Konica Minolta PageScope User manual

PageScope
NDPS Gateway 2.0
User Manual
4506-7796-02

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Foreword
Welcome
Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway is software that controls printers and
print jobs and checks their status in an NDPS (Novell Distributed Print
Services) environment, the newest printing system by Novell, Inc.
Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway provides the following:
• Printer agent configuration
• Printer control snap-in functionality
• NDPS gateway server capabilities
Trademark Acknowledgements
Minolta is a registered trademark of MINOLTA CO., LTD.
PageScope is a trademark of MINOLTA CO., LTD.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation.
Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation.
Netscape Communications, the Netscape Communications logo, Netscape
Navigator, Netscape Communicator, and Netscape are trademarks of
Netscape Communications Corporation.
Novell, NetWare, NDS, Novell Directory Services, NDPS, and Novell
Distributed Print Services are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.
Novell Client, Printer Agent, Public Access Printer, and Controlled Access
Prnter are trademarks of Novell, Inc.
PCL is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company Limited.
All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.
Copyright © 2002 by Peerless Systems Corp, 2381 Rosecrans Avenue, El
Segundo, CA 90245
Copyright 2002 MINOLTA CO., LTD.
Screen images shown in this manual may differ slightly from actual
ones. Specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

Contents
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CONTENTS
1 Overview ............................................................ 1
1.1 Features .................................................................... 1
1.2 Supported Platforms ............................................... 1
1.3 Supported Language ...............................................2
2 Installation ......................................................... 3
2.1 Installing NDPS ........................................................ 3
2.2 Installing Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway ......4
3 Printer Agent Configuration ............................. 6
3.1 Starting Up the Configuration Utility ..................... 6
3.1.1 For a Public Access Printer ...........................................7
3.1.2 For a Controlled Access Printer ...................................9
3.2 Configuring a Printer Agent ..................................11
3.3 Manually Adding a Printer ..................................... 13
3.4 Printer Detection Settings ..................................... 14

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4 NDPS User Interface ....................................... 17
4.1 NDPS Printer Manager ..........................................17
4.2 Installing a Printer Device for a Printer Agent ....19
4.3 NDPS Job Manager ................................................ 21
4.4 Microsoft Printer Manager .................................... 21
4.5 NDPS Printer Gateway Operation .........................22
5 NDPS Printer Snap-In Operation .................... 23
5.1 Printer Details Button ............................................ 24
5.1.1 Identification .................................................................24
5.1.2 Feature ..........................................................................25
5.1.3 Status ............................................................................25
5.1.4 Set Defaults ..................................................................26
5.1.5 About .............................................................................26
5.2 I/O Info Button ........................................................ 27
5.2.1 Input Summary .............................................................27
5.2.2 Output Summary ..........................................................28
5.3 Job Info Button ......................................................29
5.4 Enable/Disable Input Button ................................. 30
5.5 Pause/Resume Output Button .............................. 30
5.6 Polling Setting Button ........................................... 30
5.7 Troubleshooting Button ........................................ 31
5.8 Control Panel Displays .......................................... 32
5.9 Linking to PageScope Light ..................................32

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6 Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway Server
Capabilities ...................................................... 33
6.1 Printer List .............................................................. 33
6.2 Specifying Printer Settings ...................................34
7 Troubleshooting ............................................... 35
7.1 Troubleshooting the NDPS Printer
Configuration Module ............................................ 35
7.1.1 Why does the “Authentication failed”
message appear? .........................................................35
7.1.2 Why is a particular printer not found
in the “Discovered Printers” list? ...............................35
7.2 Troubleshooting the NDPS Printer Gateway
Module ....................................................................36
7.2.1 Why is an NDPS printer agent
in the “Not Bound” state? ...........................................36
7.2.2 Why is an NDPS printer agent
in the “Needs Attention” state? ..................................37
7.2.3 Why is an NDPS printer agent stuck
in the “Printing” state? ................................................37
7.3 Troubleshooting the NDPS Printer Control
Snap-In Module ......................................................38
7.3.1 Why is the Novell Printer Control snap-in
opened for a Minolta printer? ......................................38
7.3.2 Why can a screen not be opened? .............................38
7.3.3 Why is there no or bad data in the screen? ...............38
7.4 Troubleshooting the NDPS Module ...................... 39
7.4.1 Why does an event not generate the pop-up
or log message on the client machine? .....................39

1Overview
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1 Overview
1.1 Features
• NDPS (Novell Distributed Print Services) printing to supported
Minolta printer models is provided.
• Supported Minolta printers on an IP network can be detected, and a
list for user selection is provided.
• Events can be detected, and messages to users can be generated.
• Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway accesses printers using SNMP
(Simple Network Management Protocol) and displays front panel
messages and the status of the printers.
• Supported Printers:
Most Minolta digital MFPs*1 and Minolta/Minolta-QMS laser beam
printers are supported. (Some models are not supported.)
*1 MFPs: Multifunction Peripherals
1.2 Supported Platforms
Environment of
server where Minolta
PageScope NDPS
Gateway will run
The newest Service Pack must be installed, and use
of IP must be possible.
•NetWare5
•NetWare5.1
•NetWare6
NDPS • NDPS 2.0 or later
Snap-in environment
• Windows 95 (Service Pack 1 or later)
•Windows98
• Windows 98 Second Edition
• Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6a or later)
• Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or later)
• Windows XP

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1.3 Supported Language
Novell client • For Windows 95/98, NetWare Client v3.32 or later
• For Windows NT/2000/XP, NetWare Client v4.83
or later
Client Web browser • Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
• Netscape 4.0 or later
Protocol •TCP/IP(LPD)
Printer agent
configuration/
Control snap-in
• English
•German
•Spanish
• Italian
•French
• Japanese
NDPS gateway
server • English

2 Installation
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2Installation
This section describes how to install Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway,
which is composed of different parts. The gateway component provides
NDPS service to NDPS clients for non-NDPS printers. The control snap-in
utility manages the Minolta printer agents. Additionally, the configuration
utility allows you to configure the NDPS printer agents.
2.1 Installing NDPS
The Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway is added to the Novell NDPS.
Therefore, the first step is to install NDPS.
1. When installing NetWare 5.x or 6.x, make sure that NDPS is also
installed. If the server is installed without NDPS, you can add the ser-
vice after server installation by loading “NWCONFIG.NLM”, then
selecting “Product Options”, and adding NDPS to the server.
2. The administration utility is “NWADMN32.EXE”, located at
“SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32”.
3. Run “NWADMN32”, and then select an NDPS broker. Create NDPS
brokers when necessary.
4. Add printer drivers, banners and fonts to NDPS via the NDPS Resource
Service Manager.
5. The NDPS Printer Manager for Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 client is
“NWPMW32.EXE”, located at “SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32”.

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2.2 Installing Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway
Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway will be installed onto a NetWare server
from Windows.
Note
1. On Windows, start up the installation program (mltndps.exe).
2. Click the [Next] button.
The License Agreement dialog appears.
3. Click the [Yes] button.
The Choose Destination dialog appears, allowing you to specify
where the application will be installed.
•Authenticated NetWare Servers:
A list of NetWare servers that are logged in is displayed.
•Unauthenticated NetWare Servers:
A list of NetWare servers that are connected but not logged in is
displayed.
• Before installation, be sure that you are connected to the
NetWare server onto which Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway
will be installed, or that you are logged on with administrator
privileges.

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4. From either the “Authenticated NetWare Servers” or the “Unau-
thenticated NetWare Servers” list, select the server where Minolta
PageScope NDPS Gateway will be installed.
5. To change the installation location to a folder other than that shown in
“Destination Folder”, click the [Browse] button.
If the server is not logged in, the Login dialog appears, allowing you to
log in.
Specify the folder, and then click the [OK] button.
6. Click the Next button.
Installation begins, and the files are copied to the specified NetWare
server.
Files that are copied
The following files are copied when Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway is
installed. These files are removed when Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway
is uninstalled.
Module Name Path
Minocfg.pd2
MinoCtrl.pc2
Minolta.ini
MinoSnmp.dll
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32
MiCfgRes.dll
MiCtlRes.dll
Milgateway.hlp
Milgateway.cnt
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32\NLS\(appropriate language folder)
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32\NLS\(appropriate language folder)
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32\NLS\(appropriate language folder)
SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32\NLS\(appropriate language folder)
Minogw.nlm SYS:\SYSTEM
Minogw.msg
Minogw.hlp SYS:\SYSTEM\NLS\4 SYS:\SYSTEM\NLS\4

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3 Printer Agent Configuration
Each NetWare printer is represented by an NDPS (Novell Distributed Print
Services) printer agent. The NDPS client submits a print job to the NDPS
printer agent. The NDPS PSM (Print Service Manager) passes the job to the
gateway, which submits the job to the NetWare printer for printing.
In an NDPS environment, users can configure a printer as a public access
printer or as a controlled access printer. The relationship between the NDPS
printer agent and the NetWare printer can be established via the
configuration utility. The configuration utility is a Windows-based
application. The operation of this configuration utility is described in this
section.
3.1 Starting Up the Configuration Utility
The procedures for creating a public access printer agent and a controlled
access printer agent are very similar. The only difference is in how the
configuration utility is started up. This difference and the operation of the
configuration utility is explained below.
Public access printer
A public access printer is available to all users as soon as a printer agent for
that printer appears on the network. Public access printers are not
represented by NDS (Novell Directory Services) objects, and they simply
exist on the network for all clients to locate and use. In order to use a public
access printer, clients must connect to the network, but they do not need
authentication in the NDS tree before using a public access printer.
However, users do not have privileges for setting configuration options that
are also available for controlled access printers.

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Controlled access printer
A controlled access printer enables you to assign NDS privileges for
controlling which users can see, use, and manage this printer. To configure a
controlled access printer, you can simply create an NDPS printer object to
represent the printer. The newly created NDPS printer object will appear in
the NWADMIN utility’s NDS browser. As with other NDS objects, a
controlled access printer offers a full range of security options. Users can
also configure default properties, which are unavailable to public access.
Before creating a printer agent, be sure that:
•“NDPS.NLM” is loaded. If it is not, type “load ndpsm” at the server
console prompt, and then select the NDPS manager that you want to
start up.
•“NWADMN32.EXE”, located at “SYS:\PUBLIC\WIN32\”, has
been ran.
3.1.1 For a Public Access Printer
1. Double-click the corresponding NDPS manager object within the NDS
tree.

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2. Select “Printer Agent List” from the column at the right, and then click
the [New] button to create the printer agent.
The Create Printer Agent dialog appears. (This dialog is the same as
that displayed when creating a controlled access printer, as described
below.)
3. Enter the printer agent name (e.g., Minolta_PA1) in the “Printer Agent
(PA) Name” box.
4. From the list, according to the syntax
“NDPS_Manager_Name.Context_Name”, select the NDPS manager
started up from the server console.
5. Select “Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway (IP)” in the “Gateway
Types” box, and then click the [OK] button.
To configure the printer agent, continue with the instructions in section
3.2.

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3.1.2 For a Controlled Access Printer
1. From the NetWare Administrator dialog, select the context under which
the printer agent is created in this NDS container (e.g.,
“CONTEXT_99”).
2. From the “Object” menu, select “Create”.
The New Object dialog appears.
3. Select “NDPS Printer”, and then click the [OK] button.
The Create NDPS Printer dialog appears.

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4. Enter the printer agent name (e.g., Minolta_PA1) into the “NDPS
Printer Name” box.
5. Select “Create a New Printer Agent” under “Printer Agent
Source”, and then click the [Create] button.
The Create Printer Agent dialog appears.
6. Enter the printer agent name (e.g., Minolta_PA1) into the “Printer
Agent (PA) Name” box.
7. From the list, according to the syntax
“NDPS_Manager_Name.Context_Name”, select the NDPS manager
started up from the server console.
8. Select “Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway (IP)” in the “Gateway
Types” box, and then click the [OK] button to proceed.
To configure the printer agent, continue with the instructions in section
3.2.

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3.2 Configuring a Printer Agent
When creating either a public access printer or a controlled access printer,
the same Create Printer Agent dialog appears. After completing the dialog,
the Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway dialog appears.
A list of printer names and their corresponding IP address is displayed in the
Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway dialog.
Note
• To detect printers located in other subnets, click the [Advanced]
button. Refer to section 3.4 for details.
• To add a single printer located in another subnet, click the [Add
Device] button, and then following the instructions explained in
section 3.3.

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1. From the list, select the printer assigned to the printer agent, and then
click the [Finish] button.
The LPR Settings dialog appears, allowing you to select the name of
the lpd queue for the selected printer.
2. From the list, select the name of the lpd queue to be used, and then click
the [OK] button.
In the dialog that appears, asking for confirmation, click the [OK]
button.
A dialog appears, allowing you to select the printer driver for the
selected printer.
3. Select the corresponding printer driver.
The Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway will then be completed.

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3.3 Manually Adding a Printer
Click the [Add Device] button to add other printers that cannot be or have
not been automatically detected by the configuration utility. This is useful
when you have defined a small network coverage for printer detection (e.g.,
hop count = 0), but you want to configure a distant printer.
1. Click the [Add Device] button in the Minolta PageScope NDPS Gate-
way dialog.
The Add Device dialog appears.
2. Enter the IP address, and then click the [OK] button.
A supported Minolta printer is added.
Whether the printer for that IP address exists or not is checked. If that printer
exists on the network and if it can be confirmed that the printer is a
supported Minolta printer, that printer is added to the list of detected printers
in the Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway dialog.

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3.4 Printer Detection Settings
After clicking the [Advanced] button, various settings can be made to
specify the location in which printers are detected.
On the “Default Setting” tab of the Advanced dialog, you can change the
following two settings:
• SNMP Community Setting:
You can select a different read community (usually specified as
“public”), which is used for communicating with Minolta printing
devices.
• IP Discovery Setting:
You can define the maximum hop count (number of routers passed
through) when detecting printers automatically. The default value is
0, and users are allowed to enter a hop count between 0 and 10.
However, for cases when printers are to be located with a hop count
above 10 and for better performance during detection, users can add
an additional subnet in which printers are detected, as described
below.

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Specifying a searched subnet
In the following cases, the location in which printers are searched for should
be specified.
• If the printer is in a location that requires many routers (more than 10
hops) to be transversed
• When you wish to use a printer that is far from the local subnet
• When a larger maximum number of hops results in the list containing
many printers
• If too many broadcast packets will be sent into the network, resulting
in increased network traffic
1. Click the [Advanced] button in the Minolta PageScope NDPS Gateway
dialog.
The Advanced dialog appears.
2. Click the “IP Discovery” tab of the Advanced dialog.
A list of subnet addresses is displayed.
The Subnet list allows users to specify a particular subnet to be
included in the search in addition to controlling the detection with a
maximum hop count.