User Guide

58 Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
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August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Getting Started
The following tasks are basic to creating a new NDPS printing system. These
steps assume that NetWare
®
is installed and running.
1. Create an NDPS Broker, if one does not exist.
The Broker provides three network support services: the Service Registry
Service, Event Notification Service, and Resource Management Service.
See “Creating NDPS Brokers” on page 61 for more information.
2. Create an NDPS Manager.
The NDPS Manager is used to create and manage server-based Printer
Agents (similar to the way PSERVER is used on servers to manage
printing resources in legacy printing). You must create an NDPS Manager
on each server you will be controlling NDPS printers from.
See “Creating NDPS Manager” on page 61 for more information.
3. Create one or more NDPS Printer Agents.
NDPS printers must be represented by a logical entity known as a Printer
Agent. You will need to create one for each printer.
The Printer Agent lies at the heart of NDPS, combining the functions
previously performed by a printer, print queue, print server, and spooler
into one intelligent and simplified entity.
For more information, see “Understanding Printer Agents” on page 22.
Create a controlled access printer (NDPS Printer Object).While any
printer, regardless of its physical type or connection mode, can be
configured as either a public access printer or a controlled access printer,
we recommend you create an NDPS priner when possible.
For more information, see “Creating NDPS Printers” on page 62.
4. Install a client on each workstation.
 iPrint: If you will be implementing iPrint, the Novell iPrint Client (a
set of browser plug-ins) will need to be installed on each workstation.
For more information on setting up workstations to work with iPrint,
see Setting Up iPrint on Client Workstations in the iPrint
Administration Guide.
 Printing for UNIX and Macintosh: Unix and Macintosh users can
print to NDPS using LPR. See “Printing from Macintosh