NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers
Using Nprinter Daemon
If both parameters are at the default value, NPRINTER waits 100 seconds
before doing a status check.
Error_Before_Inform
Prevents the scrolling of error messages that occur in rapid succession. The
first occurrence of a message is always displayed. This parameter sets the
maximum number of times NPRINTER skips displaying the second or
subsequent occurrence of an error message for a particular printer while the
printer is in a given state.
Warn_Before_Inform
Prevents the scrolling of warning messages that occur in rapid succession.
The parameter sets the maximum number of times NPRINTER skips
displaying the second or subsequent occurrence of a warning message for a
particular printer while the printer is in a given state.
Adding a Printer Entry
Procedure
1 Edit the PRTConfig file.
The PRTConfig file has the following format. Syntax examples are provided
within the file itself.
a On a new line under the “hq” column, type “hq”.
b Under the “printer_name” column, type the name of the printer.
This can be any identifying name. It is used as a tag to identify the printer in
both the PRTConfig file and the RPControl file, so it must be the same name
in both files.
c Under the “host_queue_name” column, type in the name of the UNIX printer
that you want the NetWare print jobs to be sent to.
d Under the “priority column,” type in the UNIX print system priority level of
the print jobs that NPRINTER will submit.
#hq printer_name host_queue_name priority [form_name]
hq hp lp 1
hq lw_apple lp1 1 purple