From: denb@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Dennis R. Bournique)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Pserver.vap & ELS II (V2.15c)
Summary: Should Pserver.vap work with ELS II (V2.15c)
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:42:43 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University

We have been running a five node ELS II (V2.15c) network for 3 years with
very few problems.  The fileserver is an Everex Step 386DX/33 with 4MB.
Printing is to an Epson FX85 on the server's lpt1 and an HP IIISi on the
server's com1.  Using core printing this works well.  Recently, I tried to
add a third network printer to a workstation using pserver.vap (v1.22) and
rprinter (also v1.22).  Using the latest pconsole from putil2.zip I created
a new queue and printserver assigned the queue to the printserver and defined
the printer as remote lpt1 using defaults of irq7 and 3kb buffer.  I installed
pserver.vap in \system and rebooted the server. The server console prompted for
the server name which I gave it and all seemed well. So I launched rprinter on
the workstation and it came up fine and knew the name of the pserver and queue.
I then tried to nprint to the new queue.  Nprint accepted the queue name and
said it was spooling the file.  The printer just sat there and did nothing for
ten minutes before printing the first line of the file. It continued to print
at the rate of aproximately one line every ten minutes.  The workstation, by
the way, running the rprinter was a 386dx/20 (1988 Mylex MB, Ami bios, Chips
chipset, 1MB of RAM).  The printer was a Panasonic KX1091.  Psc and pconsole
showed the queue as active and printing and that the job was 0.24% done.  At
the time of the test only the two workstations mention above were logged in
and neither was running any applications.  There were no TSR's running on
the workstation with rprinter except ipx and netx (the latest versions from
dosup5.) Dos 5.0 was loaded high with highmem.sys but ipx, netx and rprinter
were loaded low. Shell.cfg contained spx connections = 50 and local printers
= 0.  I tried increasing spx connections to 100 but no improvement was seen.
I tried local printers = 1 but that didn't help. Throughout this I still had
core printing enabled to the 2 printers on the file server.
	I theorized that pserver wasn't supposed to co-exist with core printing
so I reconfigured the filserver to have no core printing. I deleted all the
queues and pservers and created a new pserver serving 3 queues (one for each
printer).  With this configuration only the Epson FX85 on the server's lpt1
worked properly.  The rprinter attached printer still printed 1 line per 10
minutes.  The laser on the server's com1 also seemed to be printing at about
1 line per 10 minutes ( I didn't wait 7+ hours for the first page to come out
but after 20 minutes pconsole said that the job was .24% completed (it was a
45 line file.)  At this point I gave up and reverted to core printing which
still works fine.  The workstation with the rprinter  prints fine to it's local
printer from DOS.
	Am I doing something wrong or is pserver simply incompatable with
ELS II.  The release note with pserver.vap says it works with v2.15c and
later but doesn't specificlly mention the ELS II variant of v2.15c.  I would
appreciate hearing from someone successfully using pserver with ELS II.
	Is there any FTP'able documentation for pserver/rprinter?  Our copy
of Netware was apparently released before pserver and rprinter were implemented
for V2.X as there is no reference to pserver or rprinter in any of the big red
books that came with it. I've looked at all the 3rd party books I could find
and think I'm doing everything right but I must not be.
	Also, how much does Novell charge to upgrade from ELS II to the 10
user V2.2 or V3.1?
				Thanks,
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Student - San Francisco State University          San Francisco, CA 94132