NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up and Servicing Print Servers
Using Third-Party Network-Direct Print Devices with NetWare Services
Queue Server Mode
In this mode, the hardware print server directly accesses the print queue
using NetWare Core Protocol™ calls. In NetWare 3, this mode was faster
than remote printer mode, but the improved performance of the NetWare
Services PSERVER has minimized this distinction.
Queues created in the bindery context can be seen by both NetWare
Directory Services™ and bindery users, so both types of users can access
these hardware print servers.
Network-direct print devices developed before NetWare Services are
designed to work well with the NetWare bindery. When used in queue
service mode, some of these products present the following set of common
issues of concern to the network supervisor within a NetWare Services
environment.
• Some network-direct print devices and their installation programs are designed to
look in the bindery for network printing information. In order for these devices to
see binderies and queues, they must be in the same bindery context as these
printers and queues.
• The queue’s volume must be located on the same server as the queue.
• Queues serviced by network-direct printers must be created in the bindery
context where the queue server is defined. The bindery context tells the NetWare
server which Directory Services objects should be visible as bindery information.
• Queue users should be in the same bindery context as the queue.
• In NetWare 3, print server configuration files for bindery printers are located in
the SYS:SYSTEM directory. In NetWare Services, these files have been replaced
by attributes of the print server. Because most network-direct print devices are
designed to access information from the bindery and are not Directory Services
aware, you must create print device configurations in the bindery emulation mode
of PCONSOLE in order for the configuration files these devices require to be
created.
• Some of these direct-connect devices need to be configured within the 16 printer
limitation for NetWare 3 print servers.
When using these devices in remote printer mode, you should reserve printer
numbers 0-15 for them.
• NetWare 3 created the group EVERYONE by default. Some of the network-