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

[Frog Prince]

"Dave Greenwood" <GreenwoodDE at ornl.gov> wrote in message 
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| 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
| -- 
| Dave Greenwood             Email: GreenwoodDE at ornl.gov
| Oak Ridge National Lab     %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself


Thanks,  we're looking into those (and other) options but are walking 
carefully (including frequent back ups of data) in moving to any solution.