[WinMac] JetDirect names change: Mac printing

Parker, Douglas(douglas.parker[at]lmco.com)
Fri, 14 May 1999 08:53:36 -0500

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I have a mix of Macs and WIN95/NT systems in an environment with NT servers.
Printers are connected to HP JetDirects. WIN systems print through the NT
print server to the printers--no problems there. Our Macs had been printing
through NT also, but that's been disabled--now the Macs print directly to
the printer via AppleTalk through the JetDirects.

But we're having big problems with the naming of the JetDirects: If the NT
queue is called ABC, and if the JetDirect is named ABC (SFM is not enabled
on the NT print server--I'm pretty sure that's right--the Mac output goes
directly to the JetDirect and never touches the NT queue), then after a
period of time (weeks) the JetDirect renames itself to either one of two
things:

        1) ABC1
or
        2) HP LaserJet Series n

where n is some integer. The value for n never stays consistent from printer
to printer. It's obviously picking up the next integer available as it
resets its name on the fly, or as you power cycle the printer.

We need to pin down a permanent name for our printers so our Macs can print.

Thoughts or insights? Thanks ahead of time.

Doug

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