[41619] in Hotline Meeting
Re: [Fwd: New Printer for Athena at WHOI]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jan 27 19:37:07 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Cunningham <ecunningham@whoi.edu>
Cc: op@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:07:54 EST."
<34C906AA.9EBCC42C@whoi.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:37:02 EST
Hi Eric, I sorry it's taken us so long to get back to you.
> 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?
I don't know that they are really newer versions of the HP4s, but they
will work with Athena, provided they have a JetDirect card (yes, you
will need a JetDirect card)
> 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
I belive that in addition to being a printserver, tautog also
functions as a bootp server for scallop. I assume you'd want to do
something similar with the other new printserver.
> 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".
This is easy to do, once the new printer exists.
> Woods Hole Village:
> -------------------
> quahog 128.128.92.175; Sparc 5; Solaris 2.4; Athena Workstation
> (SUN4m) Version 8.0L; Bigelow 213; proposed print server
> for new printer
This machine will need to be updated to 8.1 before it can become a
printserver. OTOH, it's probably a good idea to get all of your
machines updated to 8.1.
Hey Mike or Dan, have you kept track of things to watch out for while
updating WHOI machines? I suspect this may me the trickiest part of
the whole process of getting a new printer, and hopefully it won't be
too bad.
Jonathon
