With a SunLink Server computer installed in your network, it won't matter whether Windows or Solaris clients send their jobs to the printers that it serves. The SunLink Server computer will recognize and process both types.
This chapter tells you how to set up a SunLink Server computer as a print server, and offers background information that will help you keep printing tasks running smoothly. The process for setting up a Solaris printer to work in the network comprises three groups of tasks:
You need to perform the first two setup tasks only once per printer, and you use the SunLink Server Manager tool for the Solaris portion of the work. For the final two setup tasks, you use Windows tools. The final task, making the new printer available to clients, requires that each client machine user add the printer.