User Guide

Managing Printers 75
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
103-000137-001
August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Designating Printers to Be Automatically Installed
While NDPS allows users to download and install printers on their
workstations, it also allows administrators to designate printers to be
downloaded and installed automatically. These printers then appear on the
user's installed printers list with no action required by the user.
You can designate a printer to be installed automatically by using the Remote
Printer Management feature in iManage. See “Using Remote Printer
Management” on page 75 for more information.
Designating a Default Printer
When you use the Remote Printer Management (RPM) feature to designate a
printer for automatic installation on each user workstation, you can also
designate that printer to be the default for users in the same context
(container). This way, the user never has to install or configure that printer or
designate it as the default. Instead, a configured default printer is installed
automatically on each workstation.
The assignments made through the RPM are limited to the specific container.
They do not flow down to subcontainers.
Even though you designate a printer as the default, users can specify a
different default printer if they want.
Using Remote Printer Management
While NDPS allows users to download and install printer drivers on their
workstations, the Remote Printer Management feature also allows
administrators to designate printers to be downloaded and installed
automatically. These printers then appear in the Windows Printer Folder for
the user's workstation. Administrators can also use this feature to remove
printers, assign a printer to be the default printer, and update printer drivers
from the NDPS Resource Management Service database (RESDIR).
Remote Printer Management configures printing on workstations based on a
User object, group membership, and container.