Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition

Printing to a NetWare Print Queue

The ncpfs package contains a small utility called nprint that sends print jobs across an NCP connection to a NetWare print queue. This command creates the connection if it doesn’t currently exist and uses the ~/.nwclient file that we described earlier to hide the username and password from prying eyes. The command-line arguments used to manage the login process are the same as those used by the ncpmount, so we won’t go through those again here. We will cover the most important command-line options in our examples; refer to the nprint(1) manual page for details.

The only required option for nprint is the name of the file to print. If the filename specified is - or if no filename is specified at all, nprint will accept the print job from stdin. The most important nprint options specify the fileserver and print queue to which you wish the job to be sent. Table 15.4 lists the most important options.

Table 15-4. nprint Command-Line Options

Option	Description
-S server_name	The name of the NetWare fileserver supporting the print queue to which you wish to print. Usually it is convenient for the server to have an entry in ~/.nwclient. This option is mandatory.
-q queue_name	The print queue to which to send the print job. This option is mandatory.
-d job_description	Text that will appear in the print console utility when displaying the list of queued jobs.
-l lines	The number of lines per printed page. This defaults to 66.
-r columns	The number of columns ...