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- From: axw@sunquest.com (Allen X. Wittenauer)
- Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.amiga,demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Home Network
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 00:35:15 GMT
- Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.
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- Rhiannon Macfie (rhiannon@llais.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : > You can stick ethernet cards in the PCs, and get one for the A4000 and
- : > run TCP/IP to make use of FTP and so on. Sharing printers is pretty
- : > much out though. You could also network the PCs (ethernet again) and
- : > use a serial link from the A500. Not much fun though.
- :
- : So you can`t share printers with Ethernet? Why not? Because that`s one
- : of my main reasons for wanting to network things, and if you can`t then
- : there`s no point in me bothering..
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- Well, it depends. Depending upon what software is used where, you might
- be able to use an LPR queue-type setup, where one machine serves the rest
- of them. If one of the machines runs UNIX, then you are in luck. I
- don't think AmiTCP supports an lpd-type server, and some PC TCP stacks do,
- others do not.
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