TROY Group MAN-EXT2000 manual General Information

print server (the print server may be a physical device like a PC or a software NLM or VAP on the file server), which in turn sends it to the printer. This approach provides good performance, and has the advantage of not consuming a user slot on the file server.

A TROY XCD print server can also act as a NetWare print server (queue server) with an attached printer, which therefore eliminates the need for a dedicated PC print server or for an NLM or VAP on the file server. As shown in figure 5-2, this means that jobs from the client PC are spooled to the file server, which in turn spools the job directly to the TROY XCD print server. The advantage of this approach is higher performance, but it has the drawback of requiring a user slot on the file server.

Generally speaking, TROY XCD recommends that you use queue server mode instead of remote printer mode because the performance will be much higher. The exception to this recommendation is if you have a limited number of available user slots (for example, if you have a 5-user NetWare license and you have five active users).

TROY XCD print servers will work with NetWare Directory Services (NDS) or bindery emulation mode on NetWare 4.xx and later networks (not all TROY XCD print servers support NDS queue server mode; refer to chapter 2 for specific protocol support information).

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In order to use a TROY XCD print server on a NetWare network, one or more file servers must be configured with a

Novell Network Configuration 5-3