esmith@peru.psych.purdue.edu (Eliot R. Smith) (12/18/89)
On a PC running PC-NFS version 3.0.1a (patch version), served by a Sun 3/60 with laser printer connected, the C>net use lpt2: \\peru\lp command, run when the system is turned on, fails. (peru is the sun host). The symptom is that the zero-length spool file does not get created in the printer spool directory (u: from the PC, /var/spool/pcnfs/argentina on the host; argentina is the PC). Therefore printing does not work and often locks up the PC. Three peculiar observations. (1) Simply retrying the net use command, by C>net use lpt2: /d C>net use lpt2: \\peru\lp C>dir u: will work--on the second retry if not the first. (I have these three lines in a DOS batch file for convenience.) (2) Looking at debug output from the net use command, with C>net -d use lpt2: \\peru\lp, shows identical output from failing and successful commands. In both cases the last line of output is net use returned. I can send a copy of the output to anyone who thinks it might be useful to look at it. (3) Another PC, identically configured as far as I can tell, never fails. I have etherfind output from the two PC's transactions with the server, and can send it to anyone who would like to see it. Anyone have any ideas? The patched version of PC-NFS is supposed to have fixed the duplicate-xid bug that led to this kind of failure earlier. -- Eliot R. Smith Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University Phone: (317) 494-7709 W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA Domain: esmith@psych.purdue.edu BITNET: esmith@PURCCVM