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By network printers do you mean they are setup as "remote printers" in SCO with entries in /etc/printcap? If so, check your hosts file and make sure you have the IP addresses correct for each printer. Some print servers only use the IP and although you may have changed the logical...

I happen to be on JP Radley's SCO site and found another solution I have never tried, but it sounds reasonable. His site is: <A HREF="http://staff.ussinc.com/~steved/scofaq/scotec0.html" TARGET="_new">http://staff.ussinc.com/~steved/scofaq/scotec0.html</A><br> There is some other good stuff...

I have a Compaq Armada 1580 DMT with a Xircom RBE 10/100 NIC. The card works fine in windows, and on other laptops running sco, but not on the Compaq. I can ping and telnet without any problem, but as soon as I ftp somewhere, the laptop locks up - keyboard does not respond at all, until I...

I have an IBM thinkpad with 5.05 loaded and the text window takes up about 2/3 of the screen. The X window looks great and takes the full screen, but normal shell logins use only a portion. Is there a way to increase the font size for text windows on the console? mkdev graphic has no effect...

If you set up the printer as a &quot;remote&quot; printer, there is no interface file. SCO expects the server that it's connecting to do have the interface file. I have had a lot of trouble with the Jetdirect's and finally sent them back and bought the Kingston for 1/2 the price. Trendnet...

In the old days, before shadow passwords and C3 security - you could boot from<br> your emergency boot floppy, mount the hard disk, and either restore /etc/passwd<br> from a backup, or simply edit it and remove the root password. When booting<br> from the floppy you have full su rights so you...