Novell Netware Overview - Xerox DocuPrint 180 NPS Installation Planning Manual

Novell NetWare overview

Print queues
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D. DDocuPrint NPS on a Novell
This chapter provides a brief overview of Novell NetWare, and
describes some of the considerations you must make before the
service representative installs DocuPrint NPS on a Novell network.
In a Novell network, clients who connect to the file server, are
authenticated, and maintain an open connection. Communication is
through the file server and not client-to-device. Communications are
typically on an Ethernet or Token Ring LAN.
Novell NetWare software receives and queues print jobs. It assigns
priorities to incoming jobs and tracks information about each job. It
sends print jobs to the printer, and contains a series of utilities and
menus to set up, manage, and manipulate print queues.
DocuPrint NPS supports Novell NetWare versions 3.11 and 3.12.
Note: Customers using Novell 4.1 must set the Bindery Emulation
Mode to be compatible with Novell 3.12.
A print queue is a holding area on the file server where print jobs are
stored until a printer is ready. A queue allows multiple users to send
jobs to the same printer at the same time. The queue software
accepts and tracks jobs to enable users to view, remove, and change
values of jobs while they are in the queue.
Each queue has a directory on a hard disk. A print job sent to a queue
is stored as a file within that directory. Once the job is printed, the file
is removed from the queue directory.
The print queue software maintains a temporary record of
information for every print job. The information includes such items
as job number, job position in the queue, time the job entered the
queue, print server designated to print the job, user ID of the person
who submitted the job, and so on. The user can access this
information or cancel a job, using PCONSOLE, for each queue.
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