User Guide
36 Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
103-000137-001
August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Establishing your planning base consists of the following tasks:
“Assessing Your Current Printing Environment” on page 36
“Identifying Critical Planning Issues” on page 37
“Designing Your New System” on page 39
Assessing Your Current Printing Environment
Beginning with NetWare
®
5, NDPS became the default and preferred print
system while still offering compatibility with Novell’s legacy, queue-based
print system. Because both printing systems are supported, your users can
continue printing as they always have until you complete the transition to
NDPS.
For information about the differences between queue-based print services and
NDPS, see Chapter 1, “Understanding Novell Distributed Print Services,” on
page 13.
Your first planning task should be to determine what kind of printing system
you currently have. You can then begin narrowing down your options for how
to proceed. In nearly all cases, your system will consist of one or more of the
following:
NetWare Legacy (Queue-Based) Printing System—If your current
printing solution is based on the NetWare legacy, queue-based system,
you will find information on upgrading to NDPS in “Migrating from
Queue-Based Printing to NDPS” on page 48.
NetWare 3.x Printing System—If you currently have a NetWare 3.1x
server bindery and file system and you are using a relatively small
number of printers, you should consider implementing your NDPS
system from scratch and then deleting all of your legacy printing objects.
However if your system is large and you do not want to create your NDPS
printing system from scratch, you can implement an NDPS printing
system on your network using the process described in “Migrating from
Queue-Based Printing to NDPS” on page 48.
NetWare for UNIX or NFS Printing SystemSeveral scenarios can be
used to incorporate NDPS into environments that use NFS* Print
Services:
“NetWare-to-UNIX Printing” on page 54
“UNIX-to-NetWare Printing” on page 55