[comp.protocols.nfs] WINDOWS 3.0 with PC-NFS 3.0.1

mathieu@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Tom Mathieu) (10/06/90)

Our department has been running PC-NFS for some time now.  We're hooked togetherby an ethernet LAN.  Now, we are getting Windows in and I'm having trouble
getting it to work.  I can't seem to print to our network printers.  Windows
comes back and says "having trouble writing LPT1:" (or something like that).
Having never had this problem before, I suspect something is wrong between
Windows and NFS.

I know NFS isn't "supported" by windows 3.0.  However, I still don't know
why print manager can't write to lpt1 and lpt1 to our server spool queue,
like we have been doing.  Has anyone out there installed windows on
a PC and had similar experience?  Did you get it fixed?

Please keep your answers simple, as I'm not a technician.

Regards.  Tom Mathieu@ncrcis.stpaul.ncr.com

kxb@math.ksu.edu (Karl Buck) (10/07/90)

mathieu@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Tom Mathieu) writes:

>comes back and says "having trouble writing LPT1:" (or something like that).

Try setting up Windows to print to lpt.os2 (it's way at the bottom of
the list when configuring the priter port from the control panel).
Good luck.
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pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) (10/07/90)

With respect to printing to network printers from Windows:

Use "lpt1.os2" and "lpt2.os2".  These work, whereas going straight to
"lpt1" and "lpt2" don't.

			     Eric Pilger
			     Systems Programmer
			     NASA Infrared Telescope Facility