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Date: Sun 05-Nov-1991 23:46:03 From: rick@panther.net.wsu.edu (Rick Wegner) Subject: lost connection error from lpd I am trying to configure my NeXT station to spool files for print from an IBM/VM system using the FAL drivers and LPR to another remote printer. Every time I send a print job to the NeXT I get: lpd[836]: ncstest: Lost connection Is lpd broken on the NeXT as delivered? or did I do it somehow? Anybody have any ideas?? Rick Wegner Network Services Washington State University Pullman, WA. 99164 (rick@panther.net.wsu.edu)
Date: Sun 06-Nov-1991 06:38:40 From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: lost connection error from lpd In article <1991Nov5.234603.1064@serval.net.wsu.edu> rick@panther.net.wsu.edu (Rick Wegner) writes: >I am trying to configure my NeXT station to spool files for print from an >IBM/VM system using the FAL drivers and LPR to another remote printer. Every >time I send a print job to the NeXT I get: > lpd[836]: ncstest: Lost connection >Is lpd broken on the NeXT as delivered? or did I do it somehow? Anybody have >any ideas?? lpd isn't believed to be broken *if* you're running 2.1. It was quite broken in 2.0. A better question is, is it broken on the IBM side? I'd take that question to The People Who Know Those Things--the friendly folks at Brown University. The do-it-yourself answer requires that you have a networked Mac handy (sorry). They've written a Mac lpr client that can talk to VM/CMS--and I believe it knows how to compensate for some obscure form of breakage. FTP the following from BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU in ASCII mode: lpr.read-me This tells you what the other two files are lpr12.seahqx Application and user documentation lpr12src.seahqx In case you want to know what it REALLY does If this "solves" the mystery, do let us know. Then we can chatter about what, if anything, needs to be fixed. -=EPS=-
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