ANNIEH@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Anne F Holderried) (02/16/89)
My apologies if I am posting to an inappropriate newsgroup, but this is my first posting and I'm not sure where to post the following question. I have installed a 22 node PC-NFS thin ethernet network; it is made up solely of IBM XTs and uses a SUN 3/50 as a print server. All features of the network work fine with the exception of printing. I am trying to print to an HP Laserjet II and haven't been successful in the least. Ocassionally, I may be able to get a very small ascii file to print via NET PRINT but there is no consistency. The worst nightmares are in trying to print from within WordPerfect 4.2 - document formats are a disaster, if they print at all! I have looked in every direction (HP, WP, NFS) and tried every PC-NFS configuration I can think of. I have spoken to tech. support at SUN but they have been less than helpful. Has anyone experience with PC-NFS that could possibly shed light on this mess? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...Anne
gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) (02/17/89)
/ comp.unix.questions / ANNIEH@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Anne F Holderried) / Feb 15, 1989 / > I am trying to print [through PC-NFS] to an HP Laserjet II and haven't been > successful in the least. Ocassionally, I may be able to get a very small > ascii file to print via NET PRINT but there is no consistency. The worst > nightmares are in trying to print from within WordPerfect 4.2 - document > formats are a disaster, if they print at all! This is the printcap we use for the same setup. It works with WordPerfect (5.0, at least). hp-lj2-config|Any HP LaserJet II:\ :sh:sf:\ :fc#0000374:\ :fs#0000003:\ :xc#0:\ :xs#0040040:\ :mx#0: laser3-config|HP LaserJet II:\ :lp=/dev/ttyA5:\ :br#9600:\ :lf=/usr/spool/lp/laser3/error_log:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lp/laser3/spool:\ :tc=hp-lj2-config: laser3-raw|Raw HP LaserJet II configuration suitable for PC-NFS:\ :tc=laser3-config: Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore
HBN%UNB.CA@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (02/20/89)
I have also had problems with PC-NFS - I think other people have too. The Network File System part works well but the printer driver doesn't. It sometimes prints the file on the PC screen instead of the network printer. Apparently Sun knows of this problem. Hubert B. Newman University of New Brunswick Electrical Engineering Dept. Fredericton N.B. Canada Bitnet: HBN@UNB.CA Disclaimer: The above opinions are mine.
draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Dave Draper) (02/21/89)
We are running a similar setup here. About 15 XT clones tied into an Encore UMAX running BSD 4.2 We are using version 3.0 of PC-NFS. We too have run into printing problems. Multimate Advantage II will not print correctly. Wordstar 2000 Plus will not even run on an NFS drive. (drive D: or above) We have been in touch with different people (I do not think it would be fair to mention names since we are working on getting the problem resolved) and soo far have had no luck. About the best thing I can say to do is to have the file sent to a ascii text file instead of a printer and then use net print to print that out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Draper Boston University Corporate Education Center UUCP: decvax!elrond!bu-tyng!draper 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro MA 01879 Internet: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (508) 649-9731 x14
robert@PVAB.SE (Robert Claeson) (02/22/89)
In article <498@bu-tyng.bu.edu>, draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Dave Draper) writes: > We are running a similar setup here. About 15 XT clones tied into > an Encore UMAX running BSD 4.2 We are using version 3.0 of PC-NFS. > We too have run into printing problems. Multimate Advantage II will > not print correctly. Wordstar 2000 Plus will not even run on an NFS > drive. (drive D: or above) > We have been in touch with different people (I do not think it would > be fair to mention names since we are working on getting the problem > resolved) and soo far have had no luck. About the best thing I can > say to do is to have the file sent to a ascii text file instead of > a printer and then use net print to print that out. I've also run into these problems. When trying to print something from a normal word processor on a PC to an HP LJII connected to an UNIX server, I often get some garbage characters before the actual data. And the beginning of the document is often garbled as well. I think that PC-NFS uses the printing routines from Locus' PC-Interface software. What does it do differently from, say, Novell Netware or 3Com's 3+Net, since those networks always seems to handle network printing "right"? -- Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden Tel: +46 758 202 50 EUnet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE Fax: +46 758 197 20 Internet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE