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System Administration and Operations Guide for Windows NT Version 1.2 Pub# 613P07290 July 1998 Xerox Corporation 701 South Aviation Boulevard El Segundo, CA 90245 Publication #613P07290 Copyright 1997-1998 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Portions of this software also include copywritten software modules from Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Raima Corporation. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen, such as icons, screen displays, looks, etc. Xerox, The Document Company, the stylized X, and all Xerox product names mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Xerox Corporation. Sun, SPARCstation, NIS, NIS+, OpenWindows, and Solaris are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Microsoft, Windows NT, Windows 95, and LAN Manager are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Digital is a registered trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Incorporated. Common Desktop Environment is a copyright of the Common Operating System Environment. Other product names used herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Changes are periodically made to this document. Changes, technical inaccuracies, and typographic errors will be corrected in subsequent editions. Printed in the United States of America. Table of contents 1. About this guide 1-1 Audience 1-1 Conventions used in this manual 1-1 Related publications 1-2 2. PrintXchange overview 2-1 Concepts and terminology 2-1 PrintXchange features and benefits 2-3 PrintXchange printing system components 2-15 Interoperability 2-22 Multinational considerations 2-24 3. System requirements 3-1 Software requirements 3-1 Network requirements 3-2 Hardware requirements 3-2 4. Recommended configuration planning 4-1 Configuration roadmap 4-1 5. Planning a PrintXchange installation 5-1 Determining components, objects, and end-user privileges 5-1 6. Installing and setting up PrintXchange on a server machine 6-1 Overview of the CD contents 6-1 Overview of the installation and set-up process for Windows NT Server 6-2 Installing Windows NT gateways from the Solaris Server package 6-33 Validating your PrintXchange installation 6-41 Using the setup PrintXchange tool 6-45 Uninstalling PrintXchange from a server machine 6-56 PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS 7. Installing and setting up PrintXchange on a client machine 7-1 Overview of the CD contents 7-1 Overview of the installation and set-up process 7-2 Post-installation 7-11 Using the PrintXchange Client Setup tool 7-11 Uninstalling PrintXchange from a client machine 7-13 8. Managing security 8-1 Name Services 8-1 PrintXchange Name Service properties setup 8-9 Security 8-10 Access Control Lists (ACLs) 8-17 File transfer 8-23 9. Setting event notification 9-1 Event notification 9-1 Notification server 9-8 Specifying profiles 9-8 10. Configuring, starting and stopping servers 10-1 Creating and configuring servers 10-1 Preprocessor and PDL guesser 10-5 11. Creating, configuring and enabling queues, physical and logical printers 11-1 Creating queues 11-1 Creating and configuring physical printers 11-3 Creating and configuring logical printers 11-10 Enabling and testing your PrintXchange system 11-16 12. Using the CLI and GUI 12-1 Command Line Interface (CLI) 12-1 CLI syntax 12-4 Summary of command options 12-5 Graphical user interface 12-7 13. Getting status of PrintXchange objects 13-1 Understanding object states 13-2 Listing object attributes 13-6 iv PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT TABLE OF CONTENTS 14. Managing jobs and documents 14-1 Printing jobs and documents 14-2 Printing a jobs after a specified time 14-5 Holding and releasing jobs 14-7 Pausing and resuming jobs 14-9 Retaining jobs 14-11 Modifying job and document attributes 14-14 Setting job priorities 14-16 Resubmitting jobs to a logical printer 14-18 Deleting job and document defaults 14-21 Modifying default job priorities 14-22 Promoting jobs 14-22 Modifying default job priorities 14-22 Deleting jobs 14-24 Canceling jobs 14-25 Discarding jobs with print deadlines 14-27 Listing a job queue 14-29 Listing names and attributes of jobs and documents 14-31 Removing all jobs from a server or queue – Cleaning objects 14-33 15. Setting and modifying object attributes 15-1 CLI modification operators 15-2 Allowed attributes for set and modify 15-3 Setting mapping attributes 15-19 Setting xxx-supported and xxx-ready attributes 15-22 Updating the OID database 15-30 16. Pausing and resuming objects 16-1 Pausing and resuming PrintXchange objects 16-2 Pausing spoolers 16-3 Resuming spoolers 16-4 Pausing queues 16-5 Resuming queues 16-6 Pausing physical printers 16-7 Resuming physical printers 16-8 PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT v TABLE OF CONTENTS 17. Enabling and disabling objects 17-1 Enabling and disabling PrintXchange objects 17-2 Enabling spoolers and supervisors 17-3 Disabling spoolers and supervisors 17-4 Enabling queues 17-5 Disabling queues 17-5 Enabling physical printers 17-6 Disabling physical printers 17-7 Enabling logical printers 17-8 Disabling logical printers 17-9 18. Removing (deleting) objects 18-1 Removing (deleting) PrintXchange objects 18-1 Deleting a spooler 18-3 Deleting a supervisor 18-4 Deleting a queue 18-5 Deleting a physical printer 18-6 Deleting a logical printer 18-8 Deleting an initial-value-job 18-9 Deleting an initial-value-document 18-9 19. Creating accounting reports 19-1 Enabling accounting 19-2 Accounting profile 19-3 Using the account report writer 19-5 20. Inbound gateways 20-1 Inbound gateways 20-2 LAN Manager inbound gateway 20-10 NetWare QServer inbound gateway 20-16 NetWare client optional features 20-29 LPR inbound gateway 20-30 21. Managing printed output 21-1 Requesting a specific output device 21-1 Specifying number of copies 21-1 Specifying highlight color 21-2 vi PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT TABLE OF CONTENTS Specifying separator pages 21-3 Specifying media, input trays, and output bins 21-6 Specifying finishing 21-6 Resetting the printer 21-7 22. Troubleshooting 22-1 Troubleshooting introduction 22-1 System logging 22-10 Restrictions for e-mail notification on Windows NT 22-24 Message descriptions 22-26 Crash recovery 22-150 Appendices A. Printers data sheets A-1 B. Server startup commands, switches and status exit codes B-1 C. Working with object databases C-1 D. SNMP query support D-1 Glossary of terms and abbreviations Index PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT vii TABLE OF CONTENTS viii PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT 1. About this guide The PrintXchange System Administration and Operations Guide for Windows NT describes the tasks required to: Plan the configuration Install the software Configure the system Operate the system. This chapter introduces the audience, organization of the content, and conventions used in this manual. The chapter also includes a list of additional PrintXchange documentation. Audience The intended audience for the guide includes:: System administrators, responsible for managing the printing system environment; and Operators, responsible for running day-to-day operations. Conventions used in this manual The second person (“you”) is primarily used in this manual to address all users. “User” refers in general to system administrators, operators, and end users alike, and is used whenever the topic deals with general PrintXchange functions, such as “end user.” “End user” refers to any person other than the system administrator or operator, and is used whenever the topic deals with a particular system administrator function, such as defining end user privileges. Attributes are written in bold letters. Example: initial-value-job CLI commands, in examples, are written in plain text. Elsewhere, they are bold, italic. Example: The pdenable command creates an object... Variable names are written in italic. Example: [spooler_name:]job_identifier.doc_integer Text or characters that you type, such as examples of CLI commands, are written in courier new font. Example: Pdenable –h PRINTXCHANGE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS GUIDE FOR WINDOWS NT 1-1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE Related publications In addition to this guide, the following PrintXchange publications are available: PrintXchange System Administration and Operations Guide for UNIX This guide explains explaining installation and day-to-day management of the PrintXchange system in the UNIX environment. It is primarily intended for administrator and operator use. PrintXchange Command Line Interface Reference Guide This guide provides information on maintaining and operating the PrintXchange system using the Command Line Interface (CLI). It is primarily intended for system administrator use and access to advanced printing functions. PrintXchange Command Line Interface User Guide for Windows NT This guide provides information on submitting jobs to your printer using the command line on your workstation. It is available to CLI users in the Windows NT environment. PrintXchange Command Line Interface User Guide for UNIX This guide provides information on submitting jobs to your printer using the command line on your workstation. It is available to CLI users in the UNIX environment. PrintXchange Windows NT Help These are on-line help files that provide information on PrintXchange functionality. It is available to Windows NT users. PrintXchange UNIX CDE Help These are on-line help files that provide information on PrintXchange functionality. It is available to UNIX users. PrintXchange UNIX MAN pages This is a quick reference for information on PrintXchange commands.