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68 CONFIGURING THE M208 FOR NOVELL: Host Configuration
This procedure associates an existing PSERVER with a remote M208 acting as a
RPRINTER in a pre-NetWare 4 environment. It is the PSERVER’s responsibility to
get jobs from the queue and to pass them off to the M208 acting as the remote printer.
Unlike a PSERVER set-up, the M208 does not deal directly with the queues.
As a RPRINTER, the M208 does not use a login ID. In addition, a non-M208
PSERVER (e.g. PSERVER.NLM) must be running for RPRINTER to operate.
A RPRINTER set up requires the use of a configuration file. This file is required to tell
the M208 to act as a RPRINTER upon boot up since RPRINTER settings do not hold
their effect through a power cycle. Once the unit boots up, the Print Server contacts
file servers it knows about and on each one, looks for the file
SYS:\LOGIN\M_xxxxxx\CONFIG where xxxxxx is the last six digits (in hexadeci-
mal) of the Ethernet address as found on the bottom of the unit. If it finds this file, it
reads in each entry as if it were an npsh command entered right on the unit.
To ensure that the M208 contacts the file server that contains the CONFIG file, set up
the appropriate file server as a preferred file server. Please see Setting Preferred File
Servers on page 140 for more information.
Caution
If you are using a configuration file and you have changed the name of the M208, you
must change the name of the directory containing this file.
To set up the unit as a RPRINTER in a pre-Netware 4 environment, you need to:
Step Action Result of Action
1 Log in to Novell as supervisor. Gives you supervisor rights.
2 Enter PCONSOLE. PCONSOLE’s Main Menu displays.
3 Select PRINT QUEUE INFORMA-
TION.
List of currently-defined queues comes up.
4 Press <Insert> to add a queue. Asks for new queue’s name.
5 Type in this new name in any format
you like and press <Enter>.
New queue is added to list.
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