Server Admin 10.4 Help

Adding a Print Queue

You can share any printer that has a queue set up for it on the server. You create queues for shared printers on the server using Server Admin.

  1. In Server Admin, select Print in the Computers & Services list.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Click Queues.
  4. Click the Add (+) button (below the list).

    If you don't see the Queues button, you might already be looking at queue settings. Click the Back button (the left-pointing arrow in the upper right).

  5. Choose the protocol used by the printer from the pop-up menu.
    1. For an AppleTalk printer, select the printer in the list and click OK.
    2. For an LPR printer, type the printer IP address or DNS name and click OK.

      If you don't want to use the printer's default queue, first deselect "Use default queue on server" and type a queue name.

    3. For an Open Directory printer, select the printer in the list and click OK.
  6. In the Queues pane, double-click the queue you have just added.
  7. In the General pane, type the queue name you want clients to see in the Sharing Name field.

    Make sure the name is compatible with any naming restrictions imposed by your clients. For example, some LPR clients do not support names that contain spaces, and some Windows clients restrict names to 12 characters.

    Queue names shared via LPR or SMB/CIFS should not contain characters other than A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and _ (underscore).

    AppleTalk queue names cannot be longer than 32 bytes (which may be fewer than 32 typed characters). Note that the queue name is encoded according to the language used on the server and may not be readable on client computers using another language.

    Note: Changing the Sharing Name also changes the queue name that appears in Printer Setup Utility on the server.

  8. Select the protocols used for printing by your client computers.

    If you select "SMB", make sure you start Windows services.

  9. Select "Enforce quotas for this queue" if you want to enforce the print quotas you establish for users in Workgroup Manager.
  10. Select a cover sheet you would like the printer to create by selecting a title from the pop-up menu. If you don't want the server to create a cover sheet for each job printed, select "none".
  11. Click Save, then click the Back button (in the upper left).
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