User Guide

42 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
Maintaining Your Queues during the Transition
NDPS Printer Agents, either embedded into printers or running as part of an
NDPS Manager, can be configured to retrieve jobs from queues in addition to
accepting jobs from NDPS users.
Maintaining your queues allows you to gradually migrate users to NDPS
because users' workstations can continue to print to existing queues and be
moved to NDPS as time permits. Workstations can even be configured to print
to both queues and NDPS printers.
In addition to allowing for a gradual transition to NDPS, this configuration is
also the only support currently available for DOS and Windows DOS-box
printing and for handling printing requests from other systems such as UNIX
or Macintosh*. It also allows Novell clients to submit jobs to NetWare queues,
providing these clients with access to NDPS-managed printers.
Simpler management and
configuration
Local printer installation and
management integrated into native
operating system facilities
Advanced error reporting and
troubleshooting tools for
administrators
Public access printing
Queues no longer needed
Potentially less network traffic
Improved error reporting and
troubleshooting tools for users
Advanced job-related event
notification
Advantages to Running NDPS on the
Server
Additional Advantages of Running
NDPS on Clients also
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Printer Agent
PrinterQueue