The January 2003 issue of German MacUp magazine has a 6.x version of Miramar's PCMacLan on the CD (license key to be obtained from the mag's website). It teaches Apple-ese to Windows PCs. I tried it on Win98, and it worked nicely, exposing shares on my FAT32-HD to the Mac (which has a totally different file system concept called HFS, and where meta-info about files is stored separately in "resource forks" invisible to the Mac user).
[Jake, do you want a copy? I could send you one, just let me know.]
The commercial version 8.x seems to bring it's own configurator for Ghostscript, which enables you to expose your PC's local printers to the network as *postscript* printers, something very much appreciated by Mac und Unix users.
You can also create PDFs with Ghostview (for free).
I've installed Ghostscript independently, and also gsview, and now my printer accepts postscript printjobs. But not yet through the network.
For this I need to get something called RedMon configgered right (how? ;=} ), that's a printer-port redirection tool.
I've twiddled with it, and it drove me nuts: It does what it's supposed to do, but not automatically: It accepts the Mac's printjob, but leaves it as a file somewhere (!) on the PC. I can then manually load it into gsview and send it via Ghostscript to a non-postscript printer. I'd really appreciate some automation here...
Ghostview, gsview and RedMon are freeware or shareware.
All software described get installed on the PC, so the PC might be e.g. a file- and printserver in a Mac-dominated network. Such setups are quite often found in creative departments/advertising agencies, where they use either a Windows-Server with PCMacLan or a Linux-Server for file and print services (and centralised backup).
>the idea that without some guy called
>Dave I couldn't "talk" to Windows
The January 2003 issue of German MacUp magazine has a 6.x version of Miramar's PCMacLan on the CD (license key to be obtained from the mag's website). It teaches Apple-ese to Windows PCs. I tried it on Win98, and it worked nicely, exposing shares on my FAT32-HD to the Mac (which has a totally different file system concept called HFS, and where meta-info about files is stored separately in "resource forks" invisible to the Mac user).
[Jake, do you want a copy? I could send you one, just let me know.]
The commercial version 8.x seems to bring it's own configurator for Ghostscript, which enables you to expose your PC's local printers to the network as *postscript* printers, something very much appreciated by Mac und Unix users.
You can also create PDFs with Ghostview (for free).
I've installed Ghostscript independently, and also gsview, and now my printer accepts postscript printjobs. But not yet through the network.
For this I need to get something called RedMon configgered right (how? ;=} ), that's a printer-port redirection tool.
I've twiddled with it, and it drove me nuts: It does what it's supposed to do, but not automatically: It accepts the Mac's printjob, but leaves it as a file somewhere (!) on the PC. I can then manually load it into gsview and send it via Ghostscript to a non-postscript printer. I'd really appreciate some automation here...
Ghostview, gsview and RedMon are freeware or shareware.
All software described get installed on the PC, so the PC might be e.g. a file- and printserver in a Mac-dominated network. Such setups are quite often found in creative departments/advertising agencies, where they use either a Windows-Server with PCMacLan or a Linux-Server for file and print services (and centralised backup).