NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

6-2
Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers
Overview
Overview
This chapter explains how to use Hewlett Packard network printer software.
Most network printers require a software program called a port driver to
print network print jobs. NetWare Services provides two types of port
drivers: NPRINTER.EXE and the NPRINTER daemon. Network printers
attached to DOS, Windows, Win 95 or NT client workstations require
NPRINTER.EXE running on the workstation. Remote network printers
attached to HP-UX servers rely on the NPRINTER daemon.
A NetWare Services environment could include printers cabled in any of the
following ways:
• To a DOS, Windows, Win 95, or NT workstation (NPRINTER.EXE). For
standard systems, you can attach up to 3 parallel and 4 serial printers to a
workstation.
• To a NetWare Services server (NPRINTER daemon). Since NPRINTER daemon
directs NetWare print jobs into the UNIX LP print system, the cabling
configuration is determined by the LP print system. Nprinter daemon can support
up to 50 printers.
• To a native NetWare server (NPRINTER.NLM). This configuration requires a
native NetWare server in your systems environment. You must load
NPRINTER.NLM once for every printer running directly off a NetWare server.
Refer to the native NetWare documentation for specific information about
NLMs.
• Directly to the network cabling. See “Using Third-Party Network-Direct Print
Devices with NetWare Services” option in Chapter 6.