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Several scenarios can be used to incorporate NDPS into environments that use NFS Print Services:
In most cases, migrating one of these configurations to NDPS will result in simpler and more reliable printing, in addition to the benefits inherent in using NDPS. This section discusses how NDPS can be used to replace or work with NFS Print Services.
The following shows how to route jobs from NetWare out to a UNIX system. This configuration is as follows:
Again, by replacing the Print Server and NetWare-to-UNIX Printer Gateway with the NDPS Manager, the following configuration is possible:
The Novell gateway uses LPR to communicate with the UNIX host. Eventually the clients can also be switched to NDPS, yielding the following configuration:
This configuration uses the NFS Print Services to route print jobs from a UNIX system into NetWare. The following is a common use of the UNIX-to-NetWare Printer Gateway:
As discussed in Maintaining Your Queues during the Transition, a Printer Agent can be set to service queues, enabling one of the following setups:
This configuration allows administrators to route jobs out of UNIX systems into NDPS using the same mechanism they use today, while giving them extended capabilities to manage the printers that service those jobs.
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