Wesley Setree wrote:

> I set up roughly 2 - 5 network printers every week and have not had any problems with the device being spooled out immediately after a doionow. One potential problem might be that the printer or external jet direct card would have to be power cycled if it was turned on before the doionow. I would be interested in hearing any comments or concerns that the support group has told you.

given the public and private responses....i'd say it's almost a hit-or-miss kind of thing.  sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Doug Werth wrote:

> Did you make your entry into NPCONFIG before your DOIONOW? If not then
> chances are IOCONFIG did try to start a spooler, but the spooler immediately
> stopped because it could not find the correct NPCONFIG entry.

for what we're doing -- yes, npconfig is already on the system and properly configured.  if an error is occuring, i'm not being told about it <sigh>

Rick Clark wrote:

> I've always used IOCONFIG to add my network printers and had to do a
> STARTSPOOL upon completion of configuration. If adding a printer to the
> NPCONFIG file prior to the configuration then a STARTSPOOL is not required.
> I do believe the IOCONFIG uses the DOIONOW to make the changes immediately.
>
> From the November 1998 HP3000 Advisor.....
>
> "Lan connected, TCP/IP printers can be easily added and removed with
> IOCONFIG. To use a network printer, it must have a valid entry in the
> network printer configuration file, NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS. If the entry is valid,
> the add device (ad) command in IOCONFIG automatically will start up a
> spooler process for the printer. If the entry is not valid, the spooler
> startup will fail, but the printer configuration will remain. The printer
> entry can be added later to NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS and the ldev's spooler process
> can be started manually."

this is strange....why would ioconfig fail to completely spool the printer and yet two seconds later you can type in 'startspool' (or spooler...;start) and have it work with no problem?       - d

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