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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.015814.1341@amd.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:58:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.191509.23698@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
|Somebody mentioned earlier that they were interested in printing
|from Windows with PC-NFS.  I use an SGI as the pcnfsd server and have no
|problems (even in 386 enhanced mode).  I use the LPT1.OS2 port in the
|control printer setup.  This is Sun's suggestion.  It seems to work well.

How do you check the queue? You telnet to the SGI. How do you
pause, resume, or delete a job? You telnet to the SGI. (actually,
you probably can't pause or resume as an ordinary user, only su
can use lpc)

How do you choose the server and the printer? Not from a Windows
menu, like you can with Novell.

How do you find out the name of the server(s) and the name of the
printer(s)? Under Sun PC-NFS you have to know them. Under Novell,
there's a menu which tells you the choices you have and you just
pick the one you want. Novell is user-friendly. Sun PC-NFS isn't.

Let's not talk about printer timeouts with Sun PC-NFS...

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