Shared Printers

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Fri May 24 07:10:58 AEST 1991


In article <91143.090125JIW2 at psuvm.psu.edu> JIW2 at psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
>  All of this recent discussion of printer sharing between VMS and
> Ultrix machines brings up a related problem of my own:  At our
> site, we have both a VAXstation 3100 and DECstation 3100, sharing
> a printer via LAT through a DECserver 200.  Our problem is that
> if the two machines try to print at the same time, one of the print
> jobs gets aborted.  In fact, if the Ultrix machine is in the midst
> of printing a file and someone submits a job from VMS, the Ultrix
> job is lost completely.  What's wrong with this picture?

Do you have the print queueing enabled on the server for that port?
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