j5u@psuvm.BITNET.UUCP (08/18/87)
Hello All: I was wondering if there was someone outthere that could help me with a small(to me it seems large) problem that I have. Here are the facts: Just recently I installed a LAN in the PC computer lab here at Penn State (actually the York Campus of Penn State). This consists a total of 21 AT&T 6300 (IBM PC compatibles). the 21 computers are configured as follows 3 with 640KB and 1 hard drive and 1 floppy 18 with 640KB and 2 floppy drives the above 21 computers have 3COM 3C501 boards with the 3 hard drives systems configured as servers. Also each server has an IBM ProPrinter attached to the parallel port. Now the problem: Recenlty there was purchased a HP LaserJet II printer which has a 1 MB memory board installed. So following the directions in the manual for the LaserJet, I made a wire and connected the LaserJet to the AT&T 6300. I then tried the test that they showed to try out the laser printer and it worked. Then I connected the laser printer to the one server and reconfigured Etherprint so that it recognized the laser as printer 2. I then started up the server and logged on as a user of the server and connected to the printer with EP Link /2 at this point I then tried to print something out and everthing seemed to go fine, but no output. I then checked the status of etherprint and saw that my output was still in the print Queue and didn't seem to go anywhere. The printer acted like it had nothing to print. So i thought the serial port was bad on the server so I rebooted the server but exited out to DOS instead of startin the server. And then tried to print out. And I could get it to print so i restarted the server and tried it again and Nothing again. I also found out that I can't use the /DIRECT option either when I link to the server I get a "server not responding" error. Any help would greatly be appricieated. Since 3COM charges $40 a question. Is there a problem with My hardware, or is the software not compatible with the AT&T's serial port. Is there something wrong with the LaserJet II? Is the a major difference between the LaserJet and the LaserJet II (since I configure etherprint for a Laserjet and not a LaserJet II). Or am I not doing something right with the hardware software configuration. Thanx In Advance Leon Geesey Lab Consultant/ Technician Penn State York Campus