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quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Quent Johnson) writes:

>eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes:

>>Does anyone out there know of any Unix-based printer sharing software that
>>allows me to print Mac files on my Sun LaserWriter ?  -- i.e. I want my Sun
>>LaserWriter remain attached to the back of my Sun-4 (running SunOS 4.0.1),
>>that is I still want my Sun to control all the spooling to the LaserWriter.

....

We are now doing this, using software called "uShare"
from IPT, phone (818) 347-7791.  uShare makes our Sun 3
(OS 4.1) look like an appleshare server. It also lets us
use printers that are on the Sun.  To any Macs on the Mac end,
the sun printers look like ordinary Mac printers, except that
they are in a different zone.  We are a class B Ethernet site,
and we bridge to Ethernet using a Kinetics fastpath 4.  I am told
that uShare also works with EtherTalk cards.

It took us a while to figure out the configuaration of the uShare files
and the Fastpath, because we are not (by any means) TCP/IP or LocalTalk
experts.  However, tech. support at IPT was first rate.  The software
has been very reliable - no crashes to date.  We have been running for
two weeks.

There was no "built-in" accounting for the print spoolers, but it was
very easy to incorporate our own accounting on the Unix end.  In fact,
we decided to use MacPs instead of uShares software, because we had the
source for that.  We modified MacPs to find the user name and page count
from Postscript files from the Mac.  Let me repeat that Mac users
do not have to Clover-K or anything funny like that.  The only
caveat about accounting is that the name used is the name in the
chooser dialog box.  There is no way we can think of of password
protecting access from the macs.

The appleshare part of uShare works fine.  I haven't done a lot
with it, but I am enjoying the ability to edit Unix files with Mac
editors.  And, unlike Tops, I don't have to worry about converting
line feeds to carriage returns - thats all invisible.

Michael Levy, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
email: mlevy@csr.uvic.ca  OR mlevy@uvicctr.BITNET