Using PCONSOLE in Bindery Mode

You can add a NetWare Services server and NetWare Services clients to your network and still retain your existing NetWare 3x PSERVER.EXE and NetWare 3x environment.

If you use PCONSOLE from NetWare Services and use bindery mode, you define objects that a bindery-based print server knows how to access for configuration information upon loading.
If you use the Directory Services mode to configure the information, you define objects that a Directory Services-based print server knows how to access for configuration information when loading.

To change between Directory Services and bindery modes, press <F4> at the "Available Options" menu. The last menu option in bindery mode changes to "Change Current NetWare Server" from "Change Context."

Using Quick Setup to Create Bindery Printing Objects

The "Quick Setup" option can be used to create printing objects in bindery mode as well as Directory Services mode. For instructions on setting up network printing in Directory Services mode with this option, see "Using Quick Setup in PCONSOLE" in this chapter.

When you use "Quick Setup" in bindery mode, you can attach to a bindery- based server or get a bindery attachment to a NetWare Services server. Either way, you get the following items created and tied together:

A print server created in SYS:SYSTEM directory of the current server, with a hexadecimal directory (such as SYS:SYSTEM\FA010002), that contains the following four hidden files:
PRINT.000 (printer configuration information)
DESCRIPT (description information)
NOTIFY.000 (Notify list)
QUEUE.000 (queue serviced by printer information)
A printer created in the print server subdirectory (such as, the PRINT.000 file in SYS:SYSTEM\FA010002) (Non-D.S. object).
A queue created in SYS:SYSTEM directory of the current server, with a hexadecimal directory (such as, SYS:SYSTEM\7701000F.QDR), that has two "Hidden" files in it. In the example above, the files would be named Q_0177.SRV and Q_0177.SYS.

Use Bindery mode on a NetWare Services server if you want to load a bindery-based print server (such as pserver on a NetWare 3x file server) that is servicing queues on a NetWare Services server. This means the NetWare 3x pserver or other bindery based print server has to access the queue and the notification information on each server that it is servicing queues from.

If you need to load pserver on a NetWare Services server, use only the Directory Services mode when defining printing objects.

See "Using Quick Setup in PCONSOLE" for instructions on using this Quick Setup feature.




	NOTE: If you use bindery mode to configure the print server, printer, and queue (such as with Quick Setup), and then try to view the printer information in Directory Services mode, you will not see the printer because no Directory Services Printer object was created. You must switch PCONSOLE into the mode in which the Printer object was created in order to view or manage that object.

Using PCONSOLE in Bindery Mode

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