tim@J.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Timothy Lange) (01/16/90)
I use the NAME= feature on the NPRINT and CAPTURE commands to differentiate stations with the same login. My lab has 33 machines, all use the guest login. In the system login script I have 33 if tests and use the physical ethernet address to assign a machine number (1-33) to a DOS environment variable (ST=xx). CAPTURE is done in the autoexec after network login, so I just add NAME=%ST% to the command. Since my network printers are Postscript only, I use a set of batch files to do printing via NPRINT (some print directly, some filter plain text into postscript), again I use the NAME=%ST% in the batch file. Now before everyone flames me about HOW DO YOU DO A BANNER on a Postscript printer, it does it because the printers are connected via Appletalk to Netware server X which is connected to Netware server Y. Y serves the lab of 33 machines. Whether Macs or PCs print to the Netware queue that is serviced by the Apple lasers, they all get a banner. Tim.