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Sun détient une licence non exclusive de Xerox sur l’interface d’utilisation graphique Xerox, cette licence couvrant également les licenciés de Sun qui mettent en place l’interface d’utilisation graphique OPEN LOOK et qui en outre se conforment aux licences écrites de Sun. CETTE PUBLICATION EST FOURNIE “EN L’ETAT” ET AUCUNE GARANTIE, EXPRESSE OU IMPLICITE, N’EST ACCORDEE, Y COMPRIS DES GARANTIES CONCERNANT LA VALEUR MARCHANDE, L’APTITUDE DE LA PUBLICATION A REPONDRE A UNE UTILISATION PARTICULIERE, OU LE FAIT QU’ELLE NE SOIT PAS CONTREFAISANTE DE PRODUIT DE TIERS. CE DENI DE GARANTIE NE S’APPLIQUERAIT PAS, DANS LA MESURE OU IL SERAIT TENU JURIDIQUEMENT NUL ET NON AVENU. Please Recycle Contents About This Book 31 1. Managing Printing Services Topics 37 2. Print Management (Overview) 39 What’s New in Printing? 39 Solaris Print Manager 39 Print Naming Enhancement 40 Enabling or Disabling Banner Page Printing 41 Printing in the Solaris Operating Environment 41 Choosing a Method to Manage Printers 42 The LP Print Service 43 Managing Network Printers 43 Administering Printers 44 Setting Definitions for Printers 44 Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts 44 Customizing the LP Print Service 44 The Solaris Print Client-Server Process 45 The Print Client Process 45 Using Print Clients 45 Printer Configuration Resources 46 3 Using Print Servers 49 3. Planning Printers on Your Network (Overview) 51 Distributing Printers on the Network 51 Assigning Print Servers and Print Clients 52 Print Server Requirements and Recommendations 53 Spooling Space 53 Disk Space 53 Memory 54 Swap Space 54 Hard Disk 54 Planning for Printer Setup 54 Setting Definitions for Printers 55 Selecting a Printer Type 58 Selecting a File Content Type 59 4. Setting Up Printers (Tasks) 63 Setting Up Printing 63 Setting Up Printing Task Map 64 Setting Up a Printer With Solaris Print Manager 65 Starting Solaris Print Manager 66 r How to Start Solaris Print Manager 66 Setting Up a Print Server 69 r How to Add a New Attached Printer With Solaris Print Manager 70 Setting Up a Print Client 72 r How to Add Printer Access With Solaris Print Manager 72 Setting Up a .printers File 73 r How to Set Up a .printers File 73 Adding a Network Printer 74 Printer Vendor Supplied Software for Network Printers 75 4 System Administration Guide, Volume 2 ♦ February 2000 Sun Support for Network Printers 76 Invoking the Network Printer Support 76 Selecting the Protocol 76 Selecting the Printer Node Name 77 Selecting the Destination (or Network Printer Access) Name 77 Setting the Timeout Value 78 Managing Network Printer Access 78 r How to Add a Network Printer Using Printer Vendor Supplied Tools 79 r How To Add A Network Printer Using LP Commands 79 Converting Printer Configuration Information 83 Converting Printer Configuration Information Task Map 83 Converting Existing Printer Configuration Information 84 r How to Convert Printer Information For a System Running the SunOS 5.5.1 Release 85 r How to Convert Printer Information For a System Running the SunOS 4.1 Release 85 How to Convert Printer Configuration Information in NIS+ (+xfn) to NIS+ Format 86 5. Administering Printers (Tasks) 87 Managing Printers and the Print Scheduler 88 Deleting Printers and Printer Access 88 r How to Delete a Printer and Remote Printer Access 88 Checking Printer Status 91 r How to Check the Status of Printers 91 Restarting the Print Scheduler 93 r How to Stop the Print Scheduler 93 r How to Restart the Print Scheduler 94 Setting or Resetting Miscellaneous Printer Definitions 94 r How to Add a Printer Description 94 Contents 5 Setting Up a Default Printer Destination 95 r How to Set a System’s Default Printer 96 Printing Banner Pages 96 r How to Make Banner Pages Optional 97 r How to Turn Off Banner Pages 98 Setting Up Printer Classes 99 r How to Define a Class of Printers 100 Setting Up Printer Fault Alerts 100 r How to Set Fault Alerts for a Printer 101 Setting Up Printer Fault Recovery 102 r How to Set Printer Fault Recovery 104 Limiting User Access to a Printer 104 r How to Limit User Access to a Printer 106 Managing Print Requests 107 r How to Check the Status of Print Requests 108 Processing or Stopping Printing 110 r How to Accept or Reject Print Requests for a Printer 110 Accepting or Rejecting Print Requests 111 r How to Enable or Disable a Printer 113 Canceling a Print Request 114 r How to Cancel a Print Request 114 r How to Cancel a Print Request From a Specific User 115 Moving a Print Request 116 r How to Move Print Requests to Another Printer 117 Changing the Priority of Print Requests 118 r How to Change the Priority of a Print Request 118 6. Managing Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks) 121 Managing Character Sets 122 6 System Administration Guide, Volume 2 ♦ February 2000 Selectable Character Sets 122 Hardware-Mounted Character Sets 123 Tracking Print Wheels 124 Alerts for Mounting Print Wheels or Cartridges 124 r How to Define a Print Wheel or Font Cartridge 124 r How to Unmount and Mount a Print Wheel or Font Cartridge 125 r How to Set an Alert to Mount a Print Wheel or Font Cartridge 126 r How to Set Up an Alias for a Selectable Character Set 128 Managing Print Filters