[WinMac] AppleTalk or NetWare for HPLJ5Si?

Geoffrey L. Herrera(gherrera[at]concentric.net)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:39:36 -0500

I am the lone (and brand new) Mac person in an all Wintel academic
department. The building/department is ethernet wired for Internet
access but computer services runs a NetWare server for file servers
and printing.

I have got onto the Internet via the ethernet network, but cannot
print on the department's printer. Computer services says the printer
-- a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 5Si -- would have to be configured for
AppleTalk, which it isn't currently, and the configuration is
unstable. I wouldn't know. But their response strikes me as odd: two
floors up from me (in another department) is an HP 4000N that is
AppleTalked. I can select this (and plenty of other printers around
the university) from my Chooser, and could print if the other
Department would let me (why would they?).

So my question is twofold, what has to be done to get me to where I
can print on this printer, and how do I convince CS to do what has to
be done?

I'm guessing that there are two options -- AppleTalking the printer
or NetWaring my Macintosh (it's a bronze PB G3 running OS 8.6) -- but
I don't know for sure. Is configuring the HP for AppleTalk terribly
complicated, and/or terribly unstable?

Thanks for any and all help.

Geoff

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