Precedence Network Computer and NetManager
Frequently Asked Questions and hints

Current NetManager CD Build is P3

1. How do I get my NC to print over LanManFS to an NT server?
2. How do I speed up printing to the NetManager from the NCs?
3. When printing over NFS, my HP laser printer with JetDirect card always prints an extra page containing details about the print job
4. How do I get printer icons on the iconbar so I can switch between a number of printers?
5. I get the error "Printer '<Printer-Name>' not installed - no definition data for it" when installing multiple printer configurations
6. Printing seems to have got stuck and jobs are building up in the queue.

1. How do I alter the screen mode (e.g. colour depth) on the NCs?
2. How do I use an NC with a TV?
3. How do I get the NC to blank the screen after a certain time?

1. I want a shared read-only area for clip art, etc.
2. Can I restrict which clients can access web-pages via the proxy?
3. How do I define my own icons for use on the icon bar when in RISCOS?
4. How do I edit webpages including the login page and the general home page?
5. I'd like the NCs to go to RISCOS or NCWorks as soon as I login.
6. I want the NCs to use different login screens.
7. How do users create and access public home pages (NEW! From NT as well)?
8. When in RISCOS, how do I display the user's name on the iconbar instead of Home area?

1. How can I print out the on-line help from NCWorks?
2. Is there a quick way to switch between NCWorks documents?

1. When I alter web-pages and try to reload from the NC they don't change
2. I'm using an ISP that forces me to use their web cache/proxy if I want http access (e.g. Edex). How can I use the auto-hotfix command?
3. I want to set up a password protected set of web pages
4. How do I set the date or time on my NetManager or NetManager?

1. Do NCs have a serial port?
2. How about 100BaseT?
3. What upgrade routes are there from certain builds?
4. What documentation is there on the NetManager?
5. What's the difference between build 31 and 32?
6. Are NCs cool?

1. The NetManager is complaining about root device full
2. I'm getting errors about "cannot allocate L1 page tables."
3. I log in as root at the login screen and it just returns to the login screen again.
4. All the system users seem to have disappeared
5. When I reboot my NetManager it appears to hang after it's printed "apache" during the start up

1. When the NCs boot I get the error, 'The Network Computer cannot display the web page you have selected'
2. Whenever the NC boots it starts up Zap with a configuration file in it.
3. When users log in they get the error ".Choices not found"
4. Insufficient access and locked directories.
5. I'm getting errors about "cannot fix pointer" when the NC boots

1. How do I get my NC to log onto an NT server for its users areas?
2. How do I configure the web-based password changing to change passwords on an NT server?
3. Why are you using a UNIX-based operating system rather than NT?
4. How do I get ICA to automatically login?
5. When logging onto a user area held on NT, I get the error, "Cannot perform operation."
6. When logging onto a user area held on NT, I get the error, "Error from server."
7. How can I get my Terminal Servers to automatically reboot every night?

1. I get 'The Account is not authorised to login from this station' or I'm being asked to specify a password for a share called IPC$ when I try and connect a network drive from NT or Windows 2000 to the NetManager.
2. I'm still being asked for a password for IPC$ or being denied access for some users
3. I get an 'Incorrect password' error for some users when logging on with LanManFS
4. How do I use a PC with the NetManager acting as a file server?
5. How do I use a Mac with the NetManager acting as a file server?
6. How do I get Mac clients to access a shared read-only area on the NetManager?
7. Appletalk on the NetManager dies with an 'addmulti:' error
8. I'm using Terminal Server and while the first user has the correct personal access rights, subsequent users do not.
9. I'd like a shared area that all PC clients can write to.
10. I want to use Windows to edit the webpages on the NetManager.

1. How do I use groups on the NetManager?
2. How do I use the addusers script?
3. I get a memory exhausted error when using delusers
4. All the system users seem to have disappeared

1. How do I configure distribution lists (a.k.a. groups, mailing lists) and mail aliases?
2. How do I configure content censorship on mail being sent?
3. I'd like to check all the mailboxes against the list of censored words.
4. How do I send a mail to multiple people with the web-based email?
5. How do I delete sections of text when composing or replying to emails?
6. Not all users seem to be receiving mail even though I know they've been sent it. When I examine the user, it says they have new mail, but they can't read it.
7. I've got a lot of email, my filesystems seem to be full and mail isn't be received any more. Help!
8. I'm sending email from another machine on the network and I'm getting "550 Relaying denied" errors.
9. Someone sent me a large attachment and now I can't read my email any more. Or, I'm trying to send an enormous attachment and it's saying "transport not available"
10. When I get sent attachments using the new web-based mail of things like TextEase files, I get "The Network Computer is unable to play this Data file" when I try to access it.
11. When I try to send attachments, I get weird errors from the browser (such as the connection was reset or the server returned an invalid response).
12. I want to delete all the emails in a mailbox without having to delete them all individually.
13. My mail package (Marcel, Outlook Express or Eudora) is listing all the files in my home directory when I try to list all my mail folders.
14. When I try and send a large attachment with the new webmail, I get the error "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted"
    or
    When I try and read a large attachment, I get an error saying the webpage cannot be displayed or returned no data.
15. How can I block email from certain email addresses?

1. I've got to use PAP to authenticate with my ISP (e.g. ISDN to Demon).
2. I want to block access to certain URLs.
3. I want to customize the error messages from the webserver/proxy (e.g. when URLs are blocked)
4. I've got a Pace ISDN Professional Terminal Adaptor and it doesn't work with BTInternet