4.3 Configuring the Network Interface Board
NetWare Configuration
4-9
Repeat steps 5 through 11 for each file server that the print server services.
To view, add, delete, or modify print servers or queues after the initial setup, select
either
Print Queues
or
Print Servers
on the Available Options menu.
4.3 Configuring the Network Interface Board
NDS offers a more advanced approach to network management than previous NetWare
versions. It stores and tracks all network objects. As a rule, all 4.
x
and 5.
x
servers must
have NDS loaded in order to function. In this way, every NetWare 4.
x
or 5.
x
server is a
directory server, because it services named directory objects such as printers, print servers,
and print queues. With the appropriate privileges, you can create a print server object
which, once configured in its context (or location) on the network, eliminates the
cumbersome setup of print servers on
every
network server. NDS provides true enterprise
networking based on a shared network database rather than an individually defined
physical site. The result is greatly improved print server setup and management.
The Directory Information Base (DIB) stores information about servers and services,
users, printers, gateways, and so on. It is a distributed database, allowing access to data
anywhere on the network wherever it is stored. NetWare versions earlier than 4.
x
provide
the same data found in the DIB, but the NetWare Bindery stores the data. The DIB was
designed with more flexible access and more specific security; moreover, since it is
distributed, it was designed to be partitioned. The DIB uses an object-oriented structure
rather than the flat-file structure of the Bindery, and offers network-oriented access rather
than the server-oriented access found in the Bindery.
The DIB is backward-compatible with the NetWare Bindery through Bindery Emulation
Mode.
Section
4.2 Configuring NetWare Bindery Emulation
describes Print Server
Operation with a NetWare 4.
x
system in Bindery Emulation Mode. When Bindery
Emulation is enabled, Directory Services accept Bindery requests and respond as if a
Bindery exists on the NetWare server being accessed. Information obtained from the
Bindery query may not be stored in the server because the DIB is a partitioned and
distributed database. Even though the NetWare 4.
x
server is not operating from a Bindery,
the applications making Bindery requests do not know the difference.
You can use NWADMIN to configure the printer in NDS. Before you can print, NDS must
be set up as described in the following sections and the Network Interface Board must be
set up with NDS Context and Tree. See
Section
4.4 Configuring the Network Interface
Board
.
The following sections describe using NWADMIN to create printer, print server, and print
queue objects. You can assign or associate these objects with each other. You can keep
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