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- From: kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l)
- Subject: HP3SI *SLOW* printing solved!!
- Message-ID: <By4rHL.L4u@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Distribution: comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:31:55 GMT
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- Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions! Oddly enough, the
- problem doesn't appear to have had anything to do with IRQs.
-
- I set the forms line in pconsole to "1", sent a job, and found
- pconsole complaining about "waiting for form". This was reasonable,
- since I didn't have any forms defined - I was just randomly changing
- settings in the hopes that God would smile on me. So I changed the setting
- back to "0" so pconsole would quit complaining.
-
- The job printed inside of 3 seconds.
-
- I've since sent 3 more jobs under two IDs with different privileges and
- every one of them has printed in under 3 seconds. I have no idea why
- the forms setting would make a difference, but it did. This was on a
- version 3.11 newly installed on a Gateway 486DX2 50, with the HP3SI
- connected directly to LPT1, IRQ's set to "No", running off PSERVER.NLM 1.2.1.
- If I RPRINTER'd the thing from a workstation, it printed fine, but it
- took forever to print a job off the server. No more than two workstations
- were ever attached to this server at any point during the print-testing.
-
- If anyone can tell me what the hell happened, I'd sure appreciate it.
- Until then, I'm not touching that machine again until I find out what
- mysterious flag I cleared by setting and clearing the "Forms" line
- in pconsole.
-
- Boy, I hope I never have to take that file server down :)
-
- Steve
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-
- Steve Kellmeyer
- kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
-