Properties of the Default Printer Configuration can be locked by the administrator to be nonconfigurable; that is, they cannot be modified or overridden by the user. Locked properties can be either of the following:
Maximum limits. Certain properties, those that specify limits, are always locked: Maximum Copies, Maximum Priority, and Retain Job No Longer Than. Even if the Manager does not specify a limit for these properties, they are grayed out and inaccessible to users who are modifying their own configurations.
These properties relate to a range in which the maximum value in that range is specified. For example, if the default configuration has a locked property limiting the maximum number of copies of a job that can be printed to five, any number of copies up to five is allowed, but a job calling for 10 copies will be rejected.
Individual locked properties. Many properties are tied to a specific setting. For example, you can lock the priority of jobs to be printed using this configuration, or designate a specific banner page that must be used when jobs are submitted.
Once a default configuration property has been locked, it will be locked for all jobs submitted to that printer and for all new configurations created for that printer as well, whether that configuration has been created with NetWare® Administrator or by a workstation user when creating a new configuration for an installed printer.
Any job submitted to an old configuration must conform to the new locked property or the job will be rejected.
Use the following procedure to lock one or more properties for a printer.
In NetWare Administrator, select the Novell Distributed Print ServicesTM (NDPS)TM Printer object you want to configure.
The main NDPS Printer Details window appears.
Click the Control button.
A menu of printer control options appears.
Select Set Defaults from the pulldown menu that appears.
The Printer Defaults configuration dialog appears.
Set the configuration locks you want and then click OK.
The lock status of all properties that can be locked is shown by the icon. Click the lock icon next to the property.
For a detailed explanation of each configuration property, refer to the online help available at this dialog.
For information about additional configuration optimization procedures, see the following: