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- Subject: Mac printing over Novell network HELP!!??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.172702.3549@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:29:32 GMT
- Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
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- We have struggled with our Mac equipment and our Novell network
- for weeks trying to get everything to work together properly.
- We are running Novell Netware 3.11 and Mac Netware 3.01 on a
- Zenith 386/33 file server, with 10BaseT wiring. We are mostly an IBM
- compatible-based installation, but we have a few clients who
- need Macintosh services on the network. We have a combination
- of Shiva and Asante network cards for our Mac II, IIsi's, and
- SE/30s. We are using the latest software version for these
- cards, and the Asante software drives both cards equally well.
- We have queues set up on the Novell server using ATPS print
- server drivers.
-
- The problems we have are:
-
- o How do we get Macintosh printers to be recognized on the
- network? We have a LaserWriter IIg that may connect directly to
- Ethernet, and two LaserWriters connected to Macs. Is there some
- hardware/software that lets the Network know that a printer is
- here, associated with a print queue, and available to other Macs
- via the Chooser? It is not easily possible to run LocalTalk connections
- from the File Server to all of the Macintosh equipment, and seems silly
- since the Ethernet is already in place.
- o All of our Macs are running System 7.0 or higher. We
- have had a problem with "time-outs" when connecting a Mac to our
- file server. After a login is established on the network, the
- Macintosh will become very sluggish, allowing the user about 5
- seconds to use the arrow cursor to work, and then timing out
- with the watch cursor for about 35 seconds, and repeating the
- cycle until you log out of the network. It does not happen with
- a bare-bones System 7 install, followed by a reboot with
- extensions off, followed by installing the card drivers. Any
- hints as to what causes this?
- o Any info about setting up multiple queues for multiple zones?
-
- Any help would be worth dinner, wherever and whenever,
- vegetarian or no (if geographically possible).
-
- Dave Singleton, Jeff Fluharty, Kathy Myers
- Three People Ready To Drop-Kick a Mac, or Novell Server, or Both.
- Reply here or to: UN041111@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU, or single@exodus.wvnet.edu
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