win@audiofax.com (Win Strickland Jr) (02/06/90)
We have recently attached our HP Laserjet Series II printer to our Sun file server and are attempting to use it from a number of PCs networked together using PC NFS. Everything "seems" to be set up correctly and the PCs can send print jobs through the network to the printer, queued up by lpd on the Sun. However, a number of documents seem to be coming out with "garbage" at the beginning (what looks like part of a font download), and some spurious looking text segments with the wrong font. Others just come out with a variety of problems. This is not a strictly repeatable situation, sometimes a document works, and then it doesn't. Here's our printcap entry: lp2|HP:\ :lp=/dev/ttya:\ :br#4800:fc#0177777:fs#06023:xc#017777:xs#044040:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lp2:sh:sf We're using (I mean, trying to use) PageMaker, Write, and other PC oriented tools, and we're having them dump HPPCL to the printer when they output a file for printing. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. -- Win Strickland Internet: win@audiofax.com Director of Product Development UUCP: emory!audfax!win AudioFAX, Inc. Phone: 404 933 7600 Fax: 404 933 7606 2000 Powers Ferry Road / Suite 220 / Marietta GA 30067
ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (02/06/90)
In article <202@audfax.audiofax.com> win@audiofax.com (Win Strickland Jr) writes: >We have recently attached our HP Laserjet Series II printer to our >Sun file server and are attempting to use it from a number of PCs >networked together using PC NFS. I've always dreamed of a system whereby a bunch of PCs can use a Sun file server, be Unix terminals at will, use a remote file system, rlogin onto one of the few Sun workstations ... etc. What are the hardware/software vendors supporting such integration and what are the capabilities supported? Canya tell me whatever you know about prices too? Thanx, -ans. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (02/06/90)
win@audiofax.com (Win Strickland Jr) writes: >We have recently attached our HP Laserjet Series II printer to our >Sun file server and are attempting to use it from a number of PCs >networked together using PC NFS. >Everything "seems" to be set up correctly and the PCs can send print jobs >through the network to the printer, queued up by lpd on the Sun. However, >a number of documents seem to be coming out with "garbage" at the It is possible that the programs are sending raw data, and the Sun is doing some interpretation of the stuff. Try spooling one of the jobs, and then copying the file BY HAND directly to the io port. If it works then you will have to modify the printer interface to simply pass the raw data, and not to do anything with it. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
STOROBB@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (02/08/90)
The network you describe, with PCs and unix workstations happily interacting, is fairly easy to implement with either of two Sun products. TOPS is a neat little network; it supposedly can connect Macs, PCs, and NFS unix machines. I haven't had any real experience with it, though. We are setting up an Ethernet network here, connecting PCs into our Sun 4s (SPARCs). Sun sells a software package, PC/NFS, that runs in one of two modes. Either the PC sees the Sun peripherals (disks, printers) as DOS devices (D:, LPT2:) that can be used directly by any DOS program. Alternatively, the PC can be turned into a unix terminal rlogged into a workstation (text only). Sun also sells a few bells and whistles (called "lifeline") that ties you into the Sun mail system and allows you to use the Suns as a backup device. The cost of PC/NFS is about $400 (software only, heavily discountable); lifeline is an extra $125 (non-discountable). We have a PostScript printer (the new IBM one) attached to the network; it doesn't seem to suffer the same problems as the HP LaserJet seems to. Robert Stoddard
brian@advsys.UUCP (Brian Rippon) (02/14/90)
Could it be a problem with /etc/printcap ? Ours looks something like: ... :fc#071457:fs#06320:mx#0:sf:sh:\ :xc#0:xs#0040040:\ ... I've forgotten the significance, but it works for us (albeit not tried from PC-NFS). Sure as hell, if the printcap's wrong, you get garbage fonts etc. I know. We've done it several times. Brian.