NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers
Troubleshooting Tips for Administering Printer Stations
Either change to polled mode or change the board settings to avoid the
conflict.
Print Jobs are Ruined When Printing Locally
A print job on a printer may be ruined if the user on the station to which the
printer is physically attached does not have a CAPTURE invoked and
attempts to print locally. To prevent this, capture LPT1 on this workstation
so that NetWare handles the job.
Another method is to reverse the “Private” and “Shared” printer options so
that the printer is designated as “Private.” This can be done at the print
server console from the “Printer Control” option window or from the PSC
command line utility.
PSC provides the quickest way to do this. Issue the PSC “Private” (PRI)
command from the DOS prompt. You can then issue the PSC “Shared”
(SHA) command to reverse the status for shared network printing again.
NPRINTER Cannot Reconnect to Print Server that was Downed and
Loaded on Different NetWare Server
If you bring down PSERVER and bring it up on a different NetWare server
from the one it was originally loaded on, port drivers that were connected to
that print server initially lose their connection.
When NPRINTER is connected to PSERVER, the port driver stores the
network address of the NetWare server where the print server was loaded. If
the print server is then loaded on a different NetWare server, the port driver
cannot attach to the print server again unless it is reattached to the new
server running the print server.
If you do not reattach the port driver, and later reload the print server on the
original NetWare server, the port driver will connect as before because the
network address of the NetWare server and the information stored by the
port driver once again match.
Port Driver Status is “Waiting for Job” But Printer is Not Attached
The port driver (NPRINTER) status for a defined but unattached serial
printer is “Waiting for job” even though the printer is not attached, and the
printer status is “Running.” If a print job is put into the queue for this printer,
the port driver status changes to “Ready (Waiting for printer)” or “Printing
job” but the printer status changes to “Offline.”