LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.15 with Microsoft Windows Active Directory Server Administrator's Guide (edition 8)

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5 LDAP Printer Configurator Support
This chapter contains information describing how LDAP-UX supports the printer configurator,
and how to configure the printer configurator to control its behaviors.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Overview (page 73).
How the LDAP Printer Configurator works (page 74).
Printer Configuration Parameters (page 76).
Printer Schema and Attributes (page 76).
Managing the LP printer configuration (page 78).
Limitations of Printer Configurator (page 79).
Overview
Management of network printing is complex, and printers themselves are more complicated.
Instead of having printer configuration and information scattered over client systems and printer
servers, they can be stored and managed from a single repository. LDAP is suited to build a
backend printer configuration database. LDAP-UX enables the centralized management of
printers, and the printer entries can easily be distributed to clients to reduce concerns about
synchronization of configuration information. LDAP-UX comes with a printer configurator to
consolidate printer configuration and control of printer devices into the LDAP Directory Server
for a central location of printer management.
Definitions
Printer Services
HP-UX provides Line Printer Spooling System (LP spooler) to manage printers and print services
requests. LP spooler is a set of programs, shell scripts, and directories that control your printers
and the flow of data going to them. The LP spooler programs consist of commands such as
lpadmin, rlpdaemon programs, and lp command.
Printing Protocol
The LP spooler system has built-in support for sending jobs to other hosts that running
rlpdaemon. rlpdaemon is a line printer daemon (LPD) for handling remote spool requests.
This feaure enables the user to install a printer on one host and make it accessible from other
hosts. It also works with printers/printservers that have network interfaces that support the LDP
protocol. The LPD network printing protocol is the widely used network printing protocol in
the UNIX world.
LP Printer types
The LP spooler supports the following three types of printers:
A network printer which is a printer connected to a network interface or printserver.
A remote printer is a printer configured on a system other than the one you are logged into
when you submit a print request.
A local printer which is a printer that is directly connected to your system.
NOTE: The LDAP printer configurator only supports the HP LP spooler system, remote printers,
network printers and printerservers that support Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol. It does
not support local printers.
Overview 73