How do I use IP to connect to a printer or AppleShare server under Classic MacOS (7.6.1 – 9.2.2)?
Check out the step-by-step procedures for connecting to an LPR printer, and for connecting to a server via TCP/IP. • I have an old printer, and I’m not sure it supports IP. Check your user manual or contact the printer manufacturer to verify whether or not your printer is capable of IP networking. If it is not, you may consider directly attaching it to an existing IP server and allow that machine to share the printer. A simpler alternative may be just to replace the aging printer with one that is IP capable. • Can our department continue to use IPX and/or AppleTalk locally? If your departmental server(s) and client machines are all on a single subnet, then AppleTalk/IPX routing is not necessary for the services on your machines. AppleTalk/IPX functionality will continue to work within any given subnet even after CNS disables the forwarding of these protocols across the campus network. However, even in this case, configuring your clients and server to use IP may increase your local perf
