User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Using LAN Manager Basic
Managing a Shared Printer
NOTE: If you want to use your printer locally without disabling it, use the print command.
For example, type print myfile. At most, one print job from the server may print
before your job is printed.
Turning Off the Power
If you turn off your workstation or printer, any print jobs sent to the printer
will accumulate in the printer queue on the server. These jobs will start
printing when your workstation and printer are turned on again.
To disable the printer
• Type clispool /d or clipcach /d and press ENTER.
To enable the printer
• Type clispool /e or clipcach /e and press ENTER.
Using the Print Station Utility
When the LAN Manager Print Station utility is started on a workstation, the
workstation appears as a server to the network. This allows other users to
connect to the printer, as they would to any other network printer. However,
you cannot view the queue with the net view command.
In the default implementation of LAN Manager Print Station, print jobs are
written to a file on the host computer (the one running printsta) and then
sent to the printer. This process, called spooling, allows the person sending
the print job to regain control of his or her computer without waiting for the
job to print. If the disk space for temporary print files is not available, you
can load LAN Manager Print Station with spooling disabled.
Printing takes place as a background task on the host computer; the person
using that workstation is not interrupted by print jobs from other users.
The Netpopup or Winpopup utility sends messages to the host workstation
when the LAN Manager Print Station encounters errors such as “printer out
of paper.”
If you load Print Station in nonspooling mode, or if print jobs will be
spooled from workstations running OS/2, you should not have messages
sent to the host workstation. Loading Print Station in nonspooling mode
automatically disables Netpopup or Winpopup. If jobs will be spooled from
workstations running OS/2, disable Netpopup or Winpopup manually.