iPrint and Console 1

[dleggett]

I may be in the wrong forum, if so could some please point me to the right direction? We are needing to setup some printers for Console 1. In the past we were able to do this through NWAdmin before we upgraded to ZenWorks. We were told that we should be using Console 1 from now on out. Well, I went to iManage, then iPrint, create my printers and now I am stuck. I cannot get the printers out to my users. I have the iPrint client on my workstation and was unable to add the printer this way, is there a step that I am missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[marvhuffaker]

Create a zenworks policy that deploys the printers you want, then associate it to the container, groups, or users you want to get the printers. Do this in ConsoleOne.. You need the ZEN snapins, and also assumes you have iPrint setup correctly with drivers for whatever OS the users are running. Also assumes they have the ZEN agent on their workstation.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc.
A Novell Platinum Partner

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[Provogeek]

I assume:

You have configured your NDPS Broker
You have configured your NDPS Manager
You have configured the printers to use IP
You have configured the printers to use the Novell Gateway
Apache is listening on port 636
You have uploaded the printer drivers to the Broker
You can go to

http://<serverip>/ipp

and get a list of your iPrint enabled printers and install them from there.

(lets not worry about maps)


So now that you have your iPrint/NDPS setup done, agents loaded, printers attached and communicating ... there is no printer deployment functions that got included in the release of iPrint. It was under the assumption that users would go to the web page and install the printers from there (and that is a fine idea ... but most users are lazy and just want the printer to be there).

You can use Marv's suggestion and use ZfD to push the printers out to your users, as it works fine. I only find it to get complicated since your then creating ZfD policies that do just printers, creating a large amount of objects in your tree (depending on your environment of course).

I would suggest looking at iPrint Client Management. It was an after thought from Novell. it allows you to assign printers to user, and those printers will push. With eDir 8.8, the functionality is already there. For 8.7 you will need to download the iManager plugin as well as the schema extension to gain this functionality.

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[marvhuffaker]

I have seen intermittent problems with iPrint Client Management. Yes nice idea, takes after the old NDPS Remote Printer pushes... But sometimes printers just disappear, and sometimes you can't get printers to auto-install unless you go install one manually first. Even though they've had a few different revs, I have not seen any improvement on these aspects.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc.
A Novell Platinum Partner

http://www.redjuju.com