The ncpfs package includes two small programs that allow you to handle
printing from you Linux machine to a printer attached to a Novell print server.
The nprint command allows you to print to a file to a NetWare print
queue. The pqlist command allows you the list the available print
queues on a NetWare server.
To obtain and install these commands just follow the instructions relating to
the NCP client described earlier.
Both commands require that you supply username and
password so you might normally consider building some shell scripts to make
the task of printing easier.
The login syntax is similar to the ncpmount command. The examples
above assume that fileserver ACCT_FS01 has a guest account
with no password, that a print queue called LASER exists and that
guest is allowed to print to it.
On my Linux boxen I have a short shell script for each Novell printer. This
can then be used as a print filter to allow printing using the standard
Linux spooler.
