12. Configuring your Linux machine as a Novell Print Server.

A program to allow your Linux machine to act as a print server on a Netwarenetwork is included in the ncpfs package. For instructions on how toobtain and build, it follow the directions in the `Netware client' sectionabove. Alternatively, support is included in the mars_nwe package.

12.1 Prerequisites

Configuration is quite straightforward but relies on you already having yourprinter configuration completed and working under Linux. This is covered inthe Printing-HOWTO in some depth.

12.2 Configuration

When you have a working printer configuration, and you have built andinstalled the pserver utility then you need to add commands to start itinto your rc files.

Exactly what command will use will depend on depend on exactly how you wantit to operate, but in its simplest form something like the following willwork:

# pserver -S ACCT_01 -U LASER -P secret -q LASERJET

This example asks the pserver utility to login in to the ACCT_01fileserver with username LASER and password secret and to takejobs from the LASERJET print queue. When an incoming print job is receivedit will use the default print command of lpr to feed the print job to theLinux print daemon. The print queue must already be defined on the fileserverand the username must have server priveliges for the queue.

You could if you wished use any Linux command to accept and print theprint job. The -c argument allows you to specify the exact print command.For example:

# pserver -S ACCT_01 -U LASER -P secret -q LASERJET -c "lpr -Plaserjet"