RE: [WinMac] Curious NT4 MacPrint problem

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Curious NT4 MacPrint problem
From: Bruce Johnson (johnson[at]pharmacy.arizona.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 16:07:23 EST

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:39:17 -0500 prescor@potsdam.edu (Romeyn Prescott)
wrote:

>Oh what a tangled web...
>
>Well, at the suggestion of a colleague, I tried upping the iMac to OS
>9.2.2 and applying Apple's "Ethernet Update 2.0".
>
>It worked.
>
>So now I have to upgrade all our lab-based 10/100 Macs to 9.2.2. No
>big deal, but THAT'S gonna break the installation of NAV 6. *sigh*
>No better time to jump to Virex, I suppose.
>
>Thanks for all your suggestions.
>
>I'll just say as an aside, and keep in mind that I'm a HUGE Mac fan,
>that I am starting to sympathize somewhat with my good friend and
>friendly neighborhood Network Administrator. It's rather tiresome to
>have to "dumb down" our network to accommodate Macs which seem to do
>things in such a non-standard manner when it comes to networking. We
>can't have Spanning Tree ANYWHERE. From what I've read about it it
>would be incredibly useful. Now there's THIS whole issue I wrote
>about. If that Apple patch hadn't worked, we'd have been forced to
>slap a 10Mb NIC in the server just to accommodate the Macs (and
>prayed that it worked!)
>
>Not really a rant on my part. More of a pessimistic musing.

Well, first, this is a common problem with 10/100 mixed networks anyway...most
of the problems we have had with these are with Wintel systems, in fact. It
can happen any time both sides are in autonegotiate mode...you can get into an
'After You, Gaston. No, after YOU , Alphonse' mode.

Did you also consider setting the ports on the switches to a fixed 100 full
duplex? That should also take care of it, and is usually what we end up doing.

Bruce Johnson
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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