[28871] in Hotline Meeting
Bad ramifications of blindly relocating a workstation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric F. Cunningham)
Thu Jun 22 15:15:03 1995
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 15:14:29 -0400
From: "Eric F. Cunningham" <eric@salmon.whoi.edu>
To: jjmorey@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, eric@salmon.whoi.edu
Hi JJ. I hope you can help me. The further I go, the deeper I get and
the saga of moving WHOI Athena workstations continues, despite my best
efforts ;-)
I got tautog (128.128.92.175) relocated and I even eventually got it
booted. However, I found out today that tautog is (was) the printer
server for the WHOI Athena printer scallop, an HP Laserjet 4si MX (I
know- had I known this, I would've moved a different workstation).
Anyway, the printer no longer works. Tautog is now abt 1.5 miles away
from it's client printer; they are no longer on the same subnet, gateway
or broadcast area.
Rather than perpetuate this long distance relationship, I'd really
like to make another workstation be the print server, if this is
possible. The workstation is quahog (128.128.16.222). It resides
on the same subnet, gateway and broadcast area as the printer scallop
and is physically sitting right next to it. The alternative is to
move tautog back from whence it came and relocate quahog (yuch).
Currently, trying to submit print jobs from tautog using lpr responds
that print queuing is disabled. lpc, however, shows print queuing
enabled. On the remaining WHOI Athena workstations, print queuing
appears normal but nothing is actually printed. On the printer, there
is an error code "18 upper mio" that doesn't clear despite cycling power
and/or resetting.
Also, to preserve tautog's local rc.net changes across downloads, I'd
like to get its new gateway info into the master rc.net at that end.
The new rc.net would contain this new additional case statement,
following the existing format:
128.128.92.*)
GATEWAY=$NET.92.1
BROADCAST=$NET.95.255
NETMASK=0xfffffc00
;;
I think that since the new tautog IP address is in place there, that new
info in my local rc.conf won't be lost in the event of a download, right?
So, to sum up, 2 things I need:
1. Change the scallop print server from tautog to quahog.
2. Put the gateway and broadcast changes for tautog in the master
rc.net and verify that the new IP address makes its way
into the master rc.conf at that end.
I promise I won't move another Athena thing again after this! ;-)
Sorry for all the trouble.
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Eric Cunningham - WHOI Athena Site Administrator
Desktop and Workstation Services Team
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 457-2000 x2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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