dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) (06/02/89)
Here at the UofM we have several IBM XT's running PC-NFS with the server
being a Sun3/280 running SunOS 4.0.1. Under both PC-NFS 2.0 and 3.0, text
destined for the printer instead shows up on the monitor of the XT. The
printing was attempted using standard passthrough mode with printing being
held until the "hot-key" is pressed. The text was sent to the printer
with the command:
type somefile > lpt1:
a "net use lpt1: \\<server>\<printerq>" was done.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? (and if so, are there any
solutions?)
-Dan Muntz
dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.eduUCC@ecs.umass.edu (04/12/90)
We recently upgraded our three standalone SUN 3/140's from version 3.5os to 4.0.3os. These SUNS are also running PC-NFS, and are used as file servers, and print servers for the various type PCs. We are experiencing intermittent problems mounting printers thru PC-NFS. What happens is; the spool directory for the PC always gets created, but the initial zero-byte spooling files in it do not always get created. When the files are created, printing works fine. When the files are absent, the output returns to the screen of the PC. This problem seems to get progressively worse the longer the system has been up. Occasionally, an error message appears, when a net use is done stating "SYSTEM CANNOT READ PRINTER NAME FROM REDIRECTOR". Our time is running out on the problem, we may have to go back to 3.5. Please telephone me if you want. Thanks Pat Kochin, Staff Programmer University of Massachusetts - Amherst University Computing Services 413-545-2690