NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers
Using Nprinter Daemon
This field is platform specific. If the platform differs from the reference
platform, modifications to NPRINTER may be necessary.
form_name
Identifies the form name to be used with this print queue. It is platform
specific. This field can be left blank.
The information in the PRTConfig file is not updated dynamically. You can
have multiple entries in this file which define different forms or priorities for
the same “host_queue_name.” Each entry must be given a unique printer
name.
RPControl File Parameters
The RPControl file contains the remote printer assignments. This file should
be platform independent. This file ties the printer number with the printer
configuration information in the PRTConfig file.
This file is configurable with a text editor. Be aware that the # symbol marks
a heading (or comment line) and the characters rp mark the beginning of an
entry.
The RPControl file has the following format:
print_server_name
Identifies the print server that NPRINTER attaches the printer defined in this
file to. The NPRINTER daemon does not validate the print server name
when the name is entered into the file. It validates the name when it tries to
initialize the printer.
During the initialization, NPRINTER sends out a SAP packet to find the
print server’s address. If the print server name is not in the SAP agent’s
table, NPRINTER cannot initialize the printer. There are two main reasons
for a print server’s name not being in the SAP agent’s table:
• The print server is down and, therefore, is not advertising its presence on the
#rp print_server_name printer_slot printer_name
rp PS-LOGAN 0 hp
rp PS-ARES 8 lw_apple