zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A. Zook x4206) (03/29/91)
We have just gone from 14 to 19 printers in our appletalk zone. We noticed that chooser will only display 14 printers at a time. We have 5 zone numbers all with the same zone name, which worked just great until we added the last 5 printers. For various reasons we do not want to split up into more zone names. It looks like what chooser is doing is it displays the first 14 names it gets and then each time a zone sends an update (once every 10 seconds) the printers from that zone are added to the bottom of the list and other printer are removed to make the total 14. I have not been able to determine how it decides which printers to remove. Does anybody know how to "hack" the chooser so it can hold more that 14 names at a time? We also have a copy of "The Namer" (a printer naming program) that can only display 16 printers at a time. A "hack" for this would also be nice. We are running version 6.0.5 of the system. And version 2.0 of "The Namer". -- Craig Zook - zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov Systems Engineeering and Administration McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Corp. - Engineering Services Division (713) 283-4206
tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans) (04/03/91)
In article <1991Mar28.190651@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>, zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A. Zook x4206) writes: > We have just gone from 14 to 19 printers in our appletalk zone. We noticed > that chooser will only display 14 printers at a time. I seem to remember that it is a CHARACTER limit, as the Chooser only allocates a limited number of bytes (256 or 512 or something) for all the responses. Thus if you are able to shorten your printer names you might be able to fit them all in. Start on the longer ones first. ======================== Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au ** ADD ".au" MANUALLY (don't trust "reply") ** Webster Computer Corp P/L, 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Melbourne 3179 Victoria, Australia 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 A.C.N. 004 818 455
lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) (04/10/91)
In article <1991Mar28.190651@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>, zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A. Zook x4206) writes: > We have just gone from 14 to 19 printers in our appletalk zone. We noticed > that chooser will only display 14 printers at a time. 19 printers in the same zone? Isn't this a sign that it's time to make a new zone?? Your network traffic going to all of those printers must be incredible! I would think that the easiest way to deal with this would be to break that zone up into (at LEAST) two separate zones... --Steve -- ----- Steve Lemke, KC6QDT - Software Engineering, Radius Inc., San Jose ----- ----- Reply to: lemke@radius.com -- U.C. Santa Barbara ECE Class of '89 ----- ----- "I'm not a UNIX wizard, but I play the Postmaster at radius.com." -----
hayes@Apple.COM (Jim Hayes) (04/10/91)
lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes in article <1429@radius.com>: > >19 printers in the same zone? Isn't this a sign that it's time to make a new >zone?? Your network traffic going to all of those printers must be incredible! >I would think that the easiest way to deal with this would be to break that >zone up into (at LEAST) two separate zones... Not necessarily. You can split things into multiple networks with the same zone name and avoid the traffic bottlenecks. It really depends on your topology. But that's neither here nor there... The Chooser has been changed extensively for System 7 and now dynamically allocates space for names (as well as sorting them.) This is a win for zones with many printers and AppleShare servers. -- Jim Hayes, Network Manager (I manage the hardware, not the network group) Engineering Network Services, Apple Computer Inc. Inet: hayes@apple.com UUCP: {amdcad|decwrl|ames}!apple!hayes