Monitoring and Configuring the Printer

info

Use the "info" command to display printer information such as paper tray, output tray, and printer lan- guage.

Printer information display msh> info

 

 

Reference

 

 

For details about displayed con-

 

 

tents, see p.112 “Getting Printer In-

 

 

formation over the Network”.

4

 

 

 

 

 

ipp

Use the “ipp” command to configure IPP settings.

Viewing settings

The following command displays the current IPP settings:

msh> ipp

Example output:

timeout = 900(sec) auth = basic

The “timeout” setting specifies how many seconds the compu- ter tries to send print jobs when no connection can be made to the network printer.

The “auth” setting indicates the user authorization mode.

IPP user authorization configuration

Use IPP user authorization to re- strict users to print with IPP. The default is “off”.

msh> ipp auth {basicdi- gestoff}

User authorization settings are “basic” and “digest”.

Use “off” to remove a user's au- thorization.

If user authorization is speci- fied, register a user name. You can register up to 10 users.

IPP user configuration

Use the following command:

msh> ipp user

The following message appears:

msh> Input user number (1 to 10):

Enter the number, user name, and password.

msh> IPP user name:user1 msh> IPP password:*******

After configuring the settings, the following message appears:

User configuration changed.

netware

Use the “netware” command to configure the NetWare settings such as the print server name or file server name.

IPP timeout configuration

Specify how many seconds the computer waits before canceling an interrupted print job. The time can be entered between 30 to 65535 seconds.

msh> ipp timeout {30 - 65535}

Netware Printer Server Names msh> netware pname

Enter the NetWare print server name using up to 47 characters.

Netware File Server Names msh> netware fname

Enter the NetWare file server name using up to 47 characters.

96