Brother: NDPS Gateway for Novell Gateway®

Section 6: Adding Brother Drivers to the NDPS Broker (RMS - Resource Management Services)

Before creating an NDPS Printer Agent, the drivers must be added to the NetWarer server. To download the Brother Printer Drivers, click here and select your model name.

To add new resources to the Resource Management Service database, do the following:

Make sure the Resource Management Service is enabled.
Open the Broker Object's main window in NetWare Administrator.

Select the Resource Management view.

Figure 1 NDPS Broker

The Resource Management dialog appears. Select the Add Resources button.

When the Manage Resources dialog appears, select the icon for the type of driver you want to add. This will be a 3.1x, 95/98 or NT4 driver for NetWare 5. If you are using NDPS version 1 with NetWare 4.x only 3.1x and 95/98 options will be available. NDPS version 2 for NetWare 4.x will support NT drivers automatic download.

Figure 2 Adding Driver Resources to the Broker

A complete list of currently loaded resources of that type appears in the Current Resources window. Click the Add button.

The Add <resource type> dialog appears. The listed resources that appear on this screen are currently installed.

Press the Browse button to locate the driver you want to add to the list. The driver list appears possibly showing several printers. This should be the driver in the different languages supported and unfortunately you cannot be selective about which language you want from the INF file, it sets up all of them. Furthermore, it does not distinguish which language is which. In the case of the NC-8000 Printer server only one driver will be presented.

Figure 3 Adding Driver Resources to NDPS

Note:

Resources cannot be installed from multiple floppy disks. If a printer driver or other resource is shipped on more than one disk, copy the files to a directory on a hard drive or network drive and install it from there.

Although NDS objects do not represent public access printers, you can manage these printers with the same utility you use to manage NDS objects--the NWAdmin utility. From the Tools pull-down menu, you select the Public Access Printers option to manage a particular public access printer. The Public Access Printers option is one of several options included in the NDPS snap-in modules for the NWAdmin utility. These snap-in modules are installed automatically when you install NDPS.

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