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Lyle Giese wrote:
> 
> In article <allancDMvv5v.8Jw@netcom.com>, allanc@netcom.com (Allan C.) wrote:
> >
> >Hello.
> >I am an assistant system administrator on a Novell Network version 3.11.
> >We are having more and more troubles with the rprinter command as
> >time goes by, and would like to see if there is any solution from Novell.
> >It seems that rprinter stops working as soon as anyone logs off from the
> >network and doesn't re-invoke when they log back in.
> Hi Lyle!
How do you load TSR file at client?
Probabilly you have tried but, here is the way that I load it and we have no problems!
Put this sequence of commands in the AUTOEXEC.BAT, after load the NIC drivers.

:LOOP
C:\NWCLIENT\RPRINTER PSERV_SPA n -R
C:\NWCLIENT\RPRINTER PSERV_SPA n
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO :FAIL
GOTO :OK
:FAIL ECHO ****** WARNING !  PRINTER NOT CONNECTED *************
ECHO       ****** PRESS <Ctrl> C  TO STOP TRYING, OR ........
GOTO :LOOP
:OK

where "n" is the number of remote printer.



Don't forget that the following files must available:
IBM$RUN.OVL
RPRINTER.EXE
RPRINTER.HLP
RPRINT$$.EXE
SYS$ERR.DAT
SYS$HELP.DAT
SYS$MSG.DAT

Other tips:
Remember that RPRINTER requires the following:
IRQ lines are enabled
LPT1 is IRQ7
LPT2 is IRQ5
COM1 is IRQ4
COM2 is IRQ3

RPRINTER cannot support LPT3 if LPT1 is also used as remote printer.
RPRINTER uses about 9KB of RAM.
RPRINTER does not work well with Expanded memory managers like QEMM or 386Max.

Hope it help!