pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/08/89)
I got the following query on Compuserve. Can anyone help? Thanks.
We have 7 AT&T 7300's in our organization. We use the internal modems and
UUCP based E mail package which is written using the User Agent for com-
munications. (The poor man's LAN - one half a step up from SneakerNet.) We
have one printer which is shared by all 7 7300's. Six of the remote 7300's
send their print jobs to the one "print server" 7300 via the remote print-
ing facility built into the User Agent. We are running the latest version
3.51 of operating system software.
We have extensive problems with the server 7300 locking up requiring a hard
reset to clear when receiving remote printing jobs. The problem is very er-
ratic. Days will go by without a problem. The server seems to be unable to
"open a window" in the background to accept the incoming UUCP? Unable to
UUX? Occasionally the problem will also lock up a sending 7300 but this is
much less frequent.
With 6 remote 7300`s sending print jobs we do have a significant number of
collisions (server modem busy). I wrote a simple script to remove the sys-
tem lock (STST.systemname) and run the UUCP daemon to "try again" which is
useful to the sending 7300's.
Is there any way of resolving these problems short of installing network
cards in all machines an putting up Starlan? Why does the server crash?
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Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (10/09/89)
In article <1989Oct7.235927.23193@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes: [... 7300's uucp problems] > Is there any way of resolving these problems short of installing network > cards in all machines an putting up Starlan? Why does the server crash? There have been a couple of fixdisk releases to help deal with this problem but it may not be completely solved yet. Getting HoneyDanber UUCP is supposed to fix it, but unfortunately HDB is only available inside of AT&T. I think the problem involved the clist buffers gradually going away until there are none left. It might help to reboot the machines fairly often, but I've never succeeded in getting the machine to reboot cleanly from software. I would hesitate to add Starlan to a 7300 unless there is no chance of adding any new machines to the net. The version of Starlan software that is available for the 7300 is not compatible with the current versions for 3B2, 386, or PC's. It does work reliably for uucp, though (no RFS since you don't have SysVr3). Les Mikesell