[14438] in Hotline Meeting
Re: dups printer not printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Litt)
Thu Mar 18 22:21:02 1993
To: rita@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, boomer@Athena.MIT.EDU, boyfloyd@Athena.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 18 Mar 93 16:55:37 -0500
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 22:20:46 EST
From: Jonathan Litt <littlitt@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> Machine: dups (ln03)
>> Location: DU Cluster
>> 526 Beacon St.
>> Contact: pobox@athena, boomer@athea
>>
>> Problem: the ln03 is not printing.
>> Young and Brian checked the software and could
>> not restart it. A user by the name littlitt
>> logged into the server, and I had him flush, down
>> and restart the queue-- no success.
>>
>> Young and Brian are on the consensus that something is
>> wrong with the connection between the server and the
>> printer. Either the baud rate is set wrong, the cables
>> are bad or loose, or the board got fried on the printer.
>>
>> Someone will need to physically check it out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rita HelpDesk
I checked and sure enough, there was a loose cable in the back. The printer
works now. However, there are still problems with score. It logs on,
but it wont let you read any of your private files. That is, it thinks you're
someone else. Thanks. -Jonathan Litt
