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Citrix and NDPS print

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by jpt 1 view

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Does anybody know if there are any problems by using Novell NDPS print and citrix ICA client together. I am getting an error in my ICA session that "no printer are installed". Spooler service is started. If i use a normal Novell printer Q the error is gone.

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by pat hughes, rockhill, sc

We use NDPS exclusively for print services. While we don't use ICA I have had very similar experiences with our AutoCAD 2000i on Win2k workstations. Many programs still can?t print directly to NDPS printers. Many AutoCAD functions still insist on printing to ?LPT1?. You can capture LPT ports to a queue object but not to an NDPS object.

So here?s what we do: We use only NDPS and the HP gateway. We set our HP JetDirect printers for IP only, no IPX, no SAP or broadcast. No print server objectsor non-NDPS printer objects are needed. Create an NDS queue or use an existing one and have an NDPS printer service the queue. You do that with NWAdmin, go to the printer object, details, Jobs, Spooling Configuration and at the bottom Add the queue.

This may not be the desired solution, but it may be the only practical one. You get all the benefits of NDPS but need to support some legacy style queues.

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