[Scgeeks] Re: getting a mac to print on a pc attached printer ...

[Dave Greenwood]

Frog Prince wrote:
> "Ellen" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
> news:fke2b5$q89$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> |I have added a macbook to my lan. It plays nicely with the windows
> | machines and they can see each others' drives -- and remarkably it
> | didn't take excessive effort to get that going. Well OK one win machine
> | was recalcitrant but I beat it into submission.
> |
> | So on to the next challenge:
> |
> | I have a canon printer usb attached to one pc. The other pc can remote
> | print to that printer. Would be nice if the mac could do the same. I
> | googled and found some slightly mind boggling directions with
> | addendums/corrections/apparent contradictions. Anyone done this? Anyone
> | want to take me by the hand and explain how to do it -- remembering of
> | course that my level of mac expertise is less than 24 hours :-)
> |
> | And one random other question -- is there a way to have more than one
> | terminal window open at once on tiger? (and no this has nothing to do
> | with printing)
> |
> | TIA (and yes, there will be more questions)
> |
> |
> | Ellen
> 
> An aside.  We have a new Mac BookPro, replacing a G4, and have found that 
> many of the old applications that ran on the G4 (mostly those requiring 
> classic) WON'T fly on the Mac Book.  Also there seems to be some interesting 
> problems using Leopard so we've gone back to Tiger until the issues can be 
> resolved. 
> 
> 

There are a couple of projects that claim to put a virtual PPC system on an
Intel Mac.  You might be able to run those old apps in the virtual system.
I don't have any experience with either.

http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/
http://basilisk.cebix.net/

Dave
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