roessli@sc2a.unige.ch (05/14/91)
Please help a poor soul:
- i'm having trouble installing Mac VAPs (v2.0) on our NetWare server.
the file system okay, but i can't seem to manage to print from a
Mac on our HP LaserJet III (PostScript). The AppleTalk queues are
okay, the server and the queues appear in the chooser, and in the
Netware DA; but each time a print job goes out (*EXCEPT* the first
few times ..!?!), the same error is generated:
The print manager returns either,
-4097 Bad connection reference number
-4098 Request already active (most frequent)
- now i've tried everything i could think of, without success. Could it
be that macs can only print on printers hooked onto LocalTalk ???
and not onto other PostScript printers (non AppleTalk) ??
- it did work a couple of times .. coincidence ?
- For thoses who might have an answer, here is our configuration:
NetWare : v2.15C (HP i486)
Mac VAPs : v2.0 (AppleTalk Phase 1)
Printers : HP LaserJet III (PostScript - no AppleTalk intf.))
MacOS : 6.0.7
Printing : 6.1 (LaserWriter, Print Monitor, Backgrounder)
AppleTalk: 2.0.2
Please, tell me the truth .. is there any hope ?
:david
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David C. Roessli Email: david@scsun.unige.ch
LGB, Dpt Anthropologie et Ecologie roessli@sc2a.unige.ch
Universite de Geneve ROESSLI@CGEUGE52.BITNET
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CH-1227 Geneva SWITZERLAND Fax : +41(22) 3000.351timm@Sed.Novell.COM (Tim Myers) (05/22/91)
In article <1991May14.112623.429@sc2a.unige.ch> roessli@sc2a.unige.ch writes: > I can't seem to manage to print from a Mac on our HP LaserJet III >(PostScript). >... > Could it be that Macs can only print on printers hooked onto LocalTalk? > and not onto other PostScript printers (non AppleTalk)? Precisely. NetWare for Macintosh only supports AppleTalk network printers. PostScript isn't enough; the Printer Access Protocol (PAP) must be supported by the printer. > Please, tell me the truth .. is there any hope ? Indeed. Insight Development Corporation has a product called Mosaic that lets Mac users print on HP LaserJets over a Novell network. Mosaic supports the following printers: HP LaserJet + HP LaserJet II HP LaserJet IID HP LaserJet IIP HP LaserJet III HP LaserJet IIID HP DeskJet HP DeskJet PLUS HP DeskJet 500 You buy Mosaic at Novell-authorized and HP-authorized dealers. The price is $395 for three users and $595 for ten users. Insight Development Corporation is located at 2200 Powell Street, Suite 500, Emeryville, CA 94068. Their telephone number is 800-825-4115 or 415-652-4115. ++Tim =========================================== Tim Myers Senior Software Consultant Novell, Inc. "Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."