User Guide

Planning the Migration to Novell Distributed Print Services 55
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
103-000137-001
August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
UNIX-to-NetWare Printing
This configuration uses the NFS Print Services to route print jobs from a
UNIX system into NetWare. The following is a common use of the UNIX-to-
NetWare Printer Gateway:
As discussed in “Maintaining Your Queues during the Transition” on page 42,
a Printer Agent can be set to service queues, enabling one of the following
setups:
This configuration allows administrators to route jobs out of UNIX systems
into NDPS using the same mechanism they use today, while giving them
extended capabilities to manage the printers that service those jobs.
UNIX
system
PrinterQueue
Print
server
UNIX-to-NetWare
printer gateway
UNIX
system
Queue
UNIX-to-NetWare
printer gateway
PA
Printer
Agent
PA
Printer with
embedded
Printer Agent
Printer