Spooler Plus Utilities Reference Manual

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5 RPSetup Utility
The RPSetup utility establishes cross-spooler connections between spoolers in a
network. These connections give users access to printers on remote nodes in a
network. You use RPSetup to create and maintain a spooler configuration for a node
with a limited number of printers, so that print jobs from local applications can be sent
to a remote spooler and queued for printing on remote printers.
The following topics are described in this section:
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How the RPSetup Utility Works on page 5-1
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Running RPSetup on page 5-6
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Configuring Entities in the Local Spooler on page 5-8
How the RPSetup Utility Works
When RPSetup runs, it reads configuration information from the remote spooler
supervisor, analyses the information, and writes new configuration information to the
local spooler supervisor.
RPSetup sets up connections to all valid locations on the remote node. To create
these connections, RPSetup creates locations on the local spooler with the same
names as locations on the remote node. RPSetup might also add required print
processes and devices to the local spooler configuration.
The functions of the RPSetup utility are illustrated in Figure 5-1.