Re: [NTLK] Printing over ethernet

From: Jeremy Bond Shepherd (jbond_at_eskimo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 19:17:00 EST


>
>Jeremy Bond Shepherd [jbond_at_eskimo.com] wrote the following 2002-01-24
>21.10:
>
> > I wanted to try it too, but my box at work doesn't have NT Server on it,
> > which is apparently required to get Appletalk services. I looked into
> > buying a copy, but it looks like it costs several hundred bucks per
> > license. :-(
>
>you dont need that licence. go to the printer, add apple talk to the active
>protocols (physically, by pressing the printer HW buttons!) and boom - there
>you go!

I used to print this way, but someone in our IT group apparently decided
that Appletalk packets should be discarded at the switch. Or something like
this. The laserjet doesn't show up in the Chooser anymore, despite having
Appletalk protocol enabled in the setup menus. :-(

-Jeremy

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