Sharing Printers with PSM

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PSM works in two different but related ways. First of all, it allows Mac OS users to print to any printer shared by your Windows 2000 PSM server. As far as the Macintosh users are concerned, any printer (regardless of its native capabilities) shared from your PSM server appears to be a 300 dots-per-inch PostScript level 1 printer. Handily, the PSM service also works in the reverse way: it allows you to capture an AppleTalk network printer so that Windows users can print to a queue on the Windows 2000 Server and have their jobs go to the AppleTalk printer—without putting AppleTalk on the clients themselves.

Before You Install PSM

As was mentioned earlier, in the section "Setting Up File and Print Services," the best way to install PSM is to first install, configure, and test the AppleTalk protocol. Once you're confident that it's working properly, the next step is to create a user account for the PSM service. FSM doesn't need its own account, since permissions are already set on the files and folders it makes available to Macintosh users. However, to control printing you'll need to have a separate account to which you can assign permissions. Use the tools discussed in Chapter 9 to create a new user to be used exclusively with PSM and then follow these steps to configure the PSM service to use this account instead of the default LocalSystem credentials.

  1. Open the Computer Management snap-in from an MMC console.
  2. Switch to the Services view.
  3. Find the Print Server for Macintosh service, right-click it, and choose Properties.
  4. In the PSM Properties window, click the Log On tab and then click the This Account option. The account and password controls become active. Select the PSM account you created, enter its password in the appropriate fields, and then click OK.

Sharing a Printer for Macintosh Users

The first step in creating a printer to which Mac OS users can print is to create a shared printer, either by creating a new printer from scratch using the Add Printer Wizard (discussed in Chapter 8) or by sharing an existing printer.

If you want to share an existing printer that's already attached to your Windows 2000 server, just switch to the Sharing tab of its Properties window, select the Shared As option, and give the shared printer a name. If you're creating a new printer, the process is slightly more complicated.

  1. Start the Add Printer Wizard by double-clicking the Add Printer icon in the Printers folder. When the wizard appears, click Next to move on to the next page.
  2. On the next screen of the wizard, select the Local Printer option and, if appropriate, select the Plug And Play Detection check box. Click Next.
  3. On the Select The Printer Port screen of the wizard (Figure 22-13), select the Create A New Port option and then choose AppleTalk Printing Devices from the Type list. Click Next.
  4. click to view at full size.

    Figure 22-13. The Select The Printer Port screen of the Add Printer Wizard.

  5. The wizard pops up an AppleTalk browser that works much like the standard My Computer browser you're already accustomed to. Search through the AppleTalk zones on your network until you find the printer you want to use, select it, and click OK in the browser.
  6. Complete the Add Printer Wizard by naming your new printer (using a name that's less than 32 characters long) and being sure to share the printer when prompted.

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As part of the configuration process, you can set restrictions on who can use the printer (with the Security tab of the printer's Properties window) or on when and how it can be used (with the Advanced tab).

Once you've taken these steps, the newly created shared printer will be available to Macintosh users as soon as the PSM service is stopped and restarted.

Capturing Existing AppleTalk Printers

Capturing an AppleTalk printer has two side effects. The first is that Mac OS users can no longer print directly to the captured device—that's what capturing does. The second is that any user, Mac OS or Windows, of the PSM server will be able to print to the captured device, providing you've shared it. To capture an existing AppleTalk printer, you must first create a shared printer to represent it on the Windows 2000 Server by doing the following:

  1. Create a new shared printer using the Add Printer Wizard. Tell the wizard that the printer is attached locally.
  2. Switch to the Ports tab of the printer's Properties window and click the Add Port button.
  3. When the Printer Ports dialog box appears, choose AppleTalk Printing Devices from the Create A New Port list and then click the New Port button.
  4. The AppleTalk Printing Devices browser appears. Choose the AppleTalk zone that contains the printer you want to capture and then click OK.

If you want to release a captured printer or recapture one that's been released, you can do so with the Ports tab of the printer's Properties window. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Select the target printer, open its Properties window, and then switch to the Ports tab.
  2. On the Ports tab, click the Configure Port button.
  3. Select or clear the Capture This AppleTalk Printing Device check box.
  4. Stop and restart the PSM service.

Remember, a captured device is available to Windows and Mac OS users who print only to the corresponding queue on your Windows 2000 PSM Server; an uncaptured or released AppleTalk printer is available only to clients that speak AppleTalk.



Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion, Vol. 1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrators Companion (IT-Administrators Companion)
ISBN: 1572318198
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 366

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