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5. Once your computer is rebooted, open the Settings:Printers folder to view
your existing printers.
6. Select the printer that you want to use with PPS and click the right mouse
button to bring up a sub-menu.
7. Select “Properties” from this menu to display the current settings for this
printer.
8. Click on the “Details” tab to display the printer port settings.
9. Click on the ADD PORT button.
10. At the “Add Port” dialogue box that displays, click on the button labeled
“Other.”
11. Click on “TCP/IP Printer Port” within the Other list.
12. At the next dialogue box that displays, fill in the host name or IP address
of the LineJet Print Server in the first field.
13. Fill in a valid TCP port number on the LineJet Print Server in the second
field. The choice is
4400 or 9100 for PRN.
14. Click OK when done to return to the “Details” window. You should now
see something relating to “PPS Port” within the “Print to the following
port:” field.
15. Click OK to close this printer properties window.
You now have a new network printer which relies on PPS to print remotely to
a printer off of the LineJet Print Server.
Windows 3.1 Host Setup
If you are running Windows 3.1 stations on your network, you will need to rely
on either TCP/IP or IPX to print to the LineJet Print Server. If IPX is used, you
will have a print queue defined on a Novell file server to which your Windows
3.1 stations will send their print jobs. The LineJet Print Server will then service
this print queue as either a PSERVER or an RPRINTER. Please see Chapter
10, “Novell Configuration” for additional details.
If you want to rely on TCP/IP, you will need a third party TCP stack loaded
onto your Windows station since TCP/IP support did not automatically come
with Windows until the introduction of Windows NT and Windows 95. You
may also be running a third party stack if you decided not to use a Microsoft
operating system.
Some common TCP stacks are FTP Software's
OnNet, NetManager's
Chameleon, and Frontier Technologies'
SuperTCP. In each case, they allow
your Windows 3.1 station to communicate with other TCP/IP devices. This
means you can send print jobs to the LineJet Print Server as well.
Note PPS will only work with an existing printer. Therefore, if you do not have an
existing printer that you can alter, create one now using any port settings
you would like. These will be changed in the following steps.
