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Mac OS Printer Share Crashes

My home network connects four Macs together via a 10BASET connection. We have an older Apple Stylewriter 2400 driven by the Stylewriter 2500 driver with the desktop printing suite disabled (conflicts with the version of the Stylescript Postscript RIP that I sometimes use). The machine used as a print server is a PowerCenter Pro (64 Mb with RamDoubler 8 creating a virtual memory of 96 Mb) running OS 8.5.1 and attempts to use the Printer Share extension to share the printer to all Macs on the network. However, upon any attempt to print from a Mac other than the server, Printer Share crashes. I see the file attempt to spool, but then everything halts when the server gets a MacBug exception.I will probably go ahead and upgrade the print server to OS 8.6. The machines I attempted to print from are new iMacs running OS 9. I have also increased the memory allocation for Print Monitor. Still crashes. I am out of ideas here. Help!

Gadget_Guy

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I allocated my whole initial bucket of points on this one. Multiple machines on a network running different versions of the OS. I think this one possibly hard, but maybe there is some minor extension conflict messing up the whole thing. Everything else works great.

weed

Well it could be simply a MacsBug problem. Deinstall MacsBug and maybe your MacsBug exception will go away. Ive found that if i run MB on a Powerbook with os9 i get crashes all the time for weird stuff. But without it installed i run fine. Its worth a shot.

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