problem with printers in Openserver 5.0.5

[Nostradamus]

Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes before SCO prints the document/s. It normally takes <5 sec. Scoadmin lists the status &quot;printing&quot; on the document. This has happened on axis printservers*/ as well as HP printers with built-in NIC. restarting print service doesn´t work. If I leave it alone for an afternoon everything works fine.
ideas anyone?

I´ve encountered some other problems as well. I´ll post them the next time they appear so you can examine error messages and logs.

*/ We use several axis printservers (axis 560,5600) in our organization.
We use the script that axis deliver (axinstall, latest version) to add the que in unix. Nostradamus

 

[edfair]

Network printing from SCO isn't one of my things. But the exact same symptoms occur in w95/w98 when NICs have difficulty in communicating. Have had print jobs and file transfer jobs hang from seconds to hours when the failure occurs. Opens on both ends, hangs, then all of a sudden transfers completely, and closes. I now insure that the NICs in any network I support have same card, or same mfgr., or matched as close as I can by testing. You might also look into some network diagnostics to see what is happening. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[Nostradamus]

I don´t think the network is to blame. I can ping the print server as well as configuring it´s built-in webserver (when the jobs won´t print). The monitoring I did on our Cisco switches showed nothing out of the ordinary.

We´ve also experienced the difficulty in having different NIC:s. We mainly use 3com now, but I wonder if we don´t use the built-in NIC on the server. That´s a Intel card, which seems to work all right.

The problem occoured yesterday afternoon again. It didn´t get any better with waiting as it usually does.

I don´t know if this helped you understand the problem any better but any help at all would be thankful. Nostradamus