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CONFIGURING THE M208 FOR APPLETALK: Overview 75
CONFIGURING THE M208 FOR APPLETALK
Overview
This chapter will cover the few steps required to get your print jobs printing to an
M208 in an AppleTalk over EtherTalk environment.
The M208 does not support LocalTalk.
M208 Configuration
An AppleTalk setup does not require any Print Server configuration; the network
parameters are automatically configured for you once the M208 is booted on the net-
work. If you wish to modify some of the M208’s default settings, you can use the
built-in npsh command set. Please see USING THE M208’S COMMAND SET on
page 93 for more on the available commands.
There is no host software provided for the Macintosh. To do any configuration on the
unit, you must rely on:
• npsh commands available through a telnet session. These commands could be
issued from a Macintosh workstation if you a running program like NCSA Telnet
and MacTCP is installed on your system.
• a Novell workstation running the host software npsh.exe.
• a Windows workstation running the NPWin software utility,
• a terminal, PC, or laptop connected to one of the serial ports on the M208.
Host Configuration
Once you have physically attached the M208 to the network, the following steps will
get your Apple host printing to the M208:
1 Select Chooser from the Apple Menu.
2 Select the appropriate print driver icon (e.g. Laserwriter icon).
A list of available printers will appear. By default, the format of each name is
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