Mac Printing to a Novell 4 Server

[dakota81]

I've got a PowerPC 8100/80 Macintosh running MacOS 7.6. I successfully got the Mac to connect and read the Novell server by turning on Novell's Apple Talk software that's included with Netware. Hooked up to the Mac I'm using the built in AAUPI (is that the correct acronym?) with an adapter converting the plug to twisted pair cable. I can read the files from the server, so that is accomplished. I'm just using the built-in Apple Talk software that is already on the Mac.

Now I'm stuck trying to connect to a printer. I have an Apple LaserWriter Pro 600 with a print server connected to the parallel port of the printer and a twisted pair cable connecting the print server to the ethernet hub. The Novell server has a queue for the printer and I can access the printer fine from our PC's. But I am at a loss getting the Macintosh to use the printer, I cannot even figure out how to get the Mac to even see that the printer exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[newenglandgreen]

The NetWare queue has 'captured' the LaserWriter, preventing it from being available to direct users.

Prove it: by disconnecting the parallel cable from the printer and restarting it. The printer will now appear in the Chooser.

Solve it v1: enable print services for Macintosh, or disable printer capture.

Solve it v2: Ignore all of the Apple support on the server and make the Mac a well behaved Netware client with Prosoft

http://www.prosofteng.com/netware.asp