User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

Using Shared Printers

Managing a Shared Printer

job and other jobs from printing. For example, if you have a shared printer at-

tached to the LPT1 (or PRN) port on your workstation, link to the printer queue

(or to other shared printer queues) using LPT2 or another port ID.

• If you must use your printer locally, use the MS-DOS print command, or disable

the printer as a network resource and use it locally. For more information about

the MS-DOS print command, see your MS-DOS manual. For information on

disabling the printer, see “Disabling and Enabling the Printer,” later in this sec-

tion.

Administrator’s Responsibilities

Your administrator is often responsible for connecting the shared printer to

your computer and ensuring that the appropriate LAN Manager Spooler

Agent software is automatically loaded on your workstation. LAN Manager

supports three workstation print spooling programs:

• The LAN Manager Print Station utility (printsta command) shares a worksta-

tion’s printer with one other workstation at a time, without involvement of a serv-

er.

• The LAN Manager Clispool program (the clispool command) supports the print

spooler (the print command) that comes with MS-DOS. This program is only

available if you have a LAN Manager for UNIX Systems server on your network.

• The LAN Manager Clipcach program (the clipcach command) supports the print

spooler that comes with LaserTools™ PrintCache™ version 2.4a. This program

is only available if you have a LAN Manager for UNIX Systems server on your

network.

NOTE: LaserTools PrintCache must be purchased separately.

The Clispool and Clipcach programs receive print jobs sent through the

server from workstations and pass them to the appropriate print spooling

program for printing. For more information about the clispool and clipcach

commands, see Chapter 5, “Enhanced Reference.” For more information

about the LaserTools PrintCache software, see the LaserTools PrintCache

manual.

With clispool and clipcach your administrator is also responsible for

maintaining the printer queue (including such tasks as deleting jobs from

other users) and for setting printer parameters.