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Started by J.Cassidy - Optometry
Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:31
Re: Next to Mac networking
Author: J.Cassidy - Optometry
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:31
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:31
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In article <1992Dec14.222737.8820@pencom.com> you write: >Hi All, >I am trying to connect my wife's mac to my NeXT so she can print on my >printer. >Anyone out there do this? What hardware do I need? >I will post a summary if there is enough intrest. > >Bill Dudney >dudney@pencom.com Greetings. I have a NeXT station and a MAC Quadra and a PC at home. They are connected with thin coax Ethernet. I purchased a product from IPT, named Ushare that allows the Quadra to print onto the NeXT's laser. The product works well with 3.0, was easy to set up, and is transparent to the MAC (it just shows up in the chooser as 'NeXTLaser'). I found two points on the negative side. The software is a bit pricy, about 600.00. The second point is my personal experiences with the company. The software required an encripted key which is based on the CPU ID of your next. You must call in after you receive the software to get this key. Here is were my problems occurred. My NeXT is at home. They seemed unwilling to just give me the key over the phone, wanting a FAX instead. After some discussion, I convinced them that I was not going back into work just to fax the information that I could tell them over the phone. They said that they would call right back. Three days later, I had to make two more calls to finally get the key. The key that you get is only good for 1-2months. Only after IPT receives the payment will you get a perm. key. Again, when the time came up to get the key, I had to make 3-4 phone calls over 2 days to get a response. The last point, the origonal software was only good for NS 2.1. Since I purchased the software within 2 weeks of their updated product for 3.0, I was told that my upgrade would be 'in the mail'. Stupidly, I upgraded to 3.0. When I called IPT 3 days later, I was told that I could not have the upgrade. After finally getting through to the person who had origionally told me that my upgrade was in the mail, he told me that the version I had would work just fine. When it didn't, and I raised HELL with them, they said that they had 'misunderstood' and would send me my update. I week later I finally had it. My point is this, their product works great, their tech support is good, but in my experience they are disorganized. The software key idea is ok, but they inconvienienced me and wasted my time by being slow producing the software keys. . ========================================================================= Jim Cassidy jcassidy@focus.uwaterloo.ca University of Waterloo optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca 200 University Ave. VE3RTS Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (519) 885-1211 ext. 6240
Re: Next to Mac networking
Author: Daniel Cwiertniewicz
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:02
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:02
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With NS3 doesn't the NeXT printer show up as an AT type device? --- Daniel Cwiertniewicz Phone: (313)-577-0787 Systems Analyst, Networking Support Group Fax: (313)-577-8787 Computing and Information Technology E-Mail: DCWIERT@WAYNEST1 or Wayne State University dan@foghorn.pass.wayne.edu
Re: Next to Mac networking
Author: Kenneth K.F. Lui
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:24
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:24
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In article <BzB1o6.CFH@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> "J.Cassidy - Optometry" <optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
>I have a NeXT station and a MAC Quadra and a PC at home. They
>are connected with thin coax Ethernet. I purchased a product
>from IPT, named Ushare
I have an '040 cube at home with a Mac IIx. Otherwise, same
configuration.
> You must call in after you
>receive the software to get this key.
I thought this was stupid as well--but then you have to do the
same thing with Mathematica. Re: Mathematica, I don't use it so
it just sits unregistered.
> They seemed unwilling to just give
>me the key over the phone, wanting a FAX instead.
Strange, they called me back and gave me the key within 6 hours
or so. No questions asked.
>The key that you get is only good for 1-2months. Only after IPT
>receives the payment will you get a perm. key.
Are you sure? Nothing was said about the key I received to be
temporary. How did you pay for the product? I used plastic.
>The last point, the origonal software was only good for NS 2.1.
>Since I purchased the software within 2 weeks of their updated
>product for 3.0, I was told that my upgrade would be 'in the mail'.
I bought the product around a week ago. The box came with v1.07
for NS2.1 and v1.09 for NS3.0. When did you purchase the
product? I'm running NS2.1 and plan on upgrading to V3 when 3.1
comes out.
The product works well. I'm able to print directly from my Mac
to my NeXT laser printer and I've offloaded a lot of files stored
on Macintosh diskettes to 1 optical disk. Using the optical is
waaay slow, though. What's a nice feature is that I'm allowed to
print from my NeXT to printers connected to my Mac--when 1200dpi
laser printers are a commodity, I'll be using that feature a
lot...unless NeXT comes out with one first to replace the 400dpi
laser. Too bad I can't see Macintosh volumes from my NeXT or
it'll be perfect, but I don't have that need at this point.
One additional item: the scripts that start ushare has a lot of
sleeps and it would take forever for the daemons to be launched.
I commented them out and now it loads a lot faster and everything
still works...
Ken
#include <disclaimer> My opinions do not reflect those of my employer
I'm not affiliated with IPT
--
Kenneth K.F. Lui, klui@corp.hp.com 3000 Hanover Street MS20BJ
Corporate Administrative Information Systems Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
Core Application Technologies 1(415)857-3230 Fax 1(415)852-8026
Re: Next to Mac networking
Author: Maurice Shihadi
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:27
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:27
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In responce to Jim's post: Gee, you mean IPT actually got back to you? I called them three times to confirm if a recent post on the net stating that Ushare would be licensed by NeXT was true or false. Still, no reply. So, does anyone know if there is any truth to Ushare being used in NeXTstep. If so, what version? maurices
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