Hi,

I was called by a customer to reconfigure their novell 4.1 network, and he asked me to send Arev's printing jobs to a dot matrix printer attached to a workstation with printer sharing enabled, but I found some problems.

- Two or three minutes are required before printing starts.

- Sometimes it is necesary to close Arev for printing to begin.

I have checked/changed everything in Printers Settings (including spool and port setup), and still have not found a solution. Printing locally from this station works ok.

Any help will be appreciated.

ilde.

Ilde ..

Personally, I detest the Windows shared printer thingie. Instead, I use the Novell utilities:

1. Define a print server and queue

2. Load the Novell driver on the workstation after logon

The performance is much better. I've had nothing but grief using Microsoft printer sharing. Timeouts don't seem to work, the capture of LPT1 from a workstation to the queue on the shared printer machine seems to go off into the woods, requiring the reboot of the printer server.

Don Miller

C3 Inc.

Thanks Don!

There are times when one feels so frustrated by what he thinks is its fault, till someone comes in and clarifies things.

Regards,

Ilde.

Your using a capture script to the relevant print queue as part of Novell logon? In the capture script you can define the time-out. Only gets a little problematic if your doing a postscript print job.

Richard Bright

BrightIdeas New Zealand

If you are using AREV 3.12, set "Yield time to Windows" active (from the SYSPROG account)

From AREV's Windows shortcut memory tab, ensure that the application is not exclusive in foreground, so it allows background tasks (including printing).

Check your Windows printer settings - sometimes these are set to spool until document is done, then send to printer - you may be able to use another print spooler setting here (say to send progressively) - depends on your printer facilities.

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