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Chaim Budnick
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Creating a queue on an NTY device

Is any special processor required for creating a printer queue on an NTY device?

I am looking at one of our customer systems and I see several queues which are defined on NTY devices and working fine, and a show queue/full does not show any special processor?

Thanks

Chaim
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Ian Miller.
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

An NTY device looks like a serial port so no particular symbiont needed.

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Chaim Budnick
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Thanks!

And what about a TNA port?

Chaim
Bojan Nemec
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Chaim,

It should be same as NTY. No special processors needed.

Bojan
Chaim Budnick
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Thanks!

So basically this makes obsolete the LPD and TELNET symbionts which were required way back when I was doing VMS work (I just recently got back into VMS after 4 years in the MS world).

Chaim
Bojan Nemec
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Chaim,

This is partialy true. The "standard" SYS$SYSTEM:PRTSMB.EXE processor allocates the printer device. The device is allocated until the symbiont runs (STOP/NEXT stop the symbiont). The SYS$SYSTEM:LATSYM.EXE processor introduced that the device is allocated only for the duration of the job. This is needed when one printer is used from more than one computer. There is a rudimental queue on the printer server (or printer itself) which blocks simultaneous jobs. This queue works on connections. When a connection is established all others are blocked.
So depends on yours environment if you need TELNET or LPD symbionts or you dont need them.

Bojan
Antoniov.
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

I'm with Bojan,
for example with tcpip processor you can supply IP address and you don't need create a TNA port before starting queue.

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Jan van den Ende
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Small supplement to Antonio:

You need the IP address (or, preferably, a DNS name that tranlates to an IP address) _AND_ the portnumber at the printer (for HP printers that will be port 9100; other brands, look at their documentation)
(partial) queue init syntax:
... /ON=prt1.our-domain:9100 ... (or, of course, /AUTOSTART_ON= etc)

hth

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan
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Martin Vorlaender
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

To clear up some apparent confusion:

*Either* you create the telnet device beforehand (using IP/name and port) and don't need a queue processor,

*or* you create the queue using /ON with the IP/name and port *and* specify the TELNETSYM processor

cu,
Martin
Wim Van den Wyngaert
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Re: Creating a queue on an NTY device

Just to understand this thread : is this multinet only ? If not, how do you create NTY devices ?

Wim
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