5.3.10 Creating and Modifying Print Services

Follow these steps to create or modify an AppleTalk print service:

1. Follow these links:

   AppleTalk Realm->Manage AppleTalk Print Services

   The List of AppleTalk Print Services screen appears.

2. From the list, select the print service you want to delete, or enter the name of a service you want to create in the text field. The list contains nothing if no print services exist.

3. Click Create or Administer. The Administer button does not appear if no print services exist.

   If you clicked Create, the Create New AppleTalk Print Service screen below appears. Go to Step 4.

   If you clicked Administer, the AppleTalk Print Service servicename screen appears. Click Configuration, or click the appropriate link from the following, then click OK on the subsequent screen: Accept Service Connections, Reject Service Connections, Status, Start Service, Shutdown Service. If you click Configuration, the Update AppleTalk Print Service screen, same as the Create New AppleTalk Print Service screen below, appears. Go to Step 4.

   

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

   • AppleTalk print service name -- The print service to which users connect. If you clicked Administer and Configuration, this attribute does not appear.

   • Service description -- The description used within TAS for the service. It consists of an arbitrary line of text.

   • User -- The UNIX user identity you want to execute the UNIX command line given in the command directive for the service. The server process inherits the appropriate group list for the user name. This attribute defaults to root.

   • User authentication with an AppleTalk file service -- The option to allow the user to log on to an AppleTalk-compatible file service to print. The user name can appear on the title page of the print job.

   • Name of the spooler (include path from root) -- The name of the UNIX print spooler that the server can execute, needed by the server when printing clients' spooled jobs. Provide the full path of the spooler; for example, /bin/lp or /bin/lpr.

   • Destination printer -- The UNIX printer this print server should use.

   • List Spooler options -- Command line arguments for the print spooler.

   • Start this print service -- The option to start this print service when you click Submit. If you clicked Administer and Configuration, this attribute does not appear.

5. Click Submit.

   The Create New AppleTalk Print Service servicename screen or the Update AppleTalk Print Service servicename screen appears.

6. Click OK.

   To administer AppleTalk print services from the UNIX command line, use the tnservice command.