dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong) (09/01/89)
I'm in the process of putting up a lab which consists of two NeXT
machines. One has a hard drive, the other doesn't. The diskless
machine is connected to our NeXT printer, and is intended to be a
print server for the diskfull machine. Both machines are running 0.9,
yellow pages, named, and netinfo.
Printing worked fine, until I actually converted the diskless machine
to boot from the server, rather then it's OD. The primary symptom is
as follows: when printing from the print-client (i.e. the disk server)
the output never appears. A lpq from the print-client produces the
following listing ...
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apollo [21]# lpq
no entries
apollo: Waiting for queue to be enabled on hera
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st root 44 .login 187 bytes
apollo [22]#
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Let me hasten to add that I've tried to insure that the contents of
the root directory tree provided by the disk server are the same as
that on the OD. Perhaps I've missed something, but I've compared every
file that I can think of which might be related to remote printing.
As near as I can tell, the proper queue is enabled on the
print-server. In addition, if one prints something from the
print-server it prints fine and even shows up in the lpq output on the
print-client.
I'm almost convinced that this is a bug, that print-serving is broken
when one boots diskless but works OK when one boots from the OD.
Any revelations or suggestions will be gratefully accepted.
Thanks,
Del Armstrong
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