PSERVER(1)

NAME
       pserver - NetWare print server

SYNOPSIS
       pserver  [  -S server ] [ -h ] [ -U user name ] [ -P pass-
       word | -n ] [ -C ] [ -q queue name ] [ -c command ]  [  -j
       job type ] [ -t timeout ] [ -d ]

DESCRIPTION
       pserver is a program that connects to print queues on Net-
       Ware servers and feeds incoming print jobs  to  the  Linux
       printing system.

OPTIONS
       -h
          -h is used to print out a short help text.

       -S server
          server is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user
          user is the print server name at the server.

       -P password
          password is the password to use for the print server at
          the server. If neither -n nor -P  are  given,  and  the
          user  has  no  open  connection  to the server, pserver
          prompts for a password.

       -n
          -n should be given if the print server does not require
          a password.

       -C
          By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before
          they are sent  to  the  server,  because  most  servers
          require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C.

       -q queue name
          queue  name  is the name of the print queue you want to
          service.

       -c command
          When a job is received from the  print  queue,  pserver
          forks  off  a  new  process,  and feeds the job file to
          stdin.  command is the printing command  that  is  exe-
          cuted for each job. The default command is 'lpr'.

          You can insert several flags into the command, preceded
          by %. These are replaced with values retrieved from the
          queue structure for the print job.

          %u: This field will be replaced by the name of the user
          who posted this print job.

       -j job type
          Each job in a NetWare print queue has a job  type.  For
          print  jobs, this corresponds to the number of the form
          the job should be printed on. You can tell pserver that
          it  should only receive jobs for one specific form from
          the queue. The default is -1, which means  that  every-
          thing is received.

       -t timeout
          Pserver  is  not  informed  by NetWare servers when new
          jobs arrive. So a polling scheme has to be  used.  When
          there are no jobs to service, timeout tells pserver how
          long to wait between two requests. The  default  is  30
          seconds.  When a job is finished, pserver asks the Net-
          Ware server immediately for a new  job,  and  does  not
          wait timeout seconds.

       -d
          Normally,  pserver  daemonizes itself.  -d tells it not
          to do so. This is useful if you want to see  the  diag-
          nostic messages that are printed when a error occurs.

SEE ALSO
       nwclient(5) slist(1) pqlist(1) ncpmount(8) 
       ncpumount(8) 

CREDITS
       pserver was written by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-
       goettingen.de)