Paradyne 6800 manual Configuring Network Printers

Preparing the Printers

Network Printers

The 6800 Series NMS supports the system printing function over a TCP/IP network to remotely located printer servers. Further information regarding this feature can be found by referring to the COMSPHERE 6800 Series Network Management System User's/System Administrator's Guide.

Configuring Network Printers

This feature supports those printer types that are already supported as local system printers with the restriction that network printers must not be named printer0, printer1, or printer2. These names are reserved for printers directly connected to the host processor.

You must define the remote printer to the UNIX operating system before sending print jobs from NMS to the newly defined network printer. To configure the UNIX Remote Line Printing (RLP) feature, you must change the parameters of the RLP on the 6800 host. Before beginning, determine which type of UNIX system is being run on the remote printer server (UNIX SCO/S5R4 or BSD UNIX). Follow the appropriate procedures below.

Remote Printing with the UNIX SCO/S5R4 Print Spooler

To establish the remote printer connections with a printer server running UNIX SCO/S5R4, perform the following steps:

1.Logon to the NMS host as root and TYPE: sysadmsh

PRESS: Enter

2.The System Administrator menu appears. Using the ← / → keys, select Printers and PRESS: Enter

3.Select Configure and PRESS: Enter

4.Select Add and PRESS: Enter

5.The printer addition table appears. You must fill in the fields as follows:

Printer name=[ local name for remote printer ]

Comment=[ optional text ]

Class name=[ blank ]

Use printer interface=[ Existing ]

Name of interface=[ network ]

Connection=[ Direct ]

Device Name=[ /dev/null ]

Device=[ Hardwired ]

Require banner=[no]

Fill in the applicable fields and press return after each field. Press return for empty fields, too, and be sure that the entire form is completed.

6800-A2-GN22-30 January 1997 3-19