WINDOWS 2000

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OUR SETUP WAS A WINDOWS NT DOMAIN AND A UNIX SERVER. OUR UNIX SERVER IS ACCESSED THROUGH TERMINAL EMULATORS. WE HAVE UNIX PRINTERS ASSIGNED TO SPECIFIC WIN 98 MACHINES.

LAST WEEK, WE INSTALLED A NEW WINDOWS 2000 SERVER AND CHANGED THE DOMAIN NAME. NOW WE CANNOT PRINT OUT OF UNIX. WE ARE NOT USING PRINT SERVERS OR ANYTHING OUT OF THE 2000 SERVER. THE SETTINGS ON THE CLIENT COMPUTERS DID NOT CHANGE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DOMAIN NAME.

ANY IDEA WHY WE CANNOT PRINT?

 

[stanhubble]

How are you relsolving IP->hostname ?

How were you determining which win 98 machine is which?

 

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As far as I know, the printers are setup by computer name. For example Printer04 is setup on BSmith. We only have to keep the computer name the same as far as the printer is concerned.

The user is in the emulator, chooses the print program they want to run and then tell it what printer to use, ie 4,7,3, etc...

We have been unable to print since Friday afternoon and they only changes we have made are to the domain name. However, when I change a computer back to the old domain name, it will not print now either.


HELP!!!!

Thanks so much.

Brandy

 

[stanhubble]

ok so everything is controlled by machine name.

This machine name has to be resolved into an ip address somehow. On the unix machine what is in /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/printcap.

Also what is the output of `hostname`
You may need to redefine the domain to the unix system.