CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 The PrintServer System 1.1 Print Client 1.2 Printer and PrintServer Software 1.3 Supporting Host 1.3.1 PrintServer Client Connections 1.3.2 Primary and Backup Supporting Hosts 1.4 Typical Startup and Printing Sequence 2 PrintServer Operation 2.1 Booting PrintServer Printers 2.2 Establishing the Internet Identity for Mixed Network Environments 2.3 Establishing a Management Client Connection 2.4 Adding Another PrintServer Printer 3 The Management Client 3.1 Requesting Management Client Services 3.2 Management Client Options 3.2.1 Node Name Option (-N) 3.2.2 Configuration Option (-C) 3.2.3 Logging Option (-L) 3.2.4 Accounting Option (-A) 3.2.5 Sample Options File 3.3 Modifying Management Client Options 3.4 Configuration File 3.4.1 Configuration File Commands 3.4.1.1 Accounting 3.4.1.2 Logging 3.4.1.3 Password 3.4.1.4 Language 3.4.1.5 Allowdn 3.4.1.6 Denydn 3.4.1.7 Ipaddress 3.4.1.8 Subnetmask (If Internet Access) 3.4.1.9 Gateway (If Internet Access, Optional) 3.4.1.10 Mask (If Internet Access, Optional) 3.4.1.11 Allowip (If Internet Access) 3.4.1.12 Denyip (If Internet Access) 3.4.2 Modifying the Configuration File 3.5 Defaults File 3.5.1 Sample Defaults File 3.5.2 Modifying the Defaults File 3.5.3 Changing the PostScript Printer Name 3.6 Printer Start Page 3.7 Resource-Loading File 3.7.1 Loading of the ANSI Prologue 3.7.2 Editing the Resource-Loading File 3.7.3 Storing the Resources and the Resource-Loading File 3.8 Setup File 3.8.1 Customizing the Setup File 3.8.2 Sample Setup Files 3.9 Restricting Access to the PrintServer System 3.9.1 Restricted Access Commands 3.9.2 DECnet Access 3.9.3 Internet Access 3.9.4 Access Control in a Mixed Environment 3.10 Distributing Management Client Services 3.10.1 Management Client for Accounting and Logging 3.10.2 Management Client as Configuration Host 3.10.3 Second Supporting Host System 3.11 Switching to an Alternative Supporting Host 3.12 Updating the Network Database 4 The Console Client 4.1 Starting the Console Client 4.2 Displaying Online Documentation 4.3 Console Client Screen Display 4.4 Using Console Client Commands 4.4.1 Entering Console Client Commands 4.4.2 Getting Help on Console Client Commands 4.4.3 Console Client Unprivileged Commands 4.4.3.1 Configuration 4.4.3.2 Exit 4.4.3.3 Jobs or Showq 4.4.3.4 Netstat 4.4.3.5 Permissions 4.4.3.6 Status 4.4.3.7 Versions 4.4.4 Console Client Privileged Commands 4.4.4.1 Abort 4.4.4.2 Accept 4.4.4.3 Continuous 4.4.4.4 Exit 4.4.4.5 Newfile 4.4.4.6 Next 4.4.4.7 Reconfigure 4.4.4.8 Reject 4.4.4.9 Repeat 4.4.4.10 Single 5 Centralized Accounting 5.1 Configuring the PrintServer Printer for Accounting 5.2 Enabling a Management Client for Accounting 5.3 Centralized Accounting Data File 5.4 Creating a New Accounting File 5.5 Running the Centralized Accounting Utility 5.6 Centralized Accounting Utility Reports 5.6.1 Brief Reporting Mode 5.6.2 Verbose Reporting Mode 5.6.3 Selecting Accounting Report Options 5.6.3.1 Omitting Internet Domain Information 5.6.3.2 Omitting Print Client Host Information 5.6.3.3 Calculating Printing Fees with Brief Reporting 5.6.3.4 Calculating Printing Fees with Verbose Reporting 5.6.3.5 Printing Information from a Specific Date A PrintServer System Messages A.1 System Message Overview A.2 Message Descriptions Bad argument argument on line line . . . FileRead lost connection for file: FileWrite can't get buffer: . . . No file server for file-name No log file open . . . $RESOURCES: Invalid resources type on line number $RESOURCES: Invalid resources version on line number . . . write error on file-name B Digital PostScript Printer Software Documentation Glossary access control list . . . client configuration host . . . Internet address LAPS protocol . . . network host network host name . . . PrintServer protocol recto . . . verso write-black . . . write-white EXAMPLES 3-1 Sample Options File 3-2 Sample PrintServer 20 Configuration File 3-3 Sample PrintServer 40 Configuration File 3-4 Defaults File for a PrintServer Printer 3-5 Contents of the LPSRESOURCES.printer-node-name File 3-6 Customized Resource-Loading File 3-7 Sample Setup File 1 3-8 Sample Setup File 2 4-1 PrintServer Console Client Screen Display 4-2 PrintServer Console Client Information 5-1 Sample Accounting File 5-2 Sample Brief Accounting Report 5-3 Sample Verbose Accounting Report 5-4 Omitting Internet Domain Information 5-5 Omitting Print Client Host Information 5-6 Calculating Printing Fees with Brief Reporting 5-7 Calculating Printing Fees with Verbose Reporting 5-8 Printing Information from a Specific Date FIGURES 1-1 Sample Internet PrintServer Configuration 1-2 Sample DECnet PrintServer Configuration 1-3 Sample Mixed Environment PrintServer Configuration 1-4 Software Components of the PrintServer System 1-5 Management Clients and Boot Hosts 3-1 Accounting and Logging Host TABLES 2-1 Maximum Number of Client Connections 3-1 Configuration File Commands 4-1 Unprivileged Console Client Commands 4-2 Privileged Console Client Commands 5-1 Centralized Accounting Data