PSF/6000 functions and printing capabilities
ITEM: RTA000087692
Q:
ABSTRACT: PSF/6000 functions and printing capabilities
ENVIRONMENT:
SEARCH ARG: PSF/6000 printer sharing; AFP Driver w/ PSF/6000
TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
AFP
PSF6000
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A couple questions for a PSF/6000 installation??
A customer has 1 3935 and is getting the second one shortly, the person
at the customer site is an ex-IBMer who was familiar with doing print
sharing. At the 3820 in his branch, if one of the printers was busy it
would automatically route the print to the second printer sitting right
next to the other. The customer did not have to bother selecting which
printer to print to; the queue would determine which printer it sent the
print job to. Is there any way to accomplish this with the 3935s at this
customers site which has PSF/6000 v1.2??
Also, I thought someone told me they were able to print from Windows
or OS/2 applications to their RS/6000 and print through PSF/6000. How
could this be accomplished. We've attempted it with the Windows and OS/2
drivers and can not do it in one step, it has to be a multiple step
process. Which is fine for operations, but not the end users. Does any
one have a work around?? Is there a way to route print from the applic.
on a network to the RS/6000 and then redirect through PSF to the
printers??
A:
Please see ASKQ item RTA000087395 about balancing workload between two
printers using a single queue. If that doesn't answer your question,
let me know.
As for your question regarding routing output from Windows, you have
received a note under separate cover. To summarize, one thing to check
would be the ability of the TCP/IP program on the Windows workstation to
associate an LPT port with a remote host and printer attached via
TCP/IP. I know this can be be done under TCP/IP for OS/2 (LPRMON or
LPRPORTD, although I'm out of the office and can't check my notes for
possible limitations or test it. I know that PSF/2 only works with one
of the two; see various ASKQ items.) So if they have TCP/IP on each
of the Windows workstations from which they're trying to use the driver,
I would check the capabilities of that TCP/IP program with that vendor.
If they have a LAN Server network, then there is now a LAN Server for
AIX program announced late last year. Although it has not been tested
yet with PSF/6000, the information in the LAN Server for AIX
announcement letter says that clients can access normal AIX resources
for printing and files; to me that means they can place jobs on the
AIX spool. Since PSF/6000 runs as a backend to the AIX spool, we
should be able to set up queues to work with this just fine. If you
like, reopen this item and I can requeue this question to the ASKQ
queue for AIX LAN Server and get their comments.
At any rate, you probably do have alternatives to creating a file and
then FTPing it over to the RISC where PSF/6000 is running, but you'll
need to know if your customer has TCP/IP on each Windows workstation,
and if so whose, and can it associate a DOS printer port with a remote
TCP/IP host and print queue similar to that which OS/2 TCP/IP can do?
Or AIX Connections or TotalNet from Syntax may be an option.
Closing...
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX PSF/6000 WINDOWS AFP DRIVER BALANCING WORKLOAD SHARING psf/aix
totalnet
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Dated: 03/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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