Server with 2 nics, howto iprint from both nets ?

[hellbeach]

Hello people
We have a server with NW65sp6 and BM39.
There are two nics with ips 10.20.42.50 and 10.42.42.4.
10.20.42 is the primary net on which most of the users are going to be, and iprint works fine on that net. I have configured the server so that a few machines on the 10.42.42. net can access the server via 10.42.42.4 and I would like to enable these few machines to also use iprint on the server, how can I do this ?
(ps, I´m loading NDPSM and BROKER with specified ip-addresses 10.20.42.50)

/Dan

 

[marvhuffaker]

My preference is to use the DNS name instead of the IP address on the Manager.

load ndpsm /DNSNAME=myserver.domain.net

When you use the /IPADDRESS Switch, it binds specifically to that address. I believe that without the IPADDRESS Switch, it will bind to all addresses.

Using the DNS name, you should be able to use the server on both subnets equally.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[hellbeach]

I tried your tips but it didn´t work.
I added 10.20.42.50 as a new A-record to the DNS-name adm-printmanager and then loaded ndpsm with /dnsname=adm-printmanager I got the same result as loading it with ip-address:
When adding the printer in windows from the 10.42.42. net I get the error message "Network address is not valid" (translated from Swedish).

 

[marvhuffaker]

You also can't use both the /ipaddress and /ndsname switch at the same time. I don't' know if you did that or not.

How are you adding the printer?

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[hellbeach]

Yeah, If I load ths NDPSM with both /dnsname and /ipaddress, it will choose the /ipaddress so that wont work..

I tried loading the NDPSM with /ipaddress=10.42.42.4 and then it worked to add printers from the other net
but instead it didn´t work to add from the primary net.
A possible solution would be to have two printmanagers, one binding to 10.20.42.50 and one binding to 10.42.42.4
and then add the printers twice and assign the to each printmanager, but this doesn´t seem to be possible
since I only can start one printmanager on one server.

 

[hellbeach]

Still no solution
Seems unlikley that it would be impossible to print to the same printer from two nets if you have BM3.9 in between. I will keep looking...

 

[marvhuffaker]

I don't know why it's not working, but you just mentioned Bordermanager, so now I'm really confused. I think there is more to your scenario than you originally stated.


Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[hellbeach]

If you check my first post I stated that I was running NW65sp6 and BM39.

Any way, I know I´ve seen a solution on an older server which was running nw51 and an older BM. The solution was an extra print queue which then was served by the PA or something like that.

 

[hellbeach]

This seems like a hard case to crack. I´ll state the problem again.:
* 2 nics in a NW6.5, ZFD7, BM3.9 box
* Bind a printmanager to nic 1
* Be able to access the printers on PM from machines connecting to nic 1 and 2.

It works fine to access the PM from computers connecting to the server on NIC 1, but not on NIC2. Could there be some route or rule in BM I have overlooked in order to get this to work ?

 

[hellbeach]

I´m answering my own question here..
I solved it by adding an old print queue and then setting each printer to serve the queue, then I can access the queue from the other network, worked like a charm..

/Dan