What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Printing

Feature Description 

Print Naming Enhancement

This Solaris release supports the printers database in /etc/nsswitch.conf, the name service switch file. The printers database provides centralized printer configuration information to print clients on the network.

Solaris Print Manager

Solaris Print Manager is a Java based graphical user interface that enables you to manage local and remote printer access. You can use this tool in the following name service environments: NIS, NIS+, and NIS+ with Federated Naming Service (FNS) files.