Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Atalk over TCP/IP only?
From: Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Fri Jun 26 1998 - 02:48:42 EDT
> Georg Schwarz wrote:
> > Is there any disadvantage of using AppleTalk over TCP/IP with a MacOS 8.1
> > client that uses TCP/IP anyway?
>
> If You are TCP/IP-only, You lose all the chooser advantages (point and
> click); also, I could not make lpr printing work with 8.1.
>
> When using both AppleTalk and TCP/IP, the chooser works and tries to
> connect over TCP/IP as a default (with fallback to AppleTalk); printing
> should still function as before: over AppleTalk.
no big deal. 8.1 nicely supports lpd, which IMHO is preferable anyway because
(via /etc/hosts.lpd) you can specify which host is allowed to print instead
of opening your printer to the who subnet (department in our case).
-- Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de Institut für Theoretische Physik Tel. +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130 Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/ Sekr. PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin IRC: kuroi
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