Philips 5900 User Manual

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AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

1. Double-click the 

Templates folder, then drag the Printer icon out to the 

Workplace Shell (or into a folder) while holding the right mouse button 
down.

2. Type a name of your choice in the Name field.

3. Select \PIPE\<name>.LP1 (or LP2), from the Port list, and select a printer 

driver suitable for your printer from the Standard Printer list.

4. Click 

OK to confirm the printer definition.

A print queue must be made a shared resource before it can be accessed 

from other clients or servers. The following three examples show how you 

can share your printer resources:

Open an OS/2 window and issue the following command:

NET SHARE <queue_name> /PRINT

Where <queue_name> is the name of the queue created on the previous 

side.

To share a printer resource when using OS/2 Warp with IBM Peer service, 

follow the steps below:

1. Click the right mouse button on the printer object.

2. Select 

Share and then Start sharing. In the dialog box, enter a Description.

3. Select the check-box 

Start sharing at LAN workstation start-up.

4. Click 

OK.

To share a printer resource when using LAN server 4.0, follow the steps 

below:

1. Open 

LAN Server Administration.

2. Open your domain and then 

Resource Definition.

3. Drag and drop a printer from the template.

4. Enter the Alias name, select a Server name and the previously created 

Spooler Queue Name.

5. Click 

OK.

The setup is completed and you can now print through your print server.