gt0852c@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel Rothman) (03/08/91)
i'm a new sys-admin for a novell net with about 23 boxes and 6-8 printers floating around. our old admin was pretty screwed, and there's not much record-keeping been done. i'm in sore need of some advice, and was hoping you good folk could help me. trust that i'll become an avid reader. several questions: 1) is there a list of standard/dumb questions typically asked, and their answers? if there is, i'd appreciate a copy. 2) looking for news/bbs style software for a Novell/token-ring. 3) looking for Mail on same. 4) saw mention of "remote printers". I've got a couple of really good printers around, that need to stay where they are. I would really like to be able to print to them from the network. any suggestions? 5) anyone ever heard of AGA/Discus optical drives? if so, i'm looking for either them, or someone who took over tech-support, or just someone who knows a lot about them. Thanks much, netland. be seeing you around. Daniel Rothman Daniel Rothman
kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) (03/10/91)
gt0852c@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel Rothman) writes: >1) is there a list of standard/dumb questions typically asked, and their > answers? if there is, i'd appreciate a copy. Don't know of any. >2) looking for news/bbs style software for a Novell/token-ring. ditto. Although someone out there has some weird NNTP version of news for PC in alpha/beta. Not very good but functional to a degree. >3) looking for Mail on same. Look for commercial products. cc:Mail is extremely popular although with the recent buyout from Lotus, it really depends on how you feel about future customer service from Lotus/cc:Mail. A recent plus from this and another news item is that cc:Mail will be integrated into Notes and that Powercore's Network Scheduler II will be seemlily integrated into cc:Mail (for workgroup scheduling software, due out in late summer). Notes looks like it has possibilities to create a base to write a Notes-based news software program that uses NNTP. If you're looking for something that's easy to administer, DaVinci email is a nice package. >4) saw mention of "remote printers". I've got a couple of really good > printers around, that need to stay where they are. I would really > like to be able to print to them from the network. any suggestions? We're currently using LanSpool on our NW286 v2.15c LAN and it works. I'd probably go with Fresh Tech's PrinterAssist now, and we're going to pick it up for the new NW386 LAN we're working on. It seems that the RPRINTER program (from Novell) is really slow if there is more than one printer attached (I currently have 3 printers attached to one remote print machine), with someone saying that it gets about a page a minute on 2 HP Laserjet II. If it's only one printer connected to one machine, RPRINTER would be the cheapest and best solution. >5) anyone ever heard of AGA/Discus optical drives? if so, i'm looking for > either them, or someone who took over tech-support, or just someone > who knows a lot about them. sorry, don't know. Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | I just come from the land of Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | the sun/ from a war that must Bitnet: kusumoto%chsun1@uchicago[.bitnet] | be won in the name of truth. UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | - New Order, "Love Vigilantes"