[comp.windows.ms] Printer Problems with Novell and Windows

ro@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jochen Roderburg) (06/12/91)

To: WIN3-L@UICVM, NOVELL@SUVM, comp.windows.ms, comp.sys.novell

A few weeks ago I reported a problem in these groups that we had with
printing from Windows in 386 enhanced mode under Netware 3.10.
We always had garbage added to the print files.
In the meantime we had hardware problems with the server machine leading
to a total disk crash, so we had to start all over again and it took me
sometime until I could research that problem further.

A global thank you to all people who gave me some hints, but the tips
that I got were mostly of the kind: change some parameter in one of the
configuration files (config.sys, shell.cfg, win.ini) or move some TSR
around, which might have helped in other situations, but unfortunately
didn't help in our case.

Well, finally I have found the cause of the problem with the old trick:
remove one TSR after another, even if they seem totally unrelated to the
question. The problem occurs, when I have a data path utility (DOS
APPEND or DPATH) loaded *after* the Novell Shell. When instead I load
them *before* Netware, the problems disappears and Windows prints as it
is expected to.

But like with most problems, this is still not the final answer for our
installation, because this created another problem with Novell and data
paths, which I will report in a separate posting in the Novell lists.

Jochen Roderburg
Regional Computing Center
University of Cologne
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