Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!J!TIM From: tim@J.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Timothy Lange) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Re: Printer & Queue management. Message-ID: <9001312342.AA26388@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 31 Jan 90 23:42:17 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 16 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway I have setup my 2.12 and 2.15 networks so users on the 2.15 can print to lasers on the 2.12 server without knowing where the printers are. I used PRINTCON to setup default jobs and speciality jobs. The default job on my 2.15 server says to print to the queues on the 2.12 server. I don't have a GUEST account on the 2.12 server, so it isn't needed. I do have all printers on all servers setup so a printer number is spooled to the appropriate queue. This spooling seems necessary for some tasks. From CIS I downloaded the instructions to patch NPRINT and CAPTURE so they will all read the SUPERVISOR's PRINT.DAT file. This means the Supervisor's copy of PRINTCON and PRINTDEF info will be used by all on the network. The nice thing about the print jobs is I can easily switch printers, queues, and servers around and reroute output with just a few seconds with PRINTCON. Tim.