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Setting up the InfoPrint AIX server for interoperability
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v The Windows systems must have Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX installed. AIX Fast Connect is server software that allows AIX servers and workstations to share files and printers with personal computer clients running Windows operating systems. Because AIX Fast Connect uses industry-standard Microsoft networking protocols, PC clients can access AIX files using Microsoft networking client software. PC users can use remote AIX file systems directly from their machines like local file systems. The namespace will appear on the network just like any other Windows shared folder. AIX Fast Connect provides these services by implementing the SMB networking protocol to run on NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Microsoft PCNFS (Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX) allows a Windows system to mount the exported AIX Network File System (NFS) that InfoPrint uses to share the namespace. By doing this set of procedures on both an InfoPrint AIX server and an InfoPrint Windows workstation, you can configure InfoPrint Manager to support interoperability between InfoPrint AIX servers and InfoPrint Windows servers. When configuring InfoPrint Manager for AIX and Windows servers to support interoperability, make sure that these rules are followed: 1. Each InfoPrint Manager server must be accessible by all other InfoPrint Manager servers using the same IP address. For example, if Server1 is an InfoPrint Manager AIX server with an IP address of 9.99.155.122, then all other InfoPrint Manager servers must use 9.99.155.122 to access Server1. 2. The IP address for each InfoPrint Manager server must be the address that is identified for the first (or primary) network card that is defined to that server. 3. All printer objects (whether logical destination, actual destination, or queue) must have unique names if they are used by interoperating InfoPrint servers. If the printer objects do not possess unique names, you might have trouble viewing them through the InfoPrint Manager Interface from a non-namespace server. 4. InfoPrint Manager Notifications should only run on the primary server and should be stopped on the secondary servers. LPD service for AIX can be used however, by submitting jobs with the lpr command to actual destinations on the AIX server. The lpr command can also still be used as before with Windows printer destinations (just not InfoPrint Manager printers). Setting up the InfoPrint AIX server for interoperability Perform these procedures on your InfoPrint AIX server to prepare for interoperability with an InfoPrint Windows server. These procedures presume that you have installed InfoPrint Manager for AIX on your AIX server and have logged onto the server as root. Starting NFS and connecting the secondary server 1. Open a dtterm window and type: /etc/rc.nfs to either start the NFS daemon or make sure that it has been started. 2. Open a dtterm window, type smit. This screen displays. 262 InfoPrint Manager for AIX: Procedures