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Mac OS X & OS 8 on same network?
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Mar 17, '03 11:14:36AM

How do I share a printer with Mac OS 8.1 and Mac OS X on the same network? As you might guess, I've got an older Power Computing PowerTower Pro 225 with a PowerPC 604e running Mac OS 8.1, and I'd like to share a USB printer. Any ideas?

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Mac OS X & OS 8 on same network?
Authored by: normd on Apr 13, '03 11:08:56PM

Printer sharing on Macs is a mess. You can use Printger Sharing to share printers from OS9 toOS9 and OSX to OSX, but you cannot share between OSX and OS9. Very bizarre. The Hawking Print Server works great with OSX and Win 2000/NT/XP machines but does not work with OS9 and Win 98. If you try to print from OS9 to a USB printer on the Hawking, you get garbage, presumably Postscript since OS9 sees it as a Postscript printer.



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