Netprint 10/100 printbox a pserver in Netware6 1

[pczmut]

I am looking for help in setting up a Netprint 10/100 print box, as a pserver in a Novell Netware 6.0 o/s to be used to service multiple queues on 1 printer. I have created all the objects in NWAministrator using both the manual setup and the quick setup(non-ndps) and both ways the printer is showing not connected...


Thanks...
Paul

 

[LawnBoy]

Can you ping the printer? Which gateway did you set it up on? Do you have the printer queue name correct (usually "passthrough")?

 

[marvhuffaker]

You said PSERVER, so I am assuming you're using legacy queue based, not NDPS.. You have to go into the Netprint management utility (whatever it is), and configure the NetWare information in there.. Just doing it in NWadmin won't do it.

As lawnboy eluded to, NDPS works much better and eliminates a lot of the hassle that you speak of.

Marvin Huffaker MCNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

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[LawnBoy]

Yeah, I missed the P word, thinking NDPS. You could set up NDPS in the time you've already spent on that one printer... And it is rock-solid.

 

[pczmut]

Yes, I am using the legacy queue based system, not NDPS. And I have set up the information for the Novell 6.0 server and context in the management utility for the Netprint box.
I am running the pserver.nlm on the Novell 6.0 server and it show the server is up and running. Also when I do a display servers on the server console, the print server is displayed..
The reason I am not using NDPS is the printers do not have a network connection, and we are trying to use the print boxes we have so we can attach more than 1 printer to a pserver.

 

[marvhuffaker]

You can use those print boxes with NDPS, even with more than one printer (Assuming it's a typical box with one RJ-45 and 3 parallel ports). You just have to configure the queue name in the NDPS printer configuration (That's the 'PASSTHROUGH' item that Lawnboy mentioned). In multiple port Print servers, you usually have a LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3 designation. Check this link:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10080373.htm

The gotcha is that some of the older netprint 10/100's don't work with NDPS. So it depends on the model.

I didn't get from your last post whether you got it working or not. One thing to check is that the PSERVER should have a connection to the server that you can see in MONITOR.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

Home of the BLUEGUNK Punk

http://www.bluegunk.com

 

[pczmut]

I was finally able to get it going without using the NDPS.
It seems the mistake I was making was loading the pserver.nlm at the server console. Without loading this and then resetting all the information in the print box management utility everything connected and we now seem to have an indentical setup to our Novell 3.12 system. My only concern now is running all our old programs that use the nprint command on the Novell 6.0 server..
Thanks Marv, for your help and the usefull links you provided...