Re: [WinMac] Connecting G3's
Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:22:09 -0400
>From: jflynn@greennet.net (John Flynn)
>I need help! Trying to connect new apple g3's via netware queues to a
>HP4000N printer. Using netware 5.51 client for the mac. Netware printer
>chooser finds the printer but you cannot select the printer driver. The
>only drives that is selectable is laserwirter 8 but when exiting the
>netware chooser the chooser says there is no driver selected. Sometime
>we cannot get the netware chooser to come up. The hp driver will not show
>up in either netware chooser or apples chooser. First time my college has
>tried setting up Macs to a print queue on a PC server using Novell. TIA
John,
I'm not sure just how much help I can be as I've never used the Netware
5.51 Client for Macs. I've always used the Apple Chooser. I have used
Netware 3.11 thru 4.10 however and so I have a few ideas.
I don't know which you have there but in 4.10 I used ATPS (Apple Talk
Printing Services) that in essence takes the Netware print queue and
rebroadcasts it via AppleTalk. Some of you real techy guys may shudder at
that description but I think it's fairly accurate. At the same time you
can make ATPS hide the real printer so that Mac users have to print through
the Netware queue and not allow them to print directly to the printer.
If you have multiple zones that might be causing problems too. The Apple
Printer Utility that works wonders with Apple Printers may work with the
HP. I think HP has something similar. At least are DesignJet came with
something like that. Anyway if you can use one of those utilities you
might be able to assign the printer to a specific zone. Is your Netware
server seeding the AppleTalk zone for your area? If not then the printer
might be seeing a different zone when it starts up depending on which one
it happens to see first.
We used to name the printer and then name the Netware print queue the same
except to add an "NW_" in front of the name to avoid conflict and
confusion. So if we didn't hide our printers then in the Mac Chooser we'd
see two of the same printer. A "Pro630" and also an "NW_Pro630".
I also used to have to setup a new printer by first getting the PPD file in
the right place on the Netware server and then defining the new printer by
name and assigning it the proper PPD file. Then I'd setup the rest. All
that done in ATPSCON at the server.
Not sure if any of that will be of any use but perhaps some things to
consider. Let us know what happens.
___________________________________________________________________________
Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
Tel 336.716.4493 Medical Center Blvd
Fax 336.716.2808 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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