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Started by Robert Frank
Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:03
3.0 AppleTalk printing and new acsounts
Author: Robert Frank
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:03
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:03
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Hi netters I just sucessfully upgraded to 3.0. Most of the things are running perfectly and the system has only crashed once when trying to move a directory from an external 2.1 disk to the internal 3.0 disk. (The 2.0 disk required 5 fsck passes to be "cleaned" - but I have a full backup.) I even managed to get appletalk to work and can share files with our macs. BUT: I cannot print directly to the apple laser via (ethernet) AppleTalk. I noticed that 3.0 has more configuration information files for printing than 2.1, but I did expect the appletalk stuff to work. I installed and enabled apple talk as mentioned in the docu. I created a new printer with the printermanager application as given in the man pages to apple talk an if I send something to print, it shows up in the queue and the lamps on the printer start to blink indicating incoming data, but nothing is actually printed. The EtherTalk <-> AppleTalk gateway is an old GatorBox. Printing from a Mac causes no problems. Remote printing via the BSD remote printer system to the GatorBox works! The other thing that disturbs me is creating a new account. Under 2.1 I had configured the /etc/nu.cf file to automatically select a specific group and home directory path so that the UserManager application would show up with the appropriate entries. This is no longer the case. The group is selected, but the home directory path is always /! What am I missing here? -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Re: 3.0 AppleTalk printing and new acsounts
Author: Blackplague
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:41
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:41
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In article <1992Dec15.160310.20037@urz.unibas.ch> writes: > Hi netters > > I just sucessfully upgraded to 3.0. Most of the things are running perfectly > and the system has only crashed once when trying to move a directory from an > external 2.1 disk to the internal 3.0 disk. (The 2.0 disk required 5 fsck > passes to be "cleaned" - but I have a full backup.) I even managed to get > appletalk to work and can share files with our macs. > > BUT: I cannot print directly to the apple laser via (ethernet) AppleTalk. I > noticed that 3.0 has more configuration information files for printing than > 2.1, but I did expect the appletalk stuff to work. I installed and enabled > apple talk as mentioned in the docu. I created a new printer with the > printermanager application as given in the man pages to apple talk an if I send > something to print, it shows up in the queue and the lamps on the printer start > to blink indicating incoming data, but nothing is actually printed. The > EtherTalk <-> AppleTalk gateway is an old GatorBox. Printing from a Mac causes > no problems. Remote printing via the BSD remote printer system to the GatorBox > works! Sounds to me like you didn't select the right driver in printmanager. I know there are several drivers for different LaserWriters. If you select the wronge one, information still gets sent, but the printer can't handle it. Christian Smith
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