In article <[log in to unmask]>, Al Ankers
<[log in to unmask]> writes

>Short system synopsis: HP3000/947 running avg.25 sessions and 4 jobs,
>HP3000/Novell 3.11 on HP3K with 50+ PCs on Openview network 802.3 with
Jetdirect
>connected printers. ISDN used to connect remote DTC and 3 Hubs. All PCs use
>Windows for workgroup 3.11 and access the HP3K via MS92 or Reflection 1.
>
>Situation: Purchased HP Vectra PC XU 6/150 w/Windows NT 4.0
>
>lo and behold I can't get it to print to my network connected HP Laserjet 4Si
>w/Jetdirect, so I called HP. Guess what! They know about the problem! Not to
get
>too technical, but under NT or Windows/95 any Netware queued printer gets
messed
>up.

>HP solution: DO NOT INSTALL 5.5
>
>Al Ankers

We had this with MPE 5.0 and Netware/iX when I hooked up a WIN95
machine. Workaround was to go to the printer via JetAdmin 'directly',
bypassing the Netware queues. Worked fine on the low-volume printer in
question, don't know if it would cause contention, or grief over queue-
jumping, on a busier one.

Apparently, WIN95 was setting a bit in the header packet(s) which WIN
3.x didn't. 'Real' Netware doesn't care, but Portable Netware was trying
to act differently because of it, and hurting itself.

Anyway, HP fixed the problem. We tried it and it works, (though I still
use 'direct' because you can't stop banners being printed via Netware).

But are you saying that the problem has come back in 5.5, and this time
HP say it can't be fixed?
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