Setting Up Printers - Digital Equipment MUXserver 100 Reference Manual

2.10 SETTING UP PRINTEF~S
You can replace any DECnlUX II port device with an asynchronous, serial
printer (or other applications terminal). This allows MUXserver 100 users to
obtain hardcopy printouts from network services. Printer ports have remote ac-
cess and sessions between printers and service nodes are remote sessions.
Whether a service node can initiate rernote requests for connections to
MUXserver 100 printers depends upon its operating system and its version of
the LAT service node software.
Service nodes with printer support software - VAX or MicroVAX systems run-
ning
(1)
VMS Version 4.2 or later and (2) LATplus/VMS Version 1.0 or later
that supports MUXserver 100 printers. These systems can initiate remote
requests.
Service nodes without printer support cannot send remote requests to use
MUXserver 100 printers. Service nodes with printer support can send remote
requests to the MUXserver 100. The requests are placed in the server queue,
and the server establishes remote sessions automatically.
The system managers of these service nodes need to know the names you give
to the remote access ports on YG!lr server (the value for the NAME port char-
acteristic). They can then use LAT Control Program commands to create a
"path" from virtual ports on their service nodes to the printer ports on your
MUXserver 100.
Use the DEFINE PORT command to set up these port characteristics values
for each printer port.
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