Technical data

Setting Up PC-NFS

24.2 Providing PC-NFS Print Services

To conﬁgure PC-NFS print services, you must create and export a spool directory

and deﬁne two system logical names. Follow these steps when conﬁguring your

print server for printing by PC-NFS clients:

1. If one does not already exist, create a spool directory.

2. Map the OpenVMS device to the spool directory path name. For example:

TCPIP> MAP "/PC_PRINT/WORK" DSA31:

3. Make the path available with the ADD EXPORT command as follows:

TCPIP> ADD EXPORT "/PC_PRINT/WORK" /HOST=* /OPTIONS=TYPELESS_DIRECTORIES

4. Create or edit the SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$PCNFS_SYSTARTUP.COM ﬁle to

include the following logical name deﬁnitions:

DEFINE /SYSTEM TCPIP$PCNFSD_SPOOLDEV DSA31:

DEFINE /SYSTEM TCPIP$PCNFSD_SPOOLEXPORT "/PC_PRINT/WORK"

The logical name TCPIP$PCNFSD_SPOOLDEV speciﬁes the device name for

the spool device; TCPIP$PCNFSD_SPOOLEXPORT speciﬁes the exported

spool directory.

24.3 Managing PC-NFS Print Queues

PC users can associate the name of the DOS printer you are conﬁguring with an

OpenVMS print queue and print ﬁles to the associated queue. PC clients cannot,

however, manage NFS print queues from their PC. To manage print queues, you

must log in to either a privileged account or the PC’s proxy account on the NFS

server host, and enter DCL commands to:

• List jobs queued from the PC

• Cancel queued jobs

• Obtain a list of available print queues

• Obtain status of a particular print queue

24.4 PC-NFS Authentication

When accessing ﬁles on an NFS server, a PC user obtains authentication once

from any host running PC-NFS. The user can also access NFS ﬁles on that host

or other hosts, even if the user’s UID/GID has proxy mappings to a different

OpenVMS account on each TCP/IP host.

However, with PC-NFS printing, if the PC user obtains authentication from one

host, the user can only print successfully on other TCP/IP Services hosts that

have a valid OpenVMS account for the same user name.

24–2 Setting Up PC-NFS