[255] in installers
Re: Followup: concerns re: LPRSpooler and MINK interaction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Fri Oct 22 13:48:37 1999
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 13:48:15 -0400
To: Alicia Allen <rccsuper@mit.edu>, installers@mit.edu,
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From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Hey folks,
Anyone installing from this URL
http://web.mit.edu/installers/win.combined/
is installing very, VERY old stuff and will definitely have problems.
I'm not sure what the LPRspooler solution is, but here's where to find
other stuff
Kerberos for Windows (MinK) http://web.mit.edu/is/help/mink
HostExplorer http://web.mit.edu/pubs/ns-55
Eudora http://web.mit.edu/is/help/eudora
Brio http://web.mit.edu/is/help/brio/
This might help some, I hope.
Susan
>>
>>The installer retrieved from
>>http://web.mit.edu/installers/win.combined/LPRSpool/wlprinst.exe
>>which claims to be "WLPR Spooler Installation v1.0alpha" exhibits
>>the errors I mentioned during setup. As far as I know, it always
>>has... at least since Winter 1998.
>>
>>Setup type: express
>>Type of user: all
>>
>>Problems:
>>An error is had when printers are selected to be setup and you click ok.
>>The error is a dialog box titled: "Searching -- Error?"
>>And containing:
>> "Internal search error in installer -- remote setup files
>> might be skewed. Setup should still work. One of the
>> printers you chose may not be configured correctly. If
>> it doesn't, notify Information Services of this problem or
>> see the README or HELP files.
>>
>> Current: 'in'"
>>
>>When I clicked "OK" on that dialog box, another pops up that is identical
>>except the "Current: 'in'" is replaced by "Current: '1'". Then another box
>>came up that says "Current: 'in'". This was followed by "Current: '4'",
>>"Current: 'athena,'", "Current: 'in'", "Current: '20B'", and finally a box
>>indicating installation is complete and successful.
>>
>>From the clues I have to go on, I'd say that the installer is parsing a
>>file of printer data that it uses to configure the queues, and is somehow
>>getting off and thinking that the word 'in' and parts of the location
>>('20B' '4' and '1') are being mistaken as printer names. The three printers
>>I selected were "virus in 1-115" "pandora in 4-035" and "athena, in 20B-219".
>>Virus and Pandora were successfully installed and the queues worked properly.
>>Athena was not (but i think the printer is gone anyway), probably because of
>>the extra comma which comes after its name.
>>
>>Something else to note is that I just tested this on my machine, which had a
>>perfectly good, configured version of LPRspooler on it before I started.
>>After the installation, my queue definitions had been clobbered completely...
>>and it never asked whether that was okay.
>>
>>I also tried the "Dorm" choice (As opposed to "All") which did have a list of
>>dorm printers. I tested the "brick in Baker House" printer and got three of
>>the same skew errors, one for 'in', one for 'Baker' and one for 'House'.
>>The printer was entered as a queue, but the protocol was not set correctly
>>(it was set to "none" instead of KWLPR2.DLL), and the printer description
>>was blank. Using the "cluster" option does seem to set up the description
>>and the protocol correctly, but it also has the skew errors. Also the "
>>Cluster" and "All" printer lists seem to be identical rather than having
>>both Cluster and Dorm printers on the "All" list. It might be best to just
>>have one list since people might want to set up printers both in their
>>dorm and in a cluster.
>>
>>josh
>>
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