Print spooling & SP5 error with Regsvr32.exe

Michael Eilon(mgeilon[at]geocities.com)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:26:54 -0500

WinMac Digest #395 - Thursday, August 19, 1999

  Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
          by "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
  Re: [WinMac] Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
          by "Tim Scoff" <tscoff@pitt.edu>
  Re: [WinMac] broken alias problem
          by "Freddf" <freddf@snet.net>
  RE: [WinMac] Win NT sbs 4.5 and the mac
          by "Glen Mark Martin" <glenmark@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>
  Print spooling & SP5 error with Regsvr32.exe
          by "Michael Eilon" <mgeilon@geocities.com>

Subject: Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:24:48 -0500
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        Tim,

        Your response puzzles me... Find a spare machine that has a couple of
empty PCI slots, then plug in el cheaapo dual parallel port PCI cards.

        Your $2000 per PC is unrealistic: You can find basic
PC-compatible boxes
for under $500 apiece, especially if you look at anything other than the
"latest and greatest."

        Cheers!
        Dan

PS: Note the ®Copyright statement in the CC directly to you...

At 10:04 PM 8/18/99 -0400, Tim Scoff wrote:
>>From a technical standpoint you're completely correct. From a money
>standpoint we can't afford to spend an extra $2000 on each printer. The
>reason I'm using the $2000 figure is we'ld have to replace a P-100 that is
>currently in use with a new computer in order to dedicate a low end
>computer as a print server the way you're suggesting.
>

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: Experiences with Print Manager Plus?
From: Tim Scoff <tscoff@pitt.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:22:27 -0500
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Dan,

      I don't have any spare machines like you described unfortunately. I'm
supporting end users running 486/33's with 4 MB of RAM. It's unfortunate,
but we just do not have a spare computer for each printer the way you are
suggesting.
      And the reason that I'm specifying one computer for each printer is
because I'm not supporting any two printers that are in the same room, let
alone within 50 feet of each other.

      As far as pricing is concerned you're right. I can find a low end
cheap box for under $500. However I can't find one with a 3 year on site
next day warranty, 17" monitor, 128 MB of RAM, DMI compliance, an NT
Workstation license, an internal Zip drive, a PCI 10/100 NIC, and a large
hard drive. When you add all of those items into the price of a new
computer to replace an existing computer which would then be dedicated to a
single printer you come up with about $2000.
      Remember, you get what you pay for. Cheap PCs are missing many
important features in an enterprise networked environment.

--On Thursday, August 19, 1999, 8:24 AM -0500 "Daniel L. Schwartz"
<expresso@snip.net> wrote:r

>
> Tim,
>
> Your response puzzles me... Find a spare machine that has a couple of
> empty PCI slots, then plug in el cheaapo dual parallel port PCI cards.
>
> Your $2000 per PC is unrealistic: You can find basic
> PC-compatible boxes
> for under $500 apiece, especially if you look at anything other than the
> "latest and greatest."
>
> Cheers!
> Dan
>
> PS: Note the ®Copyright statement in the CC directly to you...
>
> At 10:04 PM 8/18/99 -0400, Tim Scoff wrote:
>>> From a technical standpoint you're completely correct. From a money
>> standpoint we can't afford to spend an extra $2000 on each printer. The
>> reason I'm using the $2000 figure is we'ld have to replace a P-100 that
>> is currently in use with a new computer in order to dedicate a low end
>> computer as a print server the way you're suggesting.
>>

Tim Scoff
casper@nb.net

"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this
kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place."

Subject: Re: [WinMac] broken alias problem
From: "Freddf" <freddf@snet.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:22:38 -0500
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Hi from a y2k perspective, you have to apply sp 4 and sp5 for compliancy.
Your SFM services might be corrupt and "sort of " functioning so it may be
prudent to strip out the sfm and reinstall them. I think you may have
recreated the aliases fro your MAC clients.
Sorry, I do not know of any other quick fixes.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeroen Camstra <jeroenc@bigfoot.com>
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 10:09 AM
Subject: [WinMac] broken alias problem

> Winmac-ing people,
>
> We're running NT Server 4.0 with SP3 and sfmfix. After a server hang last
> night all mac users have aliases pointing to the wrong folders on the
> server volumes. I've had this problem before; back then there was no
> sollution for this problem and I still can find no information about
> solving this.
>
> Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Does SP4/SP5 help?
>
> With regards,
>
> Jeroen

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Win NT sbs 4.5 and the mac
From: Glen Mark Martin <glenmark@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:18:59 -0500
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Omar Ch=E1vez <OmarChavez@fliteline.usa.com> wrote:

>=20 2) Exchange for the Mac is a capable e-mail client, it's almost
>=20 exactly the same as the PC version with only one exeption: schedules
>=20 cannot be shared between Mac and PC users.
Correction: Calendaring items can be viewed cross-platform, but only in
a read-only mode.

We've also found a weird quirk with Outlook Web Access. Calendar items
created from the Mac client and PC clients cannot be simultaneously
viewed. To view items created with Mac Outlook, click on the Options
icon and check the box labeled "Use Microsoft Schedule+ as my primary
calendar"...

Glen Mark Martin
ACITS NT/OpenVMS Services
University of Texas at Austin

Subject: Print spooling & SP5 error with Regsvr32.exe
From: Michael Eilon <mgeilon@geocities.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:26:54 -0500
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Hi all,

I've got a couple of esoteric problems with NT, which I hope someone will
be able to help me with:

1) We have a WinNT server (SP5) acting as a spool for our Apple
LaserWriters. All the Win95 PCs spool through the server, and everything's
fine, except for one particular PC which can't print to one particular
LaserWriter... it can print to all the others, but if we try printing to
that particular one, we get the error "The Access code is invalid".

I've tried printing directly to the printer (ie: no spooling), but that
doesn't do anything.

I don't think it's a security/sharing permission thing on the server, as
I've double-checked that. Also, the printer share name is less than 12
characters long (I've learnt my lesson with that one!).

The really frustrating thing is that there's an identical printer (Apple
LaserWriter 12/640 PS) two offices down, set up pretty much the same to the
problematic one, which the PC can print to without difficulty!

Does anyone know what the error message means? I've looked around a
little, but haven't found much.

2) I'm having some problems installing SP5 on a Windows NT workstation...
towards the end of the installation, Dr.Watson pops up telling me there's
been an error in the application Regsvr32.exe. Nothing I can do about it,
so I continue with the Service Pack installation.

After restarting, any login to the machine hangs after the initial login
screen. After a bit of investigating, I found that it's Regsvr32.exe,
which takes up 100% of CPU capacity.

I've deleted it and things work OK now, but I'm wondering exactly what it
does. Does anyone know? Is there a resource on the net which would allow
me to read up on this? Have I been too rash in deleting Regsvr32.exe ?

(I've installed SP5 before, either on top of SP3 or straight after
installing NT from the CD, without incident.)

Any advice/comments would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Michael Eilon
Assistant computer manager
Dept. of Physics
University of Western Australia

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