[221] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: 3160 Ethernet Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Fri May 12 09:45:53 2000
Resent-From: "Francis X. McLaughlin" <FRANX@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Resent-To: Print team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 20:11:45 -0400
To: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>, printdel@MIT.EDU
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: franx@mitvma.MIT.EDU
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Ok, now what does the team want me to do with the 3160 printer name,
leave it as is or change it to the name Rocklyn suggested???
Fran
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Mike,
I think that the SAP folks are trying to keep printer host name and queue
name the same to reduce confustion. When I set up the printers for the
database group two years ago we had to rename the printer in room 117 3
times to get it right and the host name ended up ds-2.
Lynne
At 05:28 PM 5/11/00 -0400, Mike Whitson wrote:
>> The reason the printers name was chosen as E191.MIT.EDU was due to
>> the fact that it will also be used by SAP. As far as we know an SAP
>> printer can only have a four character node name. We will hold off
>> changing anything for the time being until we hear different from
>> you.
>
>That is incorrect. An SAP printer can have whatever hostname it
>wants. It's the *queue* name that has to be four characters or fewer.
>But there's nothing stopping you from setting up the queue "long"
>to point to the printer this-is-a-really-long-hostname.mit.edu.
>
>-mike
>
