D.DocuPrint NPS on a Novell network
This chapter provides a brief overview of Novell NetWare, and describes some of the considerations you must make before the service representative installs DocuPrint NPS on a Novell network.
Novell NetWare overview
In a Novell network, clients who connect to the file server, are authenticated, and maintain an open connection. Communication is through the file server and not
Novell NetWare software receives and queues print jobs. It assigns priorities to incoming jobs and tracks information about each job. It sends print jobs to the printer, and contains a series of utilities and menus to set up, manage, and manipulate print queues.
DocuPrint NPS supports Novell NetWare versions 3.11 and 3.12.
Note: Customers using Novell 4.1 must set the Bindery Emulation
Mode to be compatible with Novell 3.12.
Print queues
A print queue is a holding area on the file server where print jobs are stored until a printer is ready. A queue allows multiple users to send jobs to the same printer at the same time. The queue software accepts and tracks jobs to enable users to view, remove, and change values of jobs while they are in the queue.
Each queue has a directory on a hard disk. A print job sent to a queue is stored as a file within that directory. Once the job is printed, the file is removed from the queue directory.
The print queue software maintains a temporary record of information for every print job. The information includes such items as job number, job position in the queue, time the job entered the queue, print server designated to print the job, user ID of the person who submitted the job, and so on. The user can access this information or cancel a job, using PCONSOLE, for each queue.
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