How to Share a Network Printer to Novell and Microsoft Clients

This article describes how to create and share a printer on a computer running both Windows NT Server and File and Print Services for NetWare (FPNW) for use by both Microsoft and NetWare network clients.

To share a printer with File and Print Services for NetWare, you must first share the printer for Microsoft network clients. No other steps are required to share the printer with File and Print Services for NetWare.

FPNW builds its list of shared network printers for NetWare clients by enumerating the list of printers shared for Microsoft network clients. FPNW advertises the printer name, rather than the share name, as the NetWare print queue name.

To set up an FPNW printer to share to Novell NetWare clients, use the following steps:

1. Create the printer using any method to establish connection with the printer (that is, LPT1:, DLC, LPR, HP JetDirect Port, and so on).
2. Name the printer. The Printer name is the name that NetWare network clients will see when connecting to the print server.
3. Share the printer. The Share name is the name Microsoft network clients will see when browsing resources on the print server.

NOTE: The FPNW Print Servers menu option available in Server Manager should not be used to create FPNW printer shares. This option is only used to configure FPNW to print to NetWare printers running Pserver.

For information on printing to Pserver printers, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:


For information specifically on how to configure FPNW to service Pserver printers, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 173531  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173531/EN-US/ )
TITLE : How To Configure Printers on FPNW to Service Pserver.nlm

ARTICLE-ID: 140467  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140467/EN-US/ )
TITLE : How to Set Up Printers on FPNW to Service PSERVER.EXE