The PCONSOLE utility

Using quick setup to create bindery printing objects

The ``Quick Setup'' option can be used to create printing objects in bindery mode as well as Directory Services mode. For instructions on setting up network printing in Directory Services mode with this option, see ``Using quick setup in PCONSOLE''.

When you use ``Quick Setup'' in bindery mode, you can attach to a bindery-based server or get a bindery attachment to a NetWare Services server. Either way, you get the following items created and tied together:

A print server created in SYS:SYSTEM directory of the current server, with a hexadecimal directory (such as SYS:SYSTEM\FA010002), that contains the following four hidden files:

PRINT.000
printer configuration information
DESCRIPT
description information
NOTIFY.000
Notify list
QUEUE.000
queue serviced by printer information
A printer created in the print server subdirectory (such as, the PRINT.000 file in SYS:SYSTEM\FA010002) (Non-D.S. object).
A queue created in SYS:SYSTEM directory of the current server, with a hexadecimal directory (such as, SYS:SYSTEM\7701000F.QDR), that has two ``Hidden'' files in it.

Use Bindery mode on a NetWare Services server if you want to load a bindery-based print server (such as pserver on a NetWare 3x file server) that is servicing queues on a NetWare Services server. This means the NetWare 3x pserver or other bindery based print server has to access the queue and the notification information on each server that it is servicing queues from.

If you need to load pserver on a NetWare Services server, use only the Directory Services mode when defining printing objects.

See ``Using quick setup in PCONSOLE'' for instructions on using this Quick Setup feature.

NOTE:

If you use bindery mode to configure the print server, printer, and queue (such as with Quick Setup), and then try to view the printer information in Directory Services mode, you will not see the printer because no Directory Services Printer object was created. You must switch PCONSOLE into the mode in which the Printer object was created in order to view or manage that object.