Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!emx.utexas.edu!benedict From: benedict@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Benedict) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Networked Printer Problems Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 14:46:48 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Distribution: comp.sys.sgi Organization: Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 30 We've had some trouble with our printers ever since the upgrade to Irix 3.3.1. We have a server (Iris 4D/80) with an Apple Laserwriter attatched to it. Also on our network are three workstations (4D/25, I think...) that use the Laserwriter as a networked printer. This was all hunky dory until the upgrade. Ever since that time two of the three still recognize it, but the third won't. Now it gets weird... I checked the workstation out, and it appeared the spooler wasn't running. I restarted it and got no error messages. Fine. Check it again. Not running. I tried printing something and got a couple of error messages. I looked them up in the manuals and mostly came up with "Try this command later." Aieeee! Then I got smart. Remove all the printers and reload them anew. So I tried to delete the printer. Error message... "Try this command later." No dice. I moved all of the printer software off to a safe place and loaded a set I KNEW worked from one of the other workstations over onto this one. Same story, no luck. What's really got me puzzled is that what with all of the changes from 3.2 to 3.3.1, the laser printer support was not among them. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or what might cause this? I'm at a loss of what to do at this point. Tom Benedict benedict@chaos