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- From: reeves@rocky1 (Malcolm Reeves)
- Subject: Re: PCNFS and local printing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.035214.4703@access.usask.ca>
- Sender: news@access.usask.ca (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rocky1.usask.ca
- Reply-To: reeves@rocky1
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
- References: <8328@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:52:14 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- From article <8328@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, by george@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (George Travan):
- >
- > I have installed pcnfs4.0 on our pc network linked to our SUN IPX.
- > Remote printing to the Sparcprinter on the IPX works OK from the pc's,
- > even within MS windows applications, such as MSword etc.
- > My problem which I just noticed is that I can no longer print to a
- > pc's local printer when NFS is installed. Even as the default printer
- > though the control panel this doesnt work.
- >
- > To print to the local printer I have to uninstall PCNFS
- > It says in the manual that PCnfs 'doesnt interfere with the operation
- > of any printers attached to your PC'. But I cant see anything wrong
- > with the way I access the local printer from mswindows.
- > Anyone have any pointers??
- >
- > /Geo
-
- Don't have any answer but I have the same problem. Also I can't get a
- shared printer on a PC to function with any degree of reliability.
- Apparently this was also a problem in PCNFS 3.5. Anyone know a fix ?
-
- Malcolm
-
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- Malcolm Reeves, Geological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
- SK, S7N 0W0 aka reeves@rocky1.usask.ca aka reeves@dvinci.usask.ca
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