NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers

Using NPRINTER.EXE

Running Port Drivers from Local Drives

If you want to avoid logging in to the network before running

NPRINTER.EXE, it is possible to run the program from a local drive.

However, to ensure the proper execution of the program, you must copy all

associated ﬁles to the same directory as the one containing the executable

ﬁle on your local drive.

Running Port Drivers on DOS or Windows Workstations

The NetWare port driver portion of NPRINTER.EXE for a DOS or

MS Windows workstation is a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) program

that can be loaded either from the NPRINTER menu or from the command

line.

NPRINTER.EXE can run any printer conﬁgured in NetWare Administrator,

or PCONSOLE as “Manual Load.”

NOTE: Each loaded NPRINTER.EXE occupies 2 KB more of workstation RAM than the

buffer size defined for that printer. Buffer sizes can be set in PCONSOLE, or

NetWare Administrator, or at the command line. You can load NPRINTER.EXE up

to seven times per workstation.

Buffer sizes can also be changed in PCONSOLE and NetWare Administrator.

NPRINTER options loaded from the command line override these configuration

settings.

Loading Port Drivers on MS Windows Workstations

If your workstation uses Windows 3.0 or 3.1, you must load

NPRINTER.EXE before you load Windows and you must use one of the

following options:

• In PCONSOLE or NetWare Administrator, configure the printers to use polled

mode instead of a specific interrupt number. (After selecting a printer, select the

printer type at the “Printer Configuration” screen and then select “Interrupt:

None” at the “Configuration” field.)

• If you want to use a specific interrupt, place the following lines in the Windows

SYSTEM.INI file under the heading “[386Enh]”:

LPT1AutoAssign=0

LPT1irq=-1