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You can install printers on NDPS workstations in either of the following ways:
Certain drivers (mostly older drivers) will not work when the printer name/port name has a long name (32 characters or more). The port name looks something like \\TREE_NAME\SERVER_NAME\installed_printer_name.
To resolve this problem for NDPS, a new flag has been added to the Windows registry that will allow for printer names to be less than 31 characters in length so that old applications can still print. The key is as follows:
While NDPS allows users to download and install printers on their workstations, it also allows administrators to designate printers to be downloaded and installed automatically. These printers then appear on the user's installed printers list with no action required by the user.
You can designate a printer to be installed automatically by using the Remote Printer Management feature in Novell iManager. See Using Remote Printer Management for more information.
When you use the Remote Printer Management (RPM) feature to designate a printer for automatic installation on each user workstation, you can also designate that printer to be the default for users in the same context (container). This way, the user never has to install or configure that printer or designate it as the default. Instead, a configured default printer is installed automatically on each workstation.
The assignments made through the RPM are limited to the specific container. They do not flow down to subcontainers.
Even though you designate a printer as the default, users can specify a different default printer if they want.
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