NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/bit/listserv/notabene/941

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From: [e-mail] (Austin Kerr)
Subject: NB 3.0 printer install
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 12:43:41 GMT
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A strange thing happened Friday (there is still not NB support at Ohio State).
A secretary using an old 8088 Zenith with a hard drive is now on a Novell
Network, connected to a HP II printer without a font cartridge.  She had no
printer installed on her NB, yet usually could, through the network, get files
to print (in Courier). A Dean(let), who thinks central computers are wonderful
and that it is wrong to empower individual professors with individual machines
and software, told her she needed to install a printer on NB in order to print
properly. (He does not know NB.) So I was called in to install the HP printer
for her, and to install the Epson FX 85 that is attached at her local site.

Now, when she is in NB\Work, and I try to Designate a printer, none is listed.
When I switch to C:\NB, however, I can find the Epson printer on her screen and
selected it as the primary printer.  (She had me NOT put on the HP II becasue
she is happy with her ability over the network to use it.) What has gone awry?

Our secretaries who are used to NB think it is a wonderful program and are very
upset with the efforts to force everyone to use a much more expensive version
of network programs that do not seem to do the job as well.  But who are they
to know?