Appletalk and printer

[Macintoshguy1984]

How do i connect to appletalk, and still have a printer plugged in?

 

[unity]

Use the modem port for it.

 

[beachycove]

LocalTalk versus EtherTalk.

 

[trag]

IIRC, when  you make Appletalk active, either through the Chooser or using the Appletalk Control Panel, after you click to activate Appletalk, it will ask you which port you want to use.   Choose the serial port that the printer is not plugged into.   Or choose your ethernet interface if you have one and want AppleTalk over Ethernet.

 

[finkmac]

Er, no… AppleTalk can only use the printer port. You plug in your LocalTalk cable into the Printer port, and then set your printer (in the chooser) to use the modem port.

 

[just.in.time]

Finkmac, I know that is definitely true for older OS versions. However, at a certain point I vaguely remember AppleTalk giving you an option of which port you wanted it to run on... maybe 7.6.1 or 8.1? Can't remember specifically when.

 

[Cory5412]

It would depend on the printer. If your printer is a grayshare/quickdraw printer like a non-networked imagewriter/II or a stylewriter, then you just pick which serial port you want to use for each.

If your printer is an appletalk/localtalk printer, then you need to get enough localtalk hardware to connect both computers and the printer together.

On at least 7.6.1 (certainly with appleshare 3.8.3 and newer) appletalk can use either serial port. I don't have a 7.1 installation exactly handy to check what the case is there. I don't know at all on system 6.

 

[Macintoshguy1984]

Ok, i got it working, But i was wondering if there's a way to share an imagewriter with appletalk.

 

[Gil]

Ok, i got it working, But i was wondering if there's a way to share an imagewriter with appletalk.

Yes, with the LocalTalk Option card.

 

[just.in.time]

I think you can also share it directly from the Mac it is plugged into. The only requirements I believe are that the host Mac is powered on, and it has printer sharing. It made its debut sometime during the run of System 7. Definitely present by 7.6.1. The host Mac then shares the printer over AppleTalk connection with other Macs.

 

[Macintoshguy1984]

Is there printer sharing in 6.1.8 with appletalk workstation?? 

 

[just.in.time]

That's a good question... I'm honestly not sure. I can probably post some photos later of how it would be enabled in System 7 so you could try the same in 6.0.8 (I'm assuming that's what you meant by 6.1.8 ) with the AppleTalk workstation install.