NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Managing Print Services with the NetWare Administrator Utility

Setting Up Print Services with NetWare Administrator

This section describes how to set up a basic printing environment using the

NetWare Administrator graphical utility.

Procedure

1 Connect printers to the network in any of the following ways:

• To the network cable (network-attached printers)

• To the parallel or serial port of a workstation

• To the parallel or serial port of a NetWare server

2 Enter NetWare Administrator and select the container object that you want to

create printing objects in.

The following steps use the Organizational Unit “Sales” under Organization

“Novell.” After completing these steps, the printing objects appear in the

NetWare Administrator browser.

Creating Print Queues

The following procedure lets you create a Print Queue object to represent a

physical print queue on the NetWare server.

You must have a print queue, along with a print server and a printer, in order

for network users to share printers.

Procedure

1 From the browser’s “Object” menu for the Organization or Organizational unit,

choose “Create.”

The “New Object” dialog appears similar to that shown in the following ﬁgure.