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- From: jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
- Subject: Printing problems from LifeLine Mail
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:19:07 GMT
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- I have one (and only one) user with this combination:
-
- LifeLine Mail 2.0
- PC-NFS 4.0a
- DOS 5.0
- Windows 3.1
- Qualitas 386MAX 6.02
- Generic 386DX hardware
- 3Com 3C503 and NDIS drivers
-
- He typically doesn't use LifeLine Mail from inside Windows, although
- RTM is loaded. LPT3: is redirected to a QMS PS-810 which is connected
- via SunTOPS to a Sun 670MP server running SunOS 4.1.3 and the latest
- rpc.pcnfsd from bcm.tmc.edu. LPT2: is redirected to a printer directly
- attached to the same server. LifeLine Mail is set to print using "net
- print %s lpt3:". Both printers are in "raw" mode and are flushed out
- using the printer hot-key.
-
- When he tries to print from inside LifeLine Mail, the machine locks up
- almost immediately and has to be power-cycled to recover. The print
- data does in fact get to the server. When I reconfigure to use LPT2:
- instead of LPT3: the results are the same. Printing from outside
- LifeLine Mail does fine.
-
- After fooling around with it awhile, I made a script called netprt3.bat
- which essentially does a "net print %1 lpt3:". I set up LifeLine Mail
- to print using "netprt3 %s". Strange as it may seem, this works.
- Until a couple of days ago. Nobody can remember doing anything to
- either the PC or the server to affect the operation of the printers.
- Printing from outside LifeLine Mail still works.
-
- Now he gets this message:
-
- net print PB66978C lpt3:
- Queueing file [PB66978C] ...
- NFS210F : Error on network printer (code 1022):
-
- I looked up the NFS210F error code in the Reference Manual, and it says
- to dismount and remount the printer. Tried it, to no avail. Went back
- to "net print %1 lpt3:" and got hangs again. At this point, I tried
- using LifeLine Mail from inside Windows, then printing. It didn't
- hang, but it didn't print either. In all these cases the print data
- did get to the server.
-
- Nobody else has problems printing from inside LifeLine Mail, and to the
- same printer at that. Then again, nobody else has the same exact
- combination.
-
- I don't know where these network printer error codes are documented.
- Are they errno + some number?
-
- I sure wish rpc.pcnfsd would syslog more diagnostics. Anybody else
- feel the same way?
- --
- J. Porter Clark jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov or jpc@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov
- NASA/MSFC Flight Data Systems Branch
-