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TotalNET Advanced Server 5.2 Administration Guide

4.6 Administering Printers

Network clients use printer names in net use and capture commands and their Windows equivalents. File services can export only those print queues defined as printers. To allow network clients access to a printer and its queue, define it by referencing it to the LM-NT-OS/2 and NetWare file services for the clients. In TAS 5.2, you can make AppleTalk network printers available to LM-NT-OS/2 and NetWare clients.

TAS handles printing in the AppleTalk realm with dedicated print services rather than file services. The AppleTalk-compatible print service configuration contains the printer information for AppleTalk realm clients.

Follow these steps to create, modify, or delete a printer:

  1. Follow these links:

    • System->Printers

      The Printers screen appears.

  2. From the list, select the name of the printer you want to modify or delete, or enter the name of a printer you want to add, in the text field. If deleting, you may select more than one printer. The list contains nothing if no printers exist.

  3. Click Create, Modify, or Delete. The Modify and Delete buttons do not appear if no printers exist.

    If you clicked Create, the New Printer Definition screen below appears. Go to Step 4.

    If you clicked Modify, the Update Printer Definition for printername screen, same as the New Printer Definition screen below, appears. Go to Step 4.

    If you clicked Delete, the Confirmation screen appears. Click OK. Do not go to Step 4.

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  4. Enter or select values for the following attributes, as needed:

    • Printer name -- The name used in net use and capture commands and their Windows equivalents. If you clicked Modify, this attribute does not appear.

    • Description -- A printer description to appear in Network Neighborhood or Chooser windows or at the net view command.

    • Queue name -- The UNIX print queue associated with the printer. If you do not define this attribute, it defaults to the printer name.

    • Spooler options -- UNIX command line options that pass to the UNIX print spool program when a print job starts.

    • Share access -- The option to make a printer accessible through share-level security mode services, which only the LM-NT-OS/2 realm supports. If you do not select this option, users can only access the printer through user-level security services. If you select this option, TAS requires users to supply the Share password to access the printer.

    • Share password -- The password a user must supply to access a share-mode printer. This option has no effect unless you enable Share access. If you enter no password, TAS allows users to access the printer in share mode without passwords. If a password already exists, TAS indicates it with an asterisk (*). This password changes only if you remove it or enter a new one. Setting the password to "#" causes TAS to deny all access to this printer in share mode. A user, when making connections to TAS and prompted for a connection password, must precede each upper-case character in the password with a tilde (~).

    • AppleTalk network printer -- The option to make an AppleTalk printer available on the network. The list contains available AppleTalk network printer names based on of Printer type in AppleTalk zone. The AppleTalk network printer, Printer type, and AppleTalk zone designations make up the AppleTalk entity name.

    • Printer type -- The type of the AppleTalk printer you want to make available. This list contains supported AppleTalk printer types. The AppleTalk network printer, Printer type, and AppleTalk zone designations make up the AppleTalk entity name.

    • AppleTalk zone -- The AppleTalk zone for which you want to make the printer available. The list contains the AppleTalk zones discovered in the network segment. The AppleTalk network printer, Printer type, and AppleTalk zone designations make up the AppleTalk entity name.

    • LM-NT-OS/2 compatible file services -- The list of LM-NT-OS/2 file services. Select the file services from which you wish to reference the printer.

    • NetWare compatible file services -- The list of NetWare-compatible file services. Select the file services from which you wish to reference the printer.

  5. Click Submit.

    The Creating new Printer Definition for printername screen or the Updating Printer Definition for printername screen appears.

  6. Click OK.

    To administer printers from the UNIX command line, use the tnprinter command.