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Title:Novell NetWare
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Wed Feb 27 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2146
Total number of notes:7285

2139.0. "Garbage printing from Diskless w/station" by MIPSBX::"chowhueyjiun@msa" (msavc::chowhueyjiun) Mon Apr 14 1997 08:02

Hi,
     I have a customer who are using diskless w/station in which boot
     from Novell 3.12 server. Users are accessing WFW 3.11 from the
     the server. But when user try to print thru the diskless w/station,
     the printer print out garbage.

     The setting for print queue and print server are correct, because
     normal pc could print normally and the diskless w/station could print 
     normally too under dos environment. the printout is distorted when 
     users try to print under windows environment. The location of printer 
     temp file have been set to f: drive.

     Any solution on how to solve the problems ? Please help !!!!

     Thank you.



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2139.1do you have the right Win printer driver?NETCAD::ROLKEThe FDDI Genome ProjectTue Apr 15 1997 14:1913
What kind of printer do you have?  If you have a straight text printer 
you could just copy files to it as a test.  From a DOS box

	copy abc.txt lpt1:

This should print out ordinary text on a plain text printer.  I'm assuming
you are connected to the server through LPT1:.

If this works then you probably have an incorrect driver configured for
Windows.  From the Control Panel->Printers see what you have and make
sure that is correct.

Chuck
2139.2more infoNNTPD::"chowhueyjiun@msa"chowhueyjiunWed Apr 16 1997 12:2818
Hi,

     The printer is a network printer which is connect to a workstation.
     For diskless workstation's users, they could print in DOS prompt,
     if printer were to connect to the workstation LPT port, print job 
     could be printed out too (both in Dos and WFW).
     For PC's users, print job has no problem to print out thru the same
     queue in both environment.
     Problem only occurred when the diskless workstation try to print to 
     the network printer in the WFW.
     
     Please help !!!!!

     Thank you.


     For user who are using  
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2139.3Tab problem ??UTRTSC::LAMBERTS_HThu Apr 17 1997 06:3712
    Hi,
    
    could be that it is the tab conversion problem.
    (the tab gets converted into a number of spaces, graphic ducuments will
    print out as garbage)
    
    If you use the capture statement add the NT option.
    
    And un-tag the enable tabs square in the windows print manager. 
    
    Greetings, Hans Lamberts