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Creating/Conﬁguring Supervisors and Physical Printers

5 Creating/Conﬁguring

Supervisors and Physical

Printers

The procedures in this chapter describe how to complete initial

conﬁguration activities for HPDPS supervisors and the physical printers

they control, using the command line interface.

The supervisor is a server that runs under HP-UX and manages the

printing process. The supervisor manages and controls physical printers,

which you conﬁgure to represent your printer devices. You install the

HPDPS supervisor on the system to which the printer devices are locally

attached, either serially or parallel. A network printer can be managed

by any supervisor.

NOTE In the DCE Extended Environment, you must have DCE read, write, and

delete permissions for the supervisor to use the pdcreate command as

described in this chapter. You must have DCE read and write

permissions for the objects to use the pdset and pdenable commands.

See Chapter 8, “Managing DCE Security for HPDPS”, for further

information.

In the Basic Environment, you must be logged in as root to perform these

tasks. For more information, see “The Basic Environment” in Chapter 1.