Adding Or Updating Printer Drivers; Prerequisite; Procedure - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Adding or Updating Printer Drivers

Prerequisite

Procedure

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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
A printer driver is a software entity that directly supports a physical printer,
enabling it to carry out the functions it is intended to perform.
Hardware vendors develop printer drivers, which are specific to each printer.
Most printers require different printer drivers for each operating system they
interact with. NDPS allows you to view a complete list of printer drivers
currently loaded in the Broker's Resource Management Service (RMS)for
Windows, and to add additional printer drivers from diskettes and Windows
.CAB files.
NDPS ships with only English-language drivers. To make drivers in other
languages available for installation on workstations, you will first need to add
those drivers to the RMS through the procedure described in this section.
While the majority of printer drivers in common use today can be used with
NDPS, some cannot. A few drivers do not work on a network at all, while
others might not contain an index file or have an index file that is incorrectly
formatted. If you attempt to add a printer driver to the Resource Management
Service from a diskette and receive an error message stating that a printer
driver cannot be found, you should contact the driver's vendor.
Printer drivers cannot be installed to the Resource Management Service from
multiple floppy disks. If a printer driver is shipped on more than one disk,
copy the files to a directory on a hard drive or network drive and install the
driver from there.
1
Make sure the Resource Management Service is enabled either in
iManage or by going to your server console and viewing the Broker status
screen.
2
In iManage, click Manager Broker and then select the Broker you want to
work with.
3
Click Resource Management Service and then the type of printer driver
you want to add.
4
Add or delete printer drivers to the list.