4.1 nprinter printer unavailable
Rani Machoi
We are running a 4.1 server, 64 Mb RAM, 2.5 gig HD, 25 user license, on a
DOS/Windows environment. We load pserver at the server, attach the
HPlaserjet III to a workstation, log in the workstation (although I
understand that isn't necessary), load nprinter and then run pconsole
on that workstation so that users can track their jobs and change forms
while standing next to the printer. This workstaion is an old PS/2
55, with 8 Mb RAM. The problem is that about half the time, pconsole sees
that printer as unavailable. Pconsole run on any other workstation, as
well as printer server monitor at the server console, sees it as
available and running just fine. The file server has 3 volumes, and at
first the problem seemed to be related to whether the third volume or
pserver got loaded first during server start-up, but now I'm not sure.
The next step, of course is to replace the ps/2 with something better,
but i'd rather not tie up a perfectly good machine as a print server
if we can get this one to work. Has anyone seen this before or have any
ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Rani Machoi
Norlin Libraries
University of Colorado-Boulder
mac...@spot.colorado.edu
Philip Chee
>We are running a 4.1 server, 64 Mb RAM, 2.5 gig HD, 25 user license, on a
>DOS/Windows environment. We load pserver at the server, attach the
>HPlaserjet III to a workstation, log in the workstation (although I
>understand that isn't necessary), load nprinter and then run pconsole
>on that workstation so that users can track their jobs and change forms
>while standing next to the printer. This workstaion is an old PS/2
>55, with 8 Mb RAM. The problem is that about half the time, pconsole sees
>that printer as unavailable. Pconsole run on any other workstation, as
>well as printer server monitor at the server console, sees it as
>available and running just fine.
...snip...
>pserver got loaded first during server start-up, but now I'm not sure.
>The next step, of course is to replace the ps/2 with something better,
...snip...
Instead of pconsole, try Qview Pro a third party shareware product which
allows you to do most of what you needed pconsole for, as well as adding a
lot of value added queue mamagement features. The latest Windows version
is NDS compliant.
Philip
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Alan
Rani Machoi wrote:
>
> We are running a 4.1 server, 64 Mb RAM, 2.5 gig HD, 25 user license, on a
> DOS/Windows environment. We load pserver at the server, attach the
> HPlaserjet III to a workstation, log in the workstation (although I
> understand that isn't necessary), load nprinter and then run pconsole
Correct if you move the nprinter files to either the hard disk of the
workstation, or the login directory of the file server.
> on that workstation so that users can track their jobs and change forms
> while standing next to the printer. This workstaion is an old PS/2
> 55, with 8 Mb RAM. The problem is that about half the time, pconsole sees
> that printer as unavailable. Pconsole run on any other workstation, as
One cause for this is rebooting the workstation. If it needs rebooting,
you MUST turn the w/s off and wait 10 seconds before restarting it. This
gives the fileserver time to realise that the nprinter session has been
disconnected, and will then allow a new one to be set up, otherwise you
will get a message saying "printer xxx already in use".
> well as printer server monitor at the server console, sees it as
> available and running just fine. The file server has 3 volumes, and at
> first the problem seemed to be related to whether the third volume or
> pserver got loaded first during server start-up, but now I'm not sure.
> The next step, of course is to replace the ps/2 with something better,
> but i'd rather not tie up a perfectly good machine as a print server
> if we can get this one to work. Has anyone seen this before or have any
> ideas?
> Thanks in advance,
Alan
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K D Johnson
> you MUST turn the w/s off and wait 10 seconds before restarting it.
I find that this sort of thing works:
NETSTART.BAT (or whatever)
LSL
<MLID>
IPXODI
VLM
F:
CLS
:RETRY
NPRINTER xxx xxx
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO :RETRY
With regard to the original problem, ISTR that NPRINTER is an SPX
function, it won't work if you load IPXODI with the "/D" switch and it
may help if you increase various SPX parameters in your NET.CFG.
Regards KD
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