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Subject: Re: charon 4.0 lpr problems
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:54:05 GMT
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>
> Quoted text........................................
>     Help!
>
>     I just downloaded charon 4.0
>     ,<deleted stuff>... but the LPR spooling keeps giving me a
>     warning about the spool dir
>     <more deleted>.......
>     Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong? The charon print server is a
 member of
>     the charon gropup, and the charon group has full access to the directory
>     sys:home/charon and all its subdirectories.
>
>     <more deleted>.....
>
>     |  Hamish Marson   <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz>
> End of Quoted text....................................
>
> I, too am interested in talking ot folks who have gotten Charon 4.0
> running.  I messed with 2.0 a little before (with LOTS of help from
> you all on the list) but abandoned it for 4.0.  So far I can't get
> 4.0 running -- I'm sure it's some stupid, little thing that I am
> doing wrong that maybe someone else has already figured out.
>
> Here are my results so far .....

Iam still running 3.4 but I think I can help on some of the points...
>
> After sitting down with the system adminitrator for the uinx stuff for
> several hours we have configured the setup files and managed to get
> Charon to run without errors, but:
>
> 1)  We can't figure out how to send files to Charon from unix yet -
> sending to the charon IP address gets lost - never goes anywhere.  This
> isn't something we had figured out yet in 2.0a yet, either, and is not
> specifically a 4.0 "problem" like the following.  I would still love
> to hear how it's done, though.

Does charon open a smtp session to you unix machine?? Use the smtp
debug window for this...

>
> 2) The server status line in Charon says "Connection - failed"

Do you have a packet-driver installed and is the config.tel set to it
??

>  > 3) Sending jobs via the outgoing queue we find that the status
> is "ready, waiting for print server (Charon, we presume).

That's ok.

>
> 4) If we run Charon from a disk it doesn't show up as a user on
> the Novell server.  If we run it from a novell directory (using
> loader) it appears.  (Still doesn't service jobs, though)

There is *big* difference between the user charon, the group charon
and printserver charon. The most important one is the print-server
account, if you start charon of a local hard-disk then it should only
log in as a pserver (I use this method too).
Maybe you have a password assigned to the pserver account and not
edited into the charon.dat file.

>
> 5) In pconsole we never get a "status/control" option for the
> print server named charon, indicating that Novell thinks it is
> "down"

That't correct. Charon is not a 'advertising' print-server.
>
> It feels like we are ever soooooo close, but must be missing
> something somewhere.

Think so too

Greetings... Henno.


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