On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Joshua Coombs wrote:

> http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/appletalk/cap.html
>
> The faq specifically mentions printing to serially connected apple talk
> printers, so it may be possible using this package ontop of NetBSD to share
> your printer via lpd/cups/samba/etc over ethernet.

Use netatalk. It's in pkgsrc.

> Joshua Coombs
>
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 10:47 am, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> > From what I've been able to learn online, LocalTalk printing is
> > completely unsupported, and nobody is actively working on building
> > support for it.  Is this correct?

Connecting LocalTalk devices to NetBSD machines is unsupported.

> > I'd been hoping to share my LW 4/600 on the network without wasting my
> > Mac by leaving it running MacOS.  But I guess I'll look for a different
> > option.  If anyone has experience with LT/EN bridges (particularly if
> > there are some I should avoid), please let me know.

As Joshua notes, you could hook the LW up directly & have the mac export
it. THough serial might be a bit slow. As for LT/EN, I think the old
Asante bridges worked well.

Take care,

Bill