Hello Reggie,
Am 24.05.2024 um 16:39 schrieb Reggie Monroe via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Yes, I am positive. We have the windows printserver ip address in the /qntc directory on the IBMi and if you drill down, you can see the folders that are being shared from the windows printserver on the AS400.
I understand.
Allow me to correct your sentence. You see the folders that are being shared *from* the Windows print server *to* your IBM i installation.
As said, QNTC is a client thing. I'm becoming more and more confident that you in fact have a Windows print server *not* being the, nor being *on* the IBM i. It's a Windows installation somewhere else. The IBM i is a mere client to said server.
Now, your initial request was, you need to setup another print server. Please clarify what exactly you mean with this term?
A print server is commonly understood as two things:
- A printer-external hardware box, or a plug-in card for a specific printer to give your printer a LAN port.
- A designated server which is a central point to where clients to said server are configured to send print jobs to quickly, so they can be sent one by one to the printer attached to one of the many queues such a print server has.
Both types print servers understand certain protocols for comptatibility with their clients:
- Windows printing, an extension to SMB/CIFS (file sharing),
- lpr and IPP, both coming from the UNIX world, but has been adopted widely for non-Windows environments in general,
- PAP, the Apple flavor of printing protocol. Rarely to bee seen in the wild anymore, these days.
Please clarify what you mean with "setup another print server".
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