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Agent. The following figure illustrates the communication flow
between these objects.
Communication flow
Note: While this diagram illustrates the NDPS Gateway,
Broker/Manager and Printer Agent as distinct objects, they
are actually all NLM applications residing on the NetWare
file server.
1 The NetWare printer can be discovered in two ways:
w The printer is automatically discovered by the TOSHIBA
NDPS Gateway.
w You add it manually to the NDPS Manager, which resides
on the same NetWare file server as the TOSHIBA NDPS
Gateway.
2 When an end-user attempts to add a NDPS printer, the client
queries the NDPS Brokers to identify all available NDPS
printers.
3 The NDPS Broker responds with a list of NDPS Printer
Agents. The user selects a Printer Agent and the TOSHIBA
NDPS Gateway downloads the appropriate driver to the
user’s desktop.
