(Fwd) Re: [WinMac] RE: Print Services Died

Bill Chapman(billc[at]sarc.msstate.edu)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:43:35 GMT+6

>This solution may not be related at all, since my environment is a Novell
>3.11 network with apple support. We have a situation very similar, that
>appears to be caused by the Laserwriter Bridge product (which allows a
>local laserwriter on the printer port to be announced to the appletalk
>network as if it were a real network printer).
>
>When the real bridge that connects our building to the campus backbone
>goes down, this laserwriter bridge product somehow causes all appletalk
>connections to go crazy.
>
>Our typical solution is to restart any macintoshes and printers, and to
>stop and restart appletalk support on the server. We do not have to
>reboot the entire server, just stop and restart appletalk. If your
>situation is analogous, it may save some time.
>
>We haven't had the problem since we got a real network aware printer, and
>stopped sharing the laserwriter NT that was connected to this mac.
>
>--Bill
>

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