Re: Create a new Windows print server

If your printer is connected to the PC via ethernet, you probably only need
to configure the printer in the IBM i and it will be available to all the
windows machines as well as the IBM i.
Also, you will be able to print from the IBM i even if the windows machine
is not on.


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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".

:wq! PoC



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