Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!syma!andrewn From: andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: lpd problems , X Windows Message-ID: <1220@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 9 Aug 89 12:37:22 GMT Reply-To: andrewn@syma.UUCP (Andrew D Nimmo) Organization: Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK Lines: 52 Regarding recent questions about setting up lpd for an apollo network, we cannot get it to work as described in the administration manual. We are running SR10.1 ( and SR10.0P on a DN10000 ) - prmgr, prsvr and lpd run on the printing node, the spool queues are also on the printing node. If the other nodes on the ring have a spool directory with a file 'servername' specifying the printing node any print requests are queued but the warning 'no daemons present' is returned. The only way to cause printing to start is to restart (lpc) the required printer on the printing node. We do actually have lpd working by running lpd on every node, but with the printcap file giving the full pathname of the spool directory on the printing node (the only /usr/spool/lpd directory in the network). NB The DN10000 doesn't even work using the second method. Is this a problem with lpd, NCS or something else? On a completely different subject - I have X Windows Version 2, Revision 3 up and running on our network. When will apollo (UK or US) release their official version (with X Windows and DM support) and the MOTIF interface? Andrew D. Nimmo VLSI and Graphics Research Group, EAPS II, University of Sussex, Falmer, BRIGHTON, East Sussex. BN1 9QT, U.K. Tel: +44 273 606755 extn 2617 JANET: andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!syma!andrewn andrewn@syma.uucp -- this is a test of the sig .