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

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Printer Configuration Parameters
The LDAP-UX Client Services provides four printer configuration parameters, start,
search_interval, max_printers and lpadmin_option available for you to customize
and control the behaviors of the printer configurator. These parameters are defined in the
ldapclientd.conf file. See the “ldapcliend.conf Configuration File” section in the Chapter 7
(page 91) for details.
Printer Schema and Attributes
The Windows 2000, 2003 or 2003 R2 Active Directory Server (ADS) contains the built-in printer
schema. The printer schema is used to create the printer objects that are relevant to the printer
configurator services. The attributes of this schema are not the same ones supported by the
LDAP-UX printer configurator. This section describes how to use the Windows ADS built-in
schema to manage the networked printers.
Printer Attributes
With the printer schema in the Windows Active Directory Server, you are able to create printer
objects for the LP printer configuration. The minimum information for a printer object entry is
the local printer name, remote host name, and the remote printer name. The remote host name
is the system or device that the remote printer is connected to. The remote host name must be
the fully qualified name.
Default Printer Attributes
LDAP-UX supports the following two default printer attributes:
printer-name Defines information of local printer name.
printer-uri Defines the remote host name and the remote printer name information.
Printer Attribute Mappings
The printer-name and printer-uri attributes are not defined in the Windows Active
Directory Server schema. You must use one of the following two methods to define the alternate
attributes and map them to default printer attributes respectively.
Defining Alternate Printer Attributes
You can define alternate printer attributes which can be remapped to printer-name and
printer-uri, and use the ldapentry or ldapmodify tool to add the alternate printer attributes
to your directory server. For example, you can define two alternate printer attributes,
printerbyname and printer-resource, and map these attributes to printer-name and
printer-uri respectively as shown in Table 5–1.
Table 5-1 Attribute Mappings
Alternate Printer AttributeDefault Printer Attribute
printerbynameprinter-name
printer-resourceprinter-uri
The printerbyname attribute provides local printer name information and the
printer-resource attribute specifies the remote host name and remote printer name. The
following shows examples of the printerbyname and printer-resource attribute values:
printerbyname: laser2
printer-resource: lpd://hostA.hp.com/lj2004
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