Microplex M204, Installation And Configuration Manual

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30 CONFIGURING THE M204 FOR TCP/IP: Host Configuration
Host Configuration
When setting up a print destination on a Unix host, you have the option to utilize a
computer-aided script such as ezsetup or npconfig or to do all of the appropriate steps
manually.
If you decide to go with one of the provided installation scripts, select Configure
Host Setup from the Main Menu of either program to configure a print setup on your
host. It will step you through some questions and then perform all of the necessary
setup commands for you. Please see ezsetup and npconfig on page 20 for more infor-
mation on these scripts.
The rest of this section introduces you to different printing methods, with the spooler
and without, and discusses each of the manual steps for these environments:
• BSD,
• System V,
• Sun NeWSprint and Adobe TranScript,
• AIX,
• PC.
Direct Printing Without the Spooler
Before configuring the spooling system, test that basic communications are working
with the M204 and attached printers. Perform tests by sending print jobs directly to
the M204 and bypassing the spooler altogether. You can send print jobs directly to the
M204 with either npwrite or rsh/rcmd/remsh.
The rsh/rcmd/remsh program provides the same functions as the npwrite program
except that the rsh/rcmd/remsh program exits with an error code when the network
connection is down. npwrite continually tries until the job is completed. Remember
this behavior when you are manually modifying your interface script because some
spooler systems simply send a message about the error but the job gets flushed. The
npr.if interface script gives you examples of how this behavior should be handled.
npwrite
The data transfer program npwrite is provided with the host software shipped with the
M204. It sends data to the Print Server over a TCP connection. Data is read from a file