A Novell^® Distributed Print Services^TM (NDPS^TM) Manager provides a platform for Printer Agents that reside on the server. An NDPS Manager must be created as an object in the NDS^TM tree before you can create server-based Printer Agents.

The NDPS Manager object stores information used by the NetWare^® Loadable Module^TM (NLM^TM), NDPSM.NLM. You can manually load this NLM at the server console, or it will be automatically loaded when you create a Printer Agent with NetWare Administrator.

A single NDPS Manager can control multiple Printer Agents. (There is no hard limit.)

A specific NDPS Manager can be loaded only on one server. If it controls a local printer, it must be loaded on the server the local printer is attached to.

While you can perform some configuration and management tasks directly through the NDPS Manager console interface, the NetWare Administrator is the main tool for performing these tasks.

For information about other major NDPS components, see the following: