emphasis is on
"FREEWARE" as they will not spend sub even the $100 for an ethernet
adaptor for the printer they are unlikely to approve something like
Throsby's "Dave" software :(
thanks in advance :)
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University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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