NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers

Using Nprinter Daemon

The NPRINTER daemon is a UNIX process that allows printers deﬁned

through the UNIX print system to service the print server. It can be loaded

on any UNIX machine.

Unlike NPRINTER.EXE, the NPRINTER daemon does not contain its own

port driver, but relies instead on the UNIX print system for conﬁguring and

maintaining the actual printer information. The NPRINTER daemon can

only be loaded once on a machine, but can service up to 50 separate printers.

You can set up the NPRINTER daemon by using the System Administration

Manager (SAM). Refer to the NetWare 4.1/9000 Installation and

Administration Guide for information about setting up nprinter

conﬁguration ﬁles.

For advanced UNIX users, the following sections explain how to conﬁgure

and run NPRINTER from the UNIX command line.

Configuring the NPRINTER Daemon (Advanced UNIX Users)

The NPRINTER conﬁguration ﬁles PRTConﬁg, RPControl, and RPConﬁg

provide the necessary information to the NPRINTER daemon for attaching

the speciﬁc print server to the speciﬁed UNIX printer. These ﬁles can be set

up or modiﬁed using SAM.

The PRTConﬁg ﬁle and the RPControl ﬁle must be conﬁgured for your

speciﬁc environment. The defaults in the RPConﬁg ﬁle are adequate for

most environments, but can be ﬁne tuned if necessary.

NOTE: The RPConfig file contains run-time configuration parameters for NPRINTER.

These parameters control items like the time interval between status checks and how

many tries should be made before logging an error or a warning.

These ﬁles are by default located in the /etc/netware4/nprinter path on the

NetWare Services server. The NPRINTER daemon polls these ﬁles, so you

can add and delete printers while NPRINTER is running.