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In article <1992Sep28.205102.1675@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>  
pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep25.184124.4242@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> I wrote:
> > In article <}$#@byu.edu> yackd@oregon.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)  
writes:
> > > In article <1992Sep22.163029.5016@ornl.gov>,
> > > woo@ornl.gov(John W. Wooten) writes:
> > > >
> > > >What happened to my Printer?
> > > 
> > > I don't know, but it happened to me, too.
> > 
> 
> First of all, thanks to the many people that sent me their
> printcap info. But it didn't work. I got the Local_Printer in
> 
> I finally had to nidump all my user, group, nfs, hosts, etc.,
> info; copy the template netinfo database from
> /usr/template/etc/netinfo; and niload everything back.
> 
> MAJOR hassle. And it's going to be even worse for people who
> have a lab of machines...
> 
> Anyhow, I can finally print to my NeXT printer.
> --
> Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette       pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca
> MacNUG president                      | *NeXTmail encouraged* 
> graduate student, McMaster university | Je ne suis pas infaillible.
> Physics and astronomy dep.            | Vive le Quebec LIBRE!

I just discovered a semi-simple way to get the printer back.
The problem is in the .NeXT/.NextDefaults.L file that each user has. If  
you delete this file for each user, the system will create a new one when  
each user logs back in.  They can then print. IT IS NOT IN THE NETWORK.  I  
discovered this because a new user I added after the 3.0 conversion had no  
problem printing.  If you replace all the old . files of an old user with  
the new ones created for any-post-conversion users it also work.  

I played around comapring the . files and finally narrowed it down to the  
NeXT/.NextDefaults.L file.  

The catch with this fix is that each user losses their defaults (dock,  
preferences....) so its a bit of work for each of them to get things back,  
but it does work and it is not much work for the administrator.

(Note, we thought it was in our netinfo so we completely reinstalled the  
system from the CD with hard disk initialization and rebuilt our net from  
scratch except for the user accounts and LocalApps, LocalLibrary stuff  
which were on another non-system disk).

Hope this prevents a lot of you from doing an unneccessary amount of work  
like we did.

Mike Haker
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
haker@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu