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• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51
• Microsoft File and Print Services for NetWare version 3.51

SUMMARY

Novell offers two NetWare PSERVER utilities: PSERVER.NLM, which runs on the NetWare file server and PSERVER.EXE, which runs on a dedicated workstation. The functions of the two utilities are basically the same; they run as a resident program, servicing up to 16 physical printers, and they poll the queues attached to those printers. Microsoft supports clients printing on both type of printer servers.

MORE INFORMATION

Use the following procedure to set up a print server to service a printer queue located at another server. In this case, you are going to service a printer attached and configured on a NetWare 3.x server. The following assumptions are made for the sake of simplicity:

NetWare Server:

NetWare File Server Name:   RED_1
NetWare Print Server Name:   PS_1
NetWare Printer Name:      PRN_1
NetWare Print Queue Name:   NW_Q1
File Server/s Being Serviced:   RED_1
                  NT_1

FPNW Server Name:         NT_1
FPNW Print Server Name:      PS_1
FPNW Printer Name:         PRN_1
FPNW Print Queue Name:      NT_Q1
File Server/s Being Serviced:   NT_1
                  RED_1

1. Use Print Manager to create a printer on the FPNW server, and call it NT_Q1.

2. Select the correct driver for your printer from the printer driver list, or select Other, and type in the path for the drivers provided by the manufacturer.

3. Type the description (optional).

4. In the print to box, select the NetWareCompatiblePServerX port.

5. Share the printer on the network. (FPNW will not see the queue unless it is shared.)

6. Under the Details button, set the Print Processor type to NWPRINT, if it isn't already set.

7. Click OK to save the configuration.

8. Under Server Manager => FPNW => Print Servers, add a new print server, and call it PS_1. Provide a password if needed, or leave it blank.

9. With PS_1 highlighted, select the Printers button, and add a new printer. Call it PRN_1.

10. Select the Defined Elsewhere type.

11. Click OK to save the configuration.

12. Click the Queues button on the Printers dialog box, and add the queue

        from the available queues box (NT_Q1) that was created previously in
        Print Manager. Click OK to save the configuration.
    

13. Select the File Server option in the Print Servers dialog box, and

        add RED_1 to be serviced from the available list of File servers.
    

You need to run PCONSOLE against the Netware server RED_1 to configure Print server PS_1 to service Windows NT FPNW server NT_1. You also need to unload or reload PSERVER.NLM.

Netware and Windows NT clients can now attach or connect to the NT_Q1 printer queue and print to the PSERVER on RED_1.