[K12OSN] Anyone accessing NDPS printers through K12LTSP?

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Guy Lessard wrote:

> I'm being forced by the administration to quit using Jetdirect 
> connexion to the printer, does anyone use NDPS printers and if so how 
> do you do it?
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WARNING:  This is not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully 
it's useful.


Not being familiar with Novell NDS--other than it's a tweak of LDAP--I 
did a little Googling on this subject, and it appears that NDPS is 
basically the Novell equivalent UNIX's "IP Printing" functionality or 
Windows's "TCP/IP Printing" functionality.  In all three cases, 
JetDirect cards or their equivalents are needed.

I don't know if the JetDirect card allows for accepting jobs from only 
certain IP addresses (i. e. certain servers).  If it does, then you can 
filter for just your "print queue" server.  If not, then, unless you 
hang the printer off the LPT port, anyone's going to be able to print to 
your printer via JetDirect anyway, unless your switch supports MAC 
address filtering.  If the switch does, then you can lock the printer's 
switch port down by MAC address. 

In either case, you can indeed set up a "print queue" server to handle 
all user requests instead of having them go directly to the JetDirect 
card.  Matter of fact, you can use your K12LTSP server for this.  :-)  
It's actually quite easy with the Red Hat "printconf" utility (might be 
called "redhat-config-printer" these days).  Then, you'd go to your 
workstations, delete the existing local print queue, and re-make one 
pointing to the K12LTSP server's print queue.  Thus, people aren't going 
directly to the JetDirect card, which hopefully will satisfy your 
administration.

--TP
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