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From: efdunne@dit.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: MS-WORD 50 with NetWare
Message-ID: <8589.28450840@dit.ie>
Date: 30 May 91 14:12:16 GMT
Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology
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Francois Muller writes : 

>I have a NetWork running under Novell NetWare 2.15.
>I installed it last week.
>I tried to run my single user WORD version but I could not print any
>file.
>Should I buy a net-version of WORD or should I reinstall it or did I
>make any mistake ?

You did not say if you could print anything at all on your NetWork with
or without MS Word. If you can print files from the DOS prompt or from
within PCONSOLE then ignore the next paragraph.

If you can't print at all, from within PCONSOLE or MS Word then it could
be a problem with your print queue + spooler setup. When you boot up the
file server, it looks for a file called 'AUTOEXEC.SYS' which is located in
SYS:\SYSTEM. If the file doesn't exist then the server defaults to creating
one print queue for each printer ,maps the queue to each printer and performs
the spooling. However, if the file exists and is empty (0 bytes) then the
default options will not be performed and nothing will get printed. We have
Advanced Netware 2.12 and it took me ages to cop that. The commands for the
'AUTOEXEC.SYS' are in the Supervisor's Reference + Guide manuals and go
along the lines of :
        To map a queue to a printer : P[RINTER] nn ADD [QUEUE] name
        To map a spooler to a queue : S[POOL] nn name
                [ ] - info in brackets is optional

So your 'AUTOEXEC.SYS' might read like :
        p 0 add printq_0
        s 0 printq_0


Back to MS Word. Are you using the 'CAPTURE' command ? We use MS Works and
I had problems until I realised that when I tried to print files, the data
was going to the ports on the back of the workstation instead of the network
printer. What the 'CAPTURE' command does is hang a 'GO AWAY' sign over these
ports so that the data is sent along the Ethernet cable instead or whatever
you're using. The format for 'CAPTURE' is :
        capture [options]
One the options you will want is : na ,  NoAutoendcap which means you don't
have to exit a package before it starts printing and for your purposes, it
may be the only option you will need but check the manuals first.

I hope that this will help anybody with a problem like this. But can I just
say that to run a package over a network, you must have a network licence
and everybody now knows that you don't have one.


Now that I'm here, I might as well throw in a question.

I'm trying to find out about what TCP/IP is all about. We have a Sun
workstation and I would to be able to connect it up to our Netware if
I knew what I was doing. Does anybody know of some good books on TCP/IP,
or even better, stick a few lines of info in plain English into the news to
gently break me into the subject.

Thanking you in advance,

Eoin Dunne.

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