[G4] Inferior Computers [What!!!]---10.3 Printer sharing to os 9,

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

This is the G4 List, pretty much all the computers here could be  
considered "inferior" or not as powerful when compared to a G5. As long  
as the computer works for you thats all that matters. My G4 500 MHz is  
somewhat long in the tooth when compared to new stuff, but it works  
fine for me.  And as for big (100Gig +Drives)  hard drives, their cheap  
thats why many have bought them the computers don't all necessarily  
come with them by any means. Ram used to be cheap, but not anymore so  
that can be expensive, but not totally out of reach. You can make your  
computer less inferior by doing some minor upgrades. The only machines  
that are truly inferior are those old Performa's...... Specifically the  
6200 series, because they are so poorly designed that upgrades other  
than hard drives or ram are impossible.... So your Beige G3 is a good  
computer, you could put a G4 in it if you wanted to....

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Now as for the printing problem between os 9.2 and 10.3. Well it's not  
going to work directly according to apple.

Your answer is not far away.........

Do this go to the finder in mac os 10.3 , then go to Help, then Select  
Mac Help.

Type "printer sharing" and search.  You should find this: "Sharing your  
USB printer with Mac OS 9 computers"

Boom, its that Simple problem solved..... Right, I doubt it but  
at-least you know why it does not work and have a cheap solution that  
might work ....  :-)

Dan Brieck Jr.
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Sharing your USB printer with Mac OS 9 computers

If you share a USB printer connected to your computer by using Printer  
Sharing in Sharing preferences, computers using Mac OS 9 cannot connect  
to the printer. However, you can use the USB Printer Sharing control  
panel in Mac OS 9 to share the printer with Mac OS 9 computers.
	1.  	 Open the Mac OS 9 System Folder used by the Classic environment.
	2.  	 Open the Control Panels folder and double-click USB Printer  
Sharing. The Classic environment starts (if it isn't already started).
	3.  	 If necessary, click Start/Stop in the control panel, then click  
the Start button.
	4.  	 Click My Printers and select the Share checkbox next to the name  
of your USB printer.

  Note: If you turn off printer sharing in Mac OS X, you can still use  
the USB Printer Sharing control panel in the Classic environment to  
share printers.

  For help using Mac OS 9 USB Printer Sharing, look in the Mac OS 9  
version of Mac Help. With a Mac OS 9 application open, choose Chooser  
from the Mac OS 9 Apple menu, then choose Mac Help from the Help menu.

On May 22, 2004, at 7:44 AM, zhmmy harper wrote:

>
> I can't really speak for others, but if I can't test a solution I  
> don't want to send you on a wild goose chase by speculating. A year  
> and a half ago I would have been able to test it for you (I had a  
> beige and B/W G3), but I don't have those machines any more. Did  
> anyone here SAY your machines are inferior?
> I'm sure all us snobs will be happy to help now, though.
> Mel
>
> I guess I'm just over-sensitive to my lack of buying power.  I'm an  
> old Nam Vet on Social Security.  I do feel inferior when almost  
> everyone on this site seems to have the latest and greatest super  
> gigahertz megameg RAM machine with multiple processors and a thousand  
> gig high rev drive.
>
> I suppose my real questions are (regardless of machine generation):   
> If you use the correct ip numbers for a machine running 10.3.3 and one  
> running 9.2.1 (non-carbon), can't you print on a network?  I didn't  
> have a problem printing 9.2.1 to 9.2.1 so is it a Panther problem?