rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (01/10/91)
I'm the system administrator of a MicroVax II running pcnfs.
We are trying to make an HP plotter a network available device.
The plotter is hanging off of the MicroVax. The pcnfs manual describes
different net use commands.
The one we believe should work is:
net use printerdevice: \\nodename\queuename
For this command we receive a "filesystem access denied" error.
Any ideas how we could get this as a network device for our pc network?
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In article <3313.278b3353@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: >I'm the system administrator of a MicroVax II running pcnfs. > >We are trying to make an HP plotter a network available device. >The plotter is hanging off of the MicroVax. The pcnfs manual describes >different net use commands. > >The one we believe should work is: > net use printerdevice: \\nodename\queuename > >For this command we receive a "filesystem access denied" error. > >Any ideas how we could get this as a network device for our pc network? > >-- >Rob Pickering Rob, Your problem is that there is a file system not exported to the PCs. This file system is the one that is pointed to from the PCNFSD with the -s option. When you print using PCNFS it will redirect the printer output (the prt.exe program) to a network device mounted as a disk. The devices are T:\ for lpt1, U:\ for lpt2 and V:\ for lpt3. Then PCNFSD will take the file from the UNIX dir and send it to the print spool dir for the printer you want. There for what you should is check the /etc/exports file on the file server to ensure that the proper filesystem is exported (on a sun PCNFSD is started up either in the rc.local file or the inetd.conf for the rpc version. For the rc.local version there should be somthing like this in the rc.local file: if[ -f /etc/rpc.pcnfsd ]; then /etc/rpc.pcnfsd -s /usr/tmp ; echo 'rpc.pcnfsd' >/dev/console fi some time after YPBIND. Thomas J. Arseneault arsen@erg.sri.com