Minolta PI4700E Configuring NetWare Enterprise Print Services Ndps, Creating Ndps Manager

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NetWare configuration

Configuring NetWare Enterprise Print Services (NDPS)

NetWare Enterprise Print Services is a Novell software solution built on the Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS) architecture. NDPS is an ad- vanced printing architecture that can be run on either an IPX or an IP net- work. NDPS over IP is the native printing approach for NetWare 5.x systems.

NDPS is not yet implemented on printer resident print servers. Instead, a NetWare server includes a gateway that translates between NDPS and a printer-supported protocol or protocols. Gateways exist for PSERVER on IPX, for LPD, and for raw binary sockets printing on IP. Some gateways support NDPS configuration and status information capabilities using SN- MP.

The following sections describe the NDPS configuration using Novell-sup- plied gateways. For networks running NDS over IPX, the gateways use the NetWare PSERVER function implemented on the printer Network Cards. For networks using IP, the Novell-supplied gateway uses the print- er LPD capability. Novell is developing an NDPS gateway for printers im- plementing the IPP protocol; update information on how to set this up will be provided when the capability is released and verified with these print- ers.

Creating NDPS Manager

An NDPS Manager provides a platform for Printer Agents that reside on the server. An NDPS Manager must be created as an object in the NDS tree before you can create server-based Printer Agents. This procedure is necessary regardless of the gateway or underlying network protocol used.

To create an NDPS Manager object

1In NetWare Administrator, select the container where you want the NDPS Manager object to reside.

2Choose Object — Create — NDPS Manager.

This causes the Create NDPS Manager Object dialog box to appear.

3Type a name in the NDPS Manager Name field.

4Browse for the Resident Server where you want this manager as- signed.

This can be any server in the current NDS tree in which you have in- stalled NDPS. This will be the only server on which you will be able to load this NDPS Manager. The NDPS Manager will store its database on a volume of this server.

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