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PAS UNIX Print Server
Version 2.5.2
Installation Guide
Equitrac Corp.
450 Phillip Street
Waterloo, ON
N2L 5J2 Canada
450 Phillip Street
Waterloo, ON
N2L 5J2 Canada
http://www.metrics.com
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PAS UNIX Print Server: Installation Guide
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Contents
1.
PAS UNIX overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 What the PAS UNIX print server supports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 What the PAS UNIX print server does not support . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.3 Server licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.4 The PAS UNIX print server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.1 What the PAS UNIX print server supports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 What the PAS UNIX print server does not support . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.3 Server licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.4 The PAS UNIX print server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2
The Software Metrics (SM) print server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.1 Printer control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.2 Printer tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.3 Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.4 Interaction with UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2.1 Printer control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.2 Printer tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.3 Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.4 Interaction with UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3
System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.1 On the UNIX server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.2 On the PAS accounting server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.3 On the Windows management workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3.1 On the UNIX server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.2 On the PAS accounting server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.3 On the Windows management workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1
AIX installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2
HP-UX installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3
Linux installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4
Solaris installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.
Configuring printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.1
Creating printers on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2
Creating printers on HP-UX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3
Creating printers on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4
Creating printers on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.5
Printer registration errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.
Configuring PAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.1
On the network workstations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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PAS UNIX Print Server: Installation Guide
Appendix A: Installed files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appendix B:Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Appendix C:License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31