Trouble with PrintCon & related utilities in Netware 6.5.3
Warren Frush
6.5.3 (or 6.5.4 , there's a little confusion). I basically build the
eDirectory from scratch, copied in the old files, re-assigned file
rights, and converted Groupwise up to 6.5. Overall, it went fairly
well.
The remaining problem involves my previous use of printer
configuration, either by using NWADM32 or PRINTCON and PCONSOLE.
Because a fresh install of NW 6.5 doesn't install any of the old
DOS-based print-queue configuration programs, I have copied the
necessary files in from the old server. I put them in their own sub
folder in the public directory, so they aren't mixed in with the
"fresh install stuff."
When I use NWADM32 to try to maintain a default set of print
configuration settings, I can't save my changes. It gives me a
message that the printer configuration database is corrupt. I can
make changes using PRINTCON, but only if I save it down to a user. On
the older server and older eDirectory (it was called NDS then), I
could have a print-capture setting that applied to the entire
container. Now I don't seem to be able to do that.
Basically, I've had to modify all the batch files to code the
printer capture settings into the batch file. Before, the batch file
could read:
capture j=receipt_printing
now it has to read
capture L=1 NFF Q=ReceiptPrinter_Q NB TI=4
This second form works fine, but now the printer capture settings are
stored in multiple batch files. Before, I could maintain the job and
it would be good for every batch file that used those settings. Now I
have to change every batch file.
I suspect that I need to log in using Bindery Mode as every user,
to create the proper directory names in the SYS:MAIL folder system.
But that doesn't seem like it will restore the ability to have
printer-capture settings stored in NDS at the container level Is
there any way to get this back? Is my print=capture setting database
corrupt? I don't see how, if everything was from a fresh install. Way
back in the 2x and 3.x bindery days, the database was a file in the
public directory. But once the print-capture settings were
maintainable by NWADM32, I was pretty sure it only existed in the
NDS/eDirectory database. It acts as if the database doesn't have
some old-style extensions that let it hold this data.
Do you think I can get this print-job configuration capabiilty back or
is it gone for good?
Warren
Tommy Mikkelsen
PrintCon and the rest of the utillities you are mentioning are dead a long time ago.
With NW 6.x, please use iPrint, and to manage, use iManager
http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw65/iprint/data/front.html
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