RE: [Sheflug] Printing on a Novell Printer

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

thanks for the reply.

> You may well need to make a connection to the Novell servers in order to get
> access to the print Qs that the printers service.  I used to work at

I think this is where the problem lies. I tried the command nprint, and
this is the response I got.

[nicola@bubby pictures]$ nprint -C -S yateholme.shef.ac.uk -U li1njr -q
INF_LJ_HP2500C game.log
Logging into YATEHOLME.SHEF.AC.UK as LI1NJR
Password:
nprint: Connection timed out when initializing connection

> Sheffield Hallam and this was the case there.  The printers were set up to
> only take their print jobs from a print queue on the servers and you could
> only put a job in the queue if you were a registered user. 

I can definitely access the server as it's also my mail server.

> haven't said whether you log in to the university network when you connect
> your laptop to the network or if you just log in to your PC.  If you only
> log in to your IMO PC you need to get your PC logged in to the NetWare
> servers before you'll be able to print.

My laptop is registered with the University network (I have an IP
address which is bound to my MAC address) and I'm currently attached to
this network.

I've contacted the University Computing Services who say that they don't
support Linux and to contact sheflug, which I'm now doing :-) Could the
problem be at their end? I download all my mail from this server onto my
laptop either directly (when I'm in Sheffield) or through the gateway
(when I'm at home) and have never had any problems. I can also ping it.
What is weird is the fact that before, I could at least submit a job
even though I couldn't print anything but blank pages. Now I can't even
do that.

Hope this is more information.

Cheers,

Nicola.



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