Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!debussy!petersja From: petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows3.0 and PCNFS Keywords: PCNFS Printer Sharing Message-ID: <14410@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 22 Apr 91 14:23:18 GMT References: <1991Apr21.013446.7177@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department Lines: 31 In article <1991Apr21.013446.7177@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cohen@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Cohen) writes: >In article tw@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Weichert) writes: >>We are using pcnfs for shared devices in the department form our Labtam >>386/20 with a 3COM501 card. trying to print from within Word for Windows >>doesn't produce any results at all other than the print manager returning >>the message "printer error cannot communicate with printer check ..bla bla" >>Has anybody else out there a similar setup running? >>The printer is a Applewriter Plus connected via Multigate(Interfacing device >>for Appletelk to Ethernet) to our network using a Sun 3/50 as server with >>var/tmps/muggi as spool directory. Everything works ok using the net print > >I have the same problem with a different hardware setup, so I suspect a basic >incompatibility between windows and PCNFS. I have been supporting a similarly configured machine and, except for some initial difficulties related to ingnorance, have experienced no difficulties printing to a laserwriter. Most of the problems we experience with printing usually trace to the software on the Sun.... -- james lee peterson petersja@CS.ColoState.edu dept. of computer science colorado state university "Some ignorance is invincible." ft. collins, colorado (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-2293)