CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) (09/08/90)
Well, this is the first of what I think will be many postings begging for help :-( Our first RS system arrived (a 530, with two 540 promised in October) [Parenthetical comment: Yes, in Oz RS does mean the same as BS - up until recently, I'd object to calling the IBM's this, but recently I'm starting to call them much worse things than that...]. After the challenge of configuring a system without access to paper documentation, and having now succeeded in operating infoexplorer to my Mac via X, I wanted to set up a remote printer. I set up the service on our main VAXcluster using CMU TCP/IP in about 5 minutes. I set up the configuration on our MIPS in about 5 minutes and it all worked. Feeling rather smug (I'm a VMS person learning Unix the hard way) I wondered over to the IBM and fired up SMIT (I usually refer to Smit as Smut - I get into trouble for this too!) After a couple of hours trying to set things up, I rang our IBM CS. They only confused me more... I then got a copy of "AIXv3 for 4.3BSD System Administrators" and followed the magic incantation on page 21, but to no avail. Has anyone out there set up a remote printer? What did I do wrong? Does it work? Any help would be appreciated. Huw Davies Senior Systems Programmer La Trobe University Melbourne Australia I can be contacted on the Internet at the address cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au or try the address in the header