[comp.sys.apollo] Want help printing from PC via DPCIRING

jimr@metro.oz (pri=5 |Jim Richardson) (02/16/89)

We are running DPCIRING V4.00 to connect a PC to a DN3000 running SR10.0.

The "net start" and "net login" commands seem to work correctly (now that we
have discovered that your password on the Apollo must be short and not contain
lower case letters - apparently DPCIRING truncates it and maps it to upper
case before transmitting it from the PC to the Apollo).  We can also connect
pseudo-disk-drives on the PC to directory trees on the Apollo.

However, when we try a command like

	net connect lpt2: p

we get the error message

	Invalid username or password

The "net offers" command prints out the contents of pci_cmd.dat all right, so
the problem does not seem to be in that area.

Can anyone help, or offer any other comments on DPCIRING?  So far we have
found it very capricious.

Please reply to one of the addresses below, rather than to the machine metro
from which I'm posting this news item.  If responses warrant, I'll summarize
for the net.

Thanks in advance,
Jim Richardson
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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