NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers
Using NPRINTER.EXE
Using NPRINTER.EXE
The NetWare port driver portion of NPRINTER.EXE for a DOS or
Windows workstation is a terminate-and-stay-resident program that can be
loaded either from the NPRINTER menu or from the command line.
Printing Tasks Handled through NPRINTER.EXE
Use the information in the following table to initiate NPRINTER tasks.
Table 6-1 NPRINTER.EXE Tasks
To get to the screen where you can Do the following
Load a printer configured as manual load or
type “Other/Unknown.”
1 Type NPRINTER <Enter>.
2 Select a print server then a printer, or press <F4>
and <Enter> to browse and select a printer.
3 Press <F1> for help from here.
Load port driver for printer P_1 for
organizational unit Sales in organization
ACME.
NPRINTER .P_1.SALES.ACME <Enter>
Load port driver for printer P_1 (logical
number 0) for print server PS-SALES
(NetWare 3 syntax).
NPRINTER PS-SALES 0 <Enter>
View the status of all loaded port drivers. NPRINTER /S <Enter>
Unload the port driver that was loaded last. NPRINTER /U <Enter>
View Help for the command line
NPRINTER.
NPRINTER /? <Enter>