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Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0 Rules for configuring the system

servers and for receiving jobs sent from partner systems. Gateways of the type PARTNER represent remote spooler clients as possible job originators for Xprint V7.0 resources or print service providers.

Notes on the configuration

–Every gateway of the type PARTNER which supports a print protocol must have at least a gateway of the type LOCAL with the same print protocol assigned in the backward-link list (-bloption). This list is required for finding a local gateway which is capable of sending jobs to this partner.

–Every BSD print server must be represented by a BSD gateway of the type PARTNER. The BSD server can also be accessed via the fast filter bsd. The advantage of the fast filter is that Xprint V7.0 converts the data. Gateways, on the other hand, provide additional functions:

–you can find out the status of jobs you have sent to a BSD server.

–you can remove jobs you have sent to the BSD spooler system from that system.

–you can display the status of the BSD print queue.

It therefore makes sense to use fast filters for sending print jobs to a BSD system; however, if you want to have access to the full BSD functionality, you must use gateways. This only works if the local BSD gateway is defined on the host of the printer that uses the fast filter bsd.

–Every BSD user should be represented by a BSD gateway of the type PARTNER. Furthermore, the gateway of the type LOCAL which receives the BSD jobs must allow the spoolin of jobs from this partner. This means the -agoption must be set to ALL for the local gateway or the name of the gateway of the type PARTNER must be specified directly.

–Every Xprint V7.0 or DPRINT domain from which jobs can be submitted for the local domain must be represented by a gateway of the type GIP2 PARTNER. Furthermore, the local gateway which receives a GIP2 job must allow the spoolin of jobs from this partner. This means the -agoption must be set to ALL for the local gateway or the name of the gateway of the type GIP2 PARTNER must be entered specifically.

–No two gateways of the type LOCAL with the same port number (-ga) can run on one host at any one time. This is prevented by the network.

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