Mackie V7.0 manual Gateways to BSD spoolers

Gateways Interoperability

To configure a gateway, you must first define the host of the local Xprint V7.0 domain that is to be used as the gateway to the other printer spooler. For this purpose, you can use any host in the local Xprint V7.0 domain which has access to the physical connection to the target system. This host must be reliable, robust and fail-safe as the connection to the other printer spooler should always be available. First, a local gateway object is defined for this host.

The local gateway is responsible for the physical connection to the remote printer spooler. For every logical connection to a host in another spooler system it is also necessary to define what is called a partner gateway. The partner gateway is assigned to a local gateway and thus to a physical connection. Several partner gateways may be defined for access to several remote printer spoolers which all use the same local gateway. This however requires that all the remote printer spoolers be of the same type (e.g. BSD).

As soon as the connection between these two gateways has been defined and the local gateway has been activated, the connection can be used for printing.

However, in this case, printing is subject to specific restrictions which depend on the configuration of the partner gateway.

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To be able to successfully establish a gateway connection to a partner system, it is essential that you make some configurations on the partner system too:

–So that users can print on the remote system via the gateway, the remote system must grant the required permission.

–If users of the remote system are to print on the local Xprint V7.0 system, the local system must be declared there.

In any case these measures must be taken in accordance with the descriptions in the relevant system documentation.

If the other printer spoolers also are to access the local printers via the gateway, the partner gateway must additionally be registered as an allowed gateway at the local gateway. All allowed gateways allow the corresponding remote hosts access to the resources of the local Xprint V7.0 domain.

7.3.3Gateways to BSD spoolers

As with the fast filter bsd, configuring a gateway to a BSD spooler also allows users of the local Xprint V7.0 domain to access printers defined in the remote BSD spooler. Unlike jobs printed with bsd, print jobs printed via gateways can still be administered after submission.

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