Network File And Print Serving - IBM i series Handbook

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data sent to your PC printer via PC5250 printer emulation. SSL requires connection to
OS/400 V4R5 or later.
Client Access Express Security – New with V5R1
Client Access Express supports new password rules, allowing case-sensitive user profile
passwords up to 128 characters in length with a larger character set.

Network File and Print Serving

iSeries NetServer is being used to satisfy file and print serving needs for end users.
NetServer unites integrated file system and iSeries printers into the Microsoft Network
Neighborhood. User benefits include increased stability at startup and shutdown of the PC
and better control of user visibility to resources. The only directories or printers that can be
seen by end users are those set up as "shared" by an administrator or resource owner.
NetServer brings the following additional benefits versus using built-in PC file and print
serving functions, including:
• No background tasks (such as cwbuitsk, cwbnpred, cwbsvd, cwbbs), which previously
used extra battery power on laptops.
• When using network drives to access integrated file system information or Network
Printers to use iSeries Network Printers, these resources were visible to all end users
on the iSeries server. NetServer allows the administrator or owner of a resource to
control its visibility to end users. Creating a "share" enables viewing of that resource. If
no share exists, users will not see the directories or printers.
Desktop users can now fully satisfy their file and print serving needs through the iSeries
NetServer function. Therefore, all the file and print serving functions currently existing in the
other iSeries Client Access clients have been removed from the Express client. To use the
iSeries NetServer, only the Client for Microsoft Networks (shipped with Microsoft 32-bit
operating systems) with file sharing enabled needs to be installed on the PC.
iSeries NetServer file and printer "shares" are easy to create, locate, and manage by using
the Operations Navigator printer list and IFS list. The current file shares can be listed
separately to make it easy to quickly explore the contents of a file share or map a drive to it.
File shares now support EBCDIC to ASCII conversion.
The AFP Workbench Viewer is also provided so iSeries spooled files (AFP and SCS) or PC
files (such as GIF, TIFF, and JPEG formats) can be viewed directly by a PC user. The AFP
Viewer provides many end-user productivity aids such as the ability to zoom in or search for
specific portions of a stored document.
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