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Management of network printing is complex, and printers themselves are more complicated. Instead of having printer configuration and information scattered over client systems and printer servers, they can be stored and managed from a single repository. LDAP is suited to build a backend printer configuration database. LDAP-UX enables the centralized management of printers, and the printer entries can easily be distributed to clients to reduce concerns about synchronization of configuration information. LDAP-UX comes with a printer configurator to consolidate printer configuration and control of printer devices into the LDAP Directory Server for a central location of printer management.

Definitions

Printer Services

HP-UX provides Line Printer Spooling System (LP spooler) to manage printers and print services requests. LP spooler is a set of programs, shell scripts, and directories that control your printers and the flow of data going to them. The LP spooler programs consist of commands such as lpadmin, rlpdaemon programs, and lp command.

Printing Protocol

The LP spooler system has built-in support for sending jobs to other hosts that running rlpdaemon. rlpdaemon is a line printer daemon (LPD) for handling remote spool requests. This feaure enables the user to install a printer on one host and make it accessible from other hosts. It also works with printers/printservers that have network interfaces that support the LDP protocol. The LPD network printing protocol is the widely used network printing protocol in the UNIX world.

LP Printer types

The LP spooler supports the following three types of printers:

  • A network printer which is a printer connected to a network interface or printserver.

  • A remote printer is a printer configured on a system other than the one you are logged into when you submit a print request.

  • A local printer which is a printer that is directly connected to your system.

NOTE: The LDAP printer configurator only supports the HP LP spooler system, remote printers, network printers and printerservers that support Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol. It does not support local printers.


Chapter 5 LDAP Printer Configurator Support
  		 


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