Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!iguana!merce
From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: Re: novell and print spooling; VAP Print Server Questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.011907.278@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <23404@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <14360002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 91 01:19:07 GMT

In article <14360002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> gase@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Stephen T. Gase) writes:
>#  1) I installed the stuff in the file server. Now it asks every 
>#     time going up, whether I want to load the VAP or not &
>#     afterwards for the print server name. I hate this, because
>#     normally the server is supposed to go up silently without 
>#     any computer freaks answering funny questions about 
>#     things like VAP's loaders (at least most of my customers 
>#     don't like the idea to punch in some mysterious stuff to bring
>#     the server up). Is there a possibility to boot the VAP's and
>#     give the print server name from a file or something like that,
>#     so the server & print server goes up without any questions ??
>
>Create a file in the SYS:SYSTEM directory called "SERVER.CFG"
>with the contents "VAP WAIT 10".

this is all well and good, but what about the vaps that ask for names
like PSERVER?

what will the PSERVER's name be ?

if it defaults to the same one, what do you do if you run the PSERVER VAP
on multiple servers?

-- 
[ Jim Mercer   work: jim@lsuc.on.ca  home: merce@iguana.uucp  +1 519 570-3467 ]
[                "Clickity-Click, Barba-Trick" - The Barbapapas               ]