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From: DOUGW@BROWNVM.BITNET (Doug Wilkinson)
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Subject: Re: Printer & Queue Management: more
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Date: 2 Feb 90 20:24:35 GMT
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>Posted on 1 Feb 1990 at 16:11:45 by BrownVM Mailer (103837)
>
>Printer & Queue Management: more
>
>
>        Maybe I didn't make my problem clear.  At present we have two
>        servers, and everyone attaches to both of them, logging in to
>        either one or the other.  Everyone has a CAPTURE command which
>        specifies a /Server=  &  a  /Queue=  in their login script.
>        Most of the time, users just use this as the default printer,
>        no problems.  They just don't grasp the idea of having to
>        specify a different server simply to attach to a different printer,
>        and then when they try to chase down their output, using PCONSOLE,
>        they can never find the print queues on the other server.  I guess
>        its just not obvious enough to select a menu item which lets them
>        look at other servers.  This problem will get a lot worse when more
>        servers are added to the network.
>
>
>        Ideally, I would like to have all servers see a queue with a
>        name like LAB_LASERJET, and be able to simply send data to it,
>        without needing to know that it's on a different fileserver.
>
>        What I have tried is:
>            Using PCONSOLE as SUPERVISOR;
>                create a print queue,
>                goto 'Print Queue Information' menu,
>                Select 'Queue Servers'.  The default
>                file server name appears, and if I press
>                'INSert', the menu 'Queue Server Candidates'
>                comes up blank.  I was hoping to see the names
>                of all of the other file servers on the network,
>                or just the ones I'm attached to, in this menu.
>
>            Is there something wrong, here?
>

I think I understand what you are trying to do, and either I am completely
wrong, or your solution is very easy.

The following should work in theory, but I have not tried it.  Some of the
following may answer the questions above about PCONSOLE.

I would think that all you have to do is create a queue on each server that
describes the printer it will be servicing.  Next, using PCONSOLE, (at least
with 2.15C of NetWare) you will look on the main menu, and choose "Print Server
Information".  This will list the available print servers.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE MISSING IN PCONSOLE ABOVE.

***  If you press INSERT here, it will ask for additional print server names.
You can try entering the names of other file servers (which are print servers
also) here.  Once you do this, you can go into each queue
and add the server as a print server.  (The servers should appear in the
list when you hit INSERT).

Once all this is done, you should be able to use PRINTCON to create print jobs
that will give people all the flexibility they need.  By creating the queues
on each server, the users never have to switch servers to see when their job
has finished.

As I said, I have not tried it, but it seems reasonable to expect it to! :-)

Doug Wilkinson
Computing and Information Services
Brown University