Users can submit jobs through NDPS to printers and print systems that still require queues, such as the following:
The following procedure allows you to configure the Printer Agent to redirect print jobs to a NetWare queue.
HINT: While this procedure allows you to connect to queue-based printers controlled by NetWare servers in the current eDirectory tree, you might also need to create one or more bindery reference queues to provide access to printers controlled by a NetWare 3 file server and printers controlled by a NetWare 4 or NetWare 5 server in a different tree. For more information, see Using Bindery Reference Queues.
In NetWare Administrator, select the container where you want the NDPS Printer object to reside.
From the Object menu, click Create > NDPS Printer.
Enter a name in the Printer Name field.
At the Printer Agent Source field, select Create a New Printer Agent, and then click Create.
Confirm the Printer Agent name (default is the name of the new printer you are creating) and browse to select the NDPS Manager you want to assign it to.
At the Gateway Types window, select the Novell Printer Gateway.
For more information about using gateways, see Selecting the Correct Gateway to Use.
Configure the Novell PDS by selecting the Printer Type and Port Handler Type, and then click OK.
At the Connection Type field, select Forward Jobs to a Queue and then click Next.
The Port Type options are grayed when you select the Queue connection type.
Provide the Queue Name and Queue User Name.
Browse for the target print queue. If no queues are listed, none exist in the current context. Browse the tree to find a queue in a different context. The queue you select must exist in the current tree, or else you will need to create a bindery reference queue in your own container to allow access to the actual queue. See Using Bindery Reference Queues.
The user you specify might need to log in to the server that this queue resides on. This user must have full rights to manage this queue.
Click Finish.
Select the printer driver for each client operating system.
These drivers will be automatically downloaded to users' workstations when they install this printer in the future. Select a driver for each operating system.
If you choose a Windows 3.x driver but not a Windows 95/98/ME or Windows NT/2000 driver, a 16-bit driver will be selected. Normally this will not create problems.
Since the list of printer drivers shipped with this product is limited, you can add drivers to the Resource Management Service database. (See Adding or Updating Printer Drivers for more information.)
If the driver you need is not in the drivers list, rather than adding it to the RMS, you can select [None] at the top of each list. Users will then be asked to provide a disk with the appropriate driver the first time they install this printer on their workstations.
Click Continue.
The main browser window appears with your new controlled access printer listed.
You can select it from the browser to complete the following tasks:
While we strongly urge you to upgrade all of your printers to NDPS as soon as possible, you might still want to provide your users with access to queue-based printing resources for a variety of reasons. While connecting to queue-based printers can be accomplished directly when you configure a Printer Agent, you might need to create one or more bindery reference queues to provide access to the following:
A bindery reference queue serves as a pointer to a real NetWare queue. After you have created a bindery reference queue, you can then configure a Printer Agent to send jobs to that queue just as you would if the queue actually resided on another server in the same tree. The following discussion explains how to accomplish this procedure using NetWare Administrator.
If a bindery reference queue already exists, you can use it with NDPS with no modification. A new reference Queue object does not need to be created in eDirectory.
The following procedure lets you reference a bindery queue and make it available to NDPS printers.
In NetWare Administrator, select the container where you want the reference queue to reside.
From the Object menu, click Create > Print Queue.
In the Create Print Queue dialog box, select Reference a Bindery Queue.
Notice that the dialog changes when you select this option.
(Optional) If you want to assign a bindery reference queue name different from the queue's name on the legacy server, enter the reference name in the Print Queue Name field.
If you do not want to assign a reference name, leave the field blank.
Click the browser button to select a bindery server and queue.
Click List Only Attached Servers to specify whether you want this option turned on or off.
To see a list of all available servers, turn off this option. Select the name of the server you want to attach to. Log in to this server at the prompt.
Double-click the server you want to use.
If you are not attached, you must authenticate to that server.
To complete this procedure, a bindery object of the same name as the one you are using must exist on that server and must have rights to the print queue you are referencing.
If no queue names appear, no queues have been defined on that server.
Select the queue you want to create a reference for and click OK.
Click Create.
Return to Step 9 of the procedure for Configuring Queue-Based Printers as a controlled access printer.
Now that this queue is created, you can configure a Printer Agent to service jobs from a queue or to submit jobs to a queue.