Local and remote printer setup

Loading port drivers on OS/2 workstations

NPRINTER provides the interface between OS/2 print queues and NetWare printers.

Before running NPRINTER, you need to define an OS/2 printer to correspond with each NetWare printer that will be receiving print jobs from an OS/2 queue.

To load a port driver on an OS/2 workstation, use the following procedure:

Choose the Novell icon from your desktop.
When you install the NetWare Clients for OS/2, NPRINTER.EXE is available as an icon named ``Network Printer''.
Choose the ``Network Printer'' icon from the Novell---Icon View window on your desktop. Then select the Printers menu from the NPRINTER window.
The ``Load'' and ``Unload'' options are listed.
If the ``Load'' option is grayed out on this menu, it means you already have loaded the maximum number of OS/2 printers (7) allowed. You will need to unload one before you can load another one.
If the ``Unload'' option is grayed out, it means that no port drivers are currently loaded.
Choose Load from the Printers menu.
The ``Load Printers'' dialog box appears with a list of configured printers.
If there are no configured printers on the list, you must define a printer. The following steps describe how to define and add a new printer.
- Choose Define from the Load Printers menu.
  A list of OS/2 printers currently defined on this workstation appears in the ``Define Printers'' dialog box.
- Choose the Add button to define the OS/2 printer you want NPRINTER to load on this workstation.
  The ``Add/Edit Printer'' dialog box appears.
- Type a printer name in the ``Description'' field.
  You must fill in this field.
  We recommend that you use the same name for this OS/2 printer as you assigned to the corresponding NetWare printer. (NetWare printers are defined and configured in NetWare Administrator, or PCONSOLE.)
- Double-click a print server from the ``Print Server Name'' list.
  A list of NetWare printers now appears in the ``Printer Name'' box. These printers are active NetWare printers assigned to the selected print server. They were created with PCONSOLE or NetWare Administrator.
  NOTE: Make sure the NetWare printers are defined as remote connection type. For example, on a parallel printer, the connection type should be ``Manual Load''. Otherwise, the printers will not appear on the list.
- Choose the desired printer by highlighting the name.
  This specifies the NetWare printer for NPRINTER to later load.
- (Optional) Mark the box for ``Load on startup'' if you want NPRINTER to load the printer when NPRINTER is loaded.
- Choose the arrow box to the right of the ``Default OS/2 Print Queue'' and choose an OS/2 print queue.
  NPRINTER requires that an OS/2 print queue exist on the workstation.
- Choose the OK button.
  This OS/2 printer now appears in the ``Define Printers'' dialog box with any other printers currently defined on this workstation.
- (Optional) Repeat the appropriate steps above for each additional printer NPRINTER will load on this workstation.
  You can have up to seven port drivers loaded concurrently.
Highlight the printer to be loaded and select Load.
NOTE: You cannot capture a port that NPRINTER is loaded on. This will intercept jobs that NPRINTER is sending to the port. You can either capture a different port or print directly to the port NPRINTER is loaded on. (The job will be queued by OS/2.)