Creating NDPS Printers

NDPS printers can be either public access or controlled access. For an explanation of each type, see Understanding NDPS Printers. In most cases, we recommend that you make all of your NDPS printers controlled access printers as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of the management and security benefits offered by eDirectory.

Before you can create an NDPS printer, you must first have created an NDPS Manager on your server. See Creating NDPS Manager for more information.

After creating an NDPS Manager, you can create NDPS printers. Some third-party gateways have server-based utilities that can be configured to search for new printers attached to the network and to automatically create Printer Agents to represent them. For more information about gateways, see Selecting the Correct Gateway to Use.

NDPS printers added to the eDirectory tree by Novell iManager are referred to as controlled access printers. As eDirectory objects, access to them is controlled and they are no longer available directly as public access printers. They are available to the workstation user only through the eDirectory object list instead of through the list of public access printers.

When you use Novell iManager to create and NDPS Printer Object and select the Novell Gateway, the Novell Gateway (NDPSGW.NLM) is used.

When you use NetWare Administrator to create a Printer object and select the Novell Gateway, the gateway comprised of PH.NLM and NDPDS.NLM is used. This is the only version of the gateway that supports the RP protocol and local ports.

To use a third-party print vendor's gateway, you must use NetWare Administrator to create the NDPS Printer object.

Prerequisites

• Have at least Read, Write, Modify, and Create rights for the destination container where its associated Printer object will reside
• Be designated as a Manager of the NDPS Manager that will control this Printer Agent
• Have a Broker running
• Have an NDPS Manager object created

Procedure

1. In Novell iManager, click iPrint Management > Create Printer.

2. Fill in the fields.

   Click help for explanations about the fields.

3. Click OK.

4. Select the printer driver for each client operating system.

   These drivers will be automatically downloaded to users' workstations when they install this printer in the future.

   If you choose a Windows 3.x driver but not a Windows 95/98/ME or Windows NT/2000 driver, a 16-bit driver will be selected. Normally this will not create problems.

   Since the list of printer drivers shipped with this product is limited, you can add drivers to the Resource Management Service database. (See Adding or Updating Printer Drivers for more information.)

   If the driver you need is not in the drivers list, rather than adding it to the RMS, you can select [None] at the top of each list. Users will then be asked to provide a disk with the appropriate driver the first time they install this printer on their workstations.

5. Click Continue.

Workstation users can now select the printer and print to it.