Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!gsbsun!bdh From: bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows3.0 and PCNFS Keywords: PCNFS Printer Sharing Message-ID: <1991Apr23.191140.12814@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 19:11:40 GMT References: <1991Apr21.013446.7177@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 33 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 >>command of PCNFS for ASCII files and the likes, but the intention is of course >>to use postscript if possible! >> >>Any help appreciated >>Thank YOU(whoever) Thomas >> >> >> >> >I have the same problem with a different hardware setup, so I suspect a basic >incompatibility between windows and PCNFS. > Ron I have Windows 3.0 running with an older (soon to be upgraded) version of PCNFS. I have a Laserwriter IInt, a I, and a QMS (of some kind) running off a Sun all accessible from within windows and from dos. I can print a .bmp, print a postscript file, and plain ascii text. Its probably not an incompatibility issue. -- "Hire the young while they still know everything."