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From: e3ukjh@fnma.COM (Kevin Hegg)
Subject: Re: NeXT Color Printer Supplies
Reply-To: e3ukjh@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:23:39 GMT

NeXT sells the ink cartridges in 6-packs. The developer prices for 6 black cartridges is $105 and for 6 color cartridges (2 of each color) is ~$150.  The only other source I found was Canon.  They will sell single cartridges.  The price for a single black cartridge is $20 and color cartridge is $30.  You can order them by calling 1-800-457-5999 and ask for Martha Allen.

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Kevin Hegg                       Internet: e3ukjh@fnma.com
Fannie Mae                       Phone: (202) 752-7813
From: ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 900 dpi DPS limit
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:44:22 GMT
	<pmarcos-250992080915@clive.mv.us.adobe.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.

In article <pmarcos-250992080915@clive.mv.us.adobe.com>, pmarcos@adobe.com (Paul Marcos) writes:

> To address the question of the original post, the point is that you can't
> rasterize anything to the screen at > 92 dpi so you're safe.  Remember any
> PostScript code is *capable* of generating images at any arbitrary
> resolution.  The problem would be if you image something to an off screen
> buffer and then send the bitmap, not the code, to a photo-typsetter that's
> capable of > 900 dpi.  You would probably have the world's cheapest
> Linotronic, not to mention putting Linotype/Hell out of business!

Unfortunately, this seems to put and end to the possibility of having a
decently priced PS-film recorder attached to a NeXT. Well, it could be
about the same resolution (in dots) as the screen, but if they just let
us use the laser printer effective bitmap size.

That's probably exactly the point to that licence limitation..  :(
-- 
     Tero Nieminen                 Tampere University of Technology
     ttn@cs.tut.fi                     Tampere, Finland, Europe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Re: SLIP Server Configuration
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:40:55 GMT

Thanks, Louie, for the answer to my previous post:

>In article <1992Oct3.192357.3207@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu >(Michael McCulloch) writes:
>
>>I want 'gandalf' to act as my SLIP server. The dial-out procedure for 'frodo'
>>attempts dial-out and the modem then connects with 'gandalf' at work.
>>However, the syslog file gives the following error:
>
>Let's examine the log closely...
>
	(log deleted...)
>
>Here's the telling error, of course:
>
>>Oct  3 13:35:27 frodo diald-slip0[566]: Script Error: waiting for password
>Looking at the fragment of the TCL script that generates this error:
>
>        expect timeout {error "waiting for password"} "*assword:*"
>
>We see that it is expecting to see a Password: prompt from the other
>side.
>
	(more stuff deleted...)
>I would either modify the login-unix.tcl script to not expect a password 
>prompt, or add a password to the account and have the login-unix.tcl script
>supply it when asked.
>
>louie

I disabled expectation of a password in the login-unix.tcl script and
everything seems to work OK, except when I establish a connection from the
client I never receive a response for telnet, ping, etc. I can see the 
modem sending the packets over the phone line, but the server never responds.
I'm also running into the following problems on the server side.

When rebooting my server (gandalf) with SLIP enabled in my rc.local file I get
the following message over and over (the loginwindow never appears):

Oct 5 09:43:07 loginwindow[230]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!

Also, AppleShare will not mount in /Net (I get NFS errors).

I've checked (and double-checked) my host configuration and NetInfo is only 
serving local. I do, however, have a default ethernet gateway set. My routing
table after booting looks like:

Routing tables
Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
localhost        localhost          UH          1      536  lo0
gandalf          localhost          UH          0        0  slip0
default          140.165.32.254     UG          2       17  en0
140.165          gandalf            U          37     1207  en0

Again, my entry in config.slip for the server is:

SLIP0LOCAL=140.165.32.59
SLIP0REMOTE=140.165.32.59
SLIP0NETMASK=255.255.255.0
SLIP0CONFIG=SLIP
SLIP0DEFAULT=NO

where 140.165.32.59 is the address of gandalf, the aspiring SLIP server.

When I disable SLIP and reboot, the AppleShare stuff mounts in /Net and the
loginwindow appears??

Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL
mmcculloch@nebula.tbe.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: obrooks@worf.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov (Oscar Brooks)
Subject: AppleShare Documentation
Keywords: Apple Share, Netware
Organization: NASA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:15:10 GMT


I have successfully installed NeXTStep 3.0 on my NeXTstation
and all is well. Buit were can I find documentation on Appleshare 
Netware on the system? I have tried using the Digital Librarian and
have found nothing. 

Thanks!
--

------------------------------------------------
Oscar Brooks		
NASA, Real Time Systems Branch
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Internet <obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> (NeXT Mail Preferred)
n and
have found nothing. 

Thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
Subject: Sendmail under 3.0 whats the story?
Summary: Sendmail under 3.0 whats the story?
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:42:23 GMT


What is the story with configuring uucp under sendmail in NS3.0, I know
that the sendmail-565c binaries I had do NOT work period.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Subject: Re: NS3.0 FloppyDisk Eject Problem
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com
Organization: Helical Systems, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 16:20:31 GMT

From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.0 FloppyDisk Eject Problem
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com

I've just been advised by a NeXT SE that the inability of 3.0 to eject/init floppies  
(and, on my machine, opticals and CDs) is a bug INTRODUCED between PR2 and the final  
release. Ugh.

Use /etc/disk.

Anyone else know a fix or workaround?

-- 
Robb Aley Allan, The Gulfstream Group
220 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480
voice: 407/ 832-4013   email: rallan@helical.com
Co-founder/director, Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
Subject: Re: loginwindow option
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 12:12:03 CDT

In article <1ac7q9INNb3s@gap.caltech.edu>
madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>I found out how I killed my system: as suggested in section 9 of the
>NextAdmin documentation, I added the option "-PowerOffDisabled true",
>as shown in the example, to the console line of /etc/ttys.  Then
>loginwindow simply hangs.  I took it out, and now it works again.
>Instead, I have it now in root's default database, and that seems to
>work.  (I.e. "dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled true".)
 
In setting loginwindow options via /etc/ttys, I once found that adding
any option--not just PowerOff Disabled--hosed the loginwindow.
 
On closer inspection, it looks like only around 128 characters can be
passed to loginwidow via /etc/ttys!  Whatever gets truncated will
appear to be an offending option.  So dwrite's are necessary as a
work-around.
 
:  Greg Johnson, Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst -- Campus Computing
:  233 Heinkel Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203
:  ccgreg@mizzou1.missouri.edu / ccgreg@monad.missouri.edu / 314-882-2000
From: theharv@csld (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpr problems
Date: 26 Sep 92 22:18:15 GMT
Reply-To: theharv@csld.ucr.edu
Distribution: usa

Our nexts are having a problem using lpr. It seems as though some users
can successfully use lpr to print a text file to our NeXT Laser Printer.
However, other users can't and get a warning panel that says:

"Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed"

Their console also gets this message:

Sep 26 15:06:21 mercury PrintServer[267]: Cannot find printer entry:  
Local_Printer

"mercury" is the name of the machine the user tried to print from using
lpr.

I can't understand why lpr would work for some and not for others. There  
is a /usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer directory. I don't do what would be
the problem.

Anyone know what is wrong?

Please reply by e-mail to:

theharv@csld.ucr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cpf8k@virginia.edu (Chris Fall)
Subject: Trash
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 02:18:39 GMT

I've an external hard drive which seems to have lost its trash can. When I rtry  
to dispose of files I get a message which tells me that there is no trash can  
and that the selected files will be permanently deleted. Any Ideas about how to  
reinstall the appropriate structure(s)?

Chris Fall
cpf8k@virginia.edu
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 10base-T or thinnet?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 01:19:02 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: drstupid.css.itd.umich.edu

In article <root.718320413@merlin> peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter  
Steele) writes:
> What's the true story? NeXT says the ports are autosensing, and
> someone has told us they are not. If someone could clarify this
> we'd appreciate it very much. Thanks.

NeXT is right.
--
dan pritts                consultant/system administrator
dan.pritts@umich.edu      um itd/css unix support group 
313/998-6265
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray)
Subject: Re: 3.0gold problem? - root can't select printer in PrintPanel
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:52:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.060109.4213@wuecl.wustl.edu> mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray) writes:
>I'm running 3.0gold on a turbo color.  User oracle can select "print..."
>from any menu and select a printer from the PrinterPanel, but user
>root and a few others only see the message "(no printer selected)"
>and clicking "[print]" gives the alert "you must select a printer".
>The "notes" field updates as I click on available printers, however.
>Is this some sort of permission problem or what?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Bray   mrb@earth.wustl.edu
>

The "root" login did not have a "HOME" directory configured in userManager.
Fixing this made lots of things work better, including WriteNow.  PrintPanel
and WriteNow both use the defaults database in /.NeXT, and don't bother 
to print error messages when they can't open the defaults database.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Subject: Re: NS3.0 FloppyDisk Eject Problem
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com
Organization: Helical Systems, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 16:21:15 GMT

From: rallan@helical.com (Robb Aley Allan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.0 FloppyDisk Eject Problem
Reply-To: rallan@helical.com

Tim Pugh writes
   craigh@domino.sps.mot.com (Craig Hansen) writes:
   
   >In article <1992Sep17.195148.13949@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> tim@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu  
   >(Tim Pugh) writes:
   >> Is anyone else experiencing a problem with floppy disk ejection.  To be
   >> more precise, I automount a DOS formatted disk, transfer certain files
   >> to the hard disk (copy).  When done I select Disk from the main menu
   >> of WS Manager and find that in the submenu, the eject command is inactive;
   >> i.e., it is grey (not balck).  Is this a bug or simply an installation
   >> problem?  Thanks for your response.
   
   I have since found that the problem is related to the running of Engage!
   Apparently a bug in NS3.0 causes this behavior when Engage! is running.


Don't think so. People are reporting this all over the place. I have the same problem,  
and don't run Engage. It affects all removable disks (ODs, floppies, CDs).

-- 
Robb Aley Allan, The Gulfstream Group
220 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480
voice: 407/ 832-4013   email: rallan@helical.com
Co-founder/director, Gotham Users of NeXT (GUN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette)
Subject: Hey, my NeXT won't speak french!
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:21:53 GMT


I really like the fact that with 3.0, I now have most of my
interface in french (except for online help and spell checking,
but that's another story).

Anyway, today I was printing something and my printer ran out of
paper. Up comes the warning panel: "Il n'y a plus de papier dans
l'imprimante." And a wonderful voice tells me: "Your printer is out
of paper." What!? :-/

Hey! If french is my main language (and my system language,
for that matter) then my NeXT should give me the warning in
french! I checked /usr/lib/NextPrinter/French.lproj,
and the sounds there are indeed french sounds. But they are not the
ones who are played. What gives?

I thought, hey, the print daemon must run under the user "daemon",
so I fired up UserManager, and told it that daemon's language is
French. Didn't help. In fact the warning still comes in english, but
now it seems like the machine only plays the sound when the Alert
Panel goes away! (Perhaps daemon wasn't meant to have a language! :-)

I also tried changing root's language to no avail.

BTW, does anyone know *where* the language info of a user is
in the netinfo database? It appears in UserManager, but when
I open a user in NetInfoMgr (to remove the language for daemon),
it doesn't appear anywhere...

Perhaps I should write to bug@next.com. Actually, I think I'll
cc this message to them.

Anybody got any ideas, clues, thoughts?
--
Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette       pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca
MacNUG president                      | *NeXTmail encouraged* 
graduate student, McMaster university | Je ne suis pas infaillible.
Physics and astronomy dep.            | Vive le Quebec LIBRE!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:42:29 GMT

frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes:

>In article <ti6ls.718300894@tuhhco>  writes:
>> As the man pages say "The current limit on file name length is 100  
>characters."
>> Has anyone fixed this bug?
>> 
>YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different servers)

Also there is some variant of tar that handles >100 char filenames
buried in 3.0, in Installer.app.  I think it's called
installer_bigtar.
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                  BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: C579819@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Subject: Help needed on Zilla.app (Distributed processing)
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 20:53:46 CDT

Does anyone on the net know something about Zilla.app?
I would like to do some distributed processing on the network here
and I would appreciate any information on using this application.
I would prefer it if you would email me directly as I don't have
much access to newsgroups. Any information would be appreciated
no matter how trivial. Thanks
Kevin Yoon
c579819@mizzou1.missouri.edu
"GO TIGERS!!!!"
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk Zones not appearing.
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:07:19 GMT
Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus

In article <9227519.25519@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> aris@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Aris  
Theocharides) writes:
> Hello,
>[...]
> After turning on the AppleTalk connectivity via the Preferances app, I
> re-boot, but with no Zones or Printers found. The /Net sub-dir is empty.
> 
> I use the default values that 3.0 has for the entries in the /localconfig
> part of NetInfo of the AppleTalk section.
>[...]

I am seeing a variation on this, where I am seeing only selected zones,
and very few printers.  On the Mac IIfx right next to my 3.0 Turbo, I can
see all, and connect to all.   

One question is complexity.  Our AppleTalk net is about 50 zones on about
30 ethernet and localTalk segments.  Has anyone seen 'flawless' connection
by a NeXT into an equally complex appletalk.  I am seeing 10 to 20 second  
delays when I click on a zone before I see any fileserver info, and 20-40  
second delays when I look for printers.

We are a Phase 2 network, if that means anything.  

- geoff
--
"The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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Geoffrey Brunkhorst, RCF                    brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
Guggenheim 10                                    (507) 284-1805
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905 USA     fax (507) 284-5231 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pmarcos@adobe.com (Paul Marcos)
Subject: Re: 900 dpi DPS limit
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Adobe Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:51:09 GMT

In article <TTN.92Sep27174422@mustarastas.cs.tut.fi>, ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero
Nieminen) wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this seems to put and end to the possibility of having a
> decently priced PS-film recorder attached to a NeXT. Well, it could be
> about the same resolution (in dots) as the screen, but if they just let
> us use the laser printer effective bitmap size.
> 
Maybe I didn't make sense.  You could do bitmaps up to 900dpi and send the
bitmaps down to a film recorder.  That's pretty good resolution if you ask
me.  I know nothing about PS-film recorders, but if it has a RIP (a
PostScript interpreter) built into it, then you should be able to send
PostScript *code* to it and get any resolution that the recorder can
physically do.  Does that make sense?  So if you've got a PS-film recorder
with a RIP built into it, then you're stylin', otherwise, you could to up
to 900 dpi.

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From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: next.com ?? Am I the only one who can't get through??
Date: 4 Oct 92 15:18:11 GMT
Organization: NASA/LeRC

I have tried a get a couple of emails through to different *@next.com  
addresses.  Three days later I get messges that my emails could not be  
delivered.  Is there something wrong with my mailer or does everyone have the  
same problem??

--
__________________________________________________________________
Jim Kiraly- jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov- NASA Lewis Research Center
----------------- NeXT Mail preferred ----------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: Re: Help needed connecting Supra 14.4 for dialin/out
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:25:25 GMT

wipeout@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) sayz:
>I just got a SupraFAXModem 14.4k to replace a Hayes 9600 v.42.  I had
>dialin/dialout working just fine, but now dialin is screwed.  I tried
>a few things.. but does someone out there already have the Supra working
>for dialin/out and can send me the config/settings?
>
>I am using a turbo color station w/040 modem cable from NeXTconnection.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Eric
>wipeout@netcom.com

Please post the solution.  I have the same machine and modem and problem. :-(
Eric, if you get mail, please please mail it to me.  :-)

++jerry(); // jscoggin@netcom.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
Subject: Fast find won't in 3.0
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:11:52 GMT

Every night at 2 AM, I run /usr/lib/find/updatedb to update the fast
find database (/etc/find.codes in 3.0).  However, to my great dismay,
it seems that using fast find (i.e. "find filename") doesn't work
anymore.  No matter what filename I enter on the command line, find
produces no output.  I checked that /etc/find.codes was world readable
(it was) and that it was non-empty (it was; ls reported its size as
~200K).  Frustrated, I su'd to root, mv'd /etc/find.codes to
/etc/find.codes.old, cd'd to /, and ran /usr/lib/find/updatedb.
After some 15 minutes, updatedb completed and there was a nice new
/etc/find.codes, also ~200K.  BUT fast find still wouldn't work.

ARGH!

Does anyone else have this problem?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Christian Kurrer)
Subject: Re: NetInfoMgr -- could this be right?
Reply-To: kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:43:23 GMT

In article <5315@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes:
> Dick Silbar writes
> > ...It appears that one can delete
> > entries from the 'printers' domain (and perhaps other domains?) 
> > WITHOUT having to give the root password.
> 
> This is correct.  Note the value of the _writers property in the
> domain's /printers directory.  A star here means anyone may
                                                  ^^^^^^^^?
> write this directory.
> 
> See Chapter 14, "Security," in the 3.0 SysAdmin book (currently
> available only on-line, in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin;
> Addison-Wesley is very close to publishing the book, at long
> last).
> --
> Alan M. Marcum
> NeXT Tech Support
> amm@NeXT.COM

Objections, your honor.

We have this star as value of the _writers property, but still nobody  
seems to be able to write to the / netinfo domain except for root on our  
/-domain server (not even other local roots). We have been trying to find  
out what causes this nuisance, but to no avail so far.

Whenever we want to make a Nextprinter publicly accessible on the /  
domain, we get the error message:
	"Couldn't add <printername> to domain / because
	 No writes allowed: all objects are read only"

Anybody have any clue what this refers to? Which "objects" are these, and  
how does one change them from being "read only"?

Thank you very much for any hints.

Christian Kurrer
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