[41471] in Hotline Meeting
New Printer for Athena at WHOI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cunningham)
Fri Jan 16 09:45:59 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:45:42 -0500
From: Eric Cunningham <ecunningham@whoi.edu>
To: op@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
We will be adding a new, second printer to our Athena cluster here at
WHOI. Can someone at Athena tech support work with me to get this
accomplished?
Some issues:
1. This new, second printer has not been purchased yet as I want to 1st
verify what printers are supported by Athena. We currently have an HP
Laserjet 4si MX named "scallop" whose print server is "tautog". Naomi
Schmidt indicated that either HP 5m or HP 5si MX are supported. I
assume these are newer versions of the Laserjet 4? Will the HP 5 series
require a JetDirect card to work w/Athena?
2. I would prefer this new printer be served by a 2nd print server, if
possible. This would require making another of our Athena workstations,
called "quahog", a print server. The reason for this is physical
proximity of the machines. The existing printer and 2 workstations are
in 1 building. The other 2 machines are about 1.5 miles away; the new
printer would be located at the distant site. Frequently, network
problems and power failures affect 1 site and not the other so I'd like
them to not be dependent upon each other.
3. I'd like to define "scallop" (the existing printer) as the default
printer for the machines "tautog" and "squeteague". I'd like to define
the new printer (I've yet to come up w/a name) to be the default printer
for the machines "menhaden" and "quahog".
Some IP, location and other info:
Quisett Campus:
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tautog 128.128.16.220; Sparc 5; Solaris 2.5.1; Athena Server
(sun4) Version 8.1.7; 1st floor Clark, CIS; print svr
for
scallop printer
squeteague 128.128.16.221; Sparc 5; Solaris 2.4; Athena Workstation
(SUN4m) Version 8.0L; 1st floor of Clark in CIS
scallop existing HP Laserjet 4 si MX printer
Woods Hole Village:
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quahog 128.128.92.175; Sparc 5; Solaris 2.4; Athena Workstation
(SUN4m) Version 8.0L; Bigelow 213; proposed print server
for new printer
menhaden 128.128.108.204; Sparc 5; Solaris 2.4; Athena Workstation
(SUN4m) Version 8.0L Redfield 107
new priner
Thanks in advance.
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Eric Cunningham
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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