Microsoft KB Archive/140468

= Microsoft Knowledge Base =

How to Set Up Printers on FPNW to Service Pserver.NLM
Last reviewed: April 11, 1997

Article ID: Q140468

The information in this article applies to:


 * 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 Windows NT FPNW Server:

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 It is absolutely critical to have the Print server name and Printer name be identical on both the Netware and FPNW servers.

 Use Print Manager to create a printer on the FPNW server, and call it NT_Q1. 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. Type the description (optional). In the print to box, select the NetWareCompatiblePServerX port. Share the printer on the network. (FPNW will not see the queue unless it is shared.) Under the Details button, set the Print Processor type to NWPRINT, if it isn't already set. Click OK to save the configuration. 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.</li> With PS_1 highlighted, select the Printers button, and add a new printer. Call it PRN_1.</li> Select the Defined Elsewhere type.</li> Click OK to save the configuration.</li>  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. </li>  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. </li></ol>

FPNW PSERVER is now configured to service the File server RED_1 running Print server PS_1.

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.