[226] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: 3160 Ethernet Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Tue May 16 13:58:53 2000
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:03:18 -0400
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>, Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>,
printdel@MIT.EDU
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: franx@mitvma.MIT.EDU
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Fran and team,
this is confirmation of a verbal response I gave to Fran on Friday to leave
the hostname as it is for the time being.
Lynne
At 08:11 PM 5/11/00 -0400, Lynne E. Durland wrote:
>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
> >
Lynne E. Durland
Information Systems
Database Services
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258-5857
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