HELIOS Base UB User manual


Contents
Copyright information
Welcome to HELIOS Base
1 About the chapters of this manual
2 Using the manual
2.1 Conventions
2.1.1 Structure
2.1.2 Font and syntax conventions
3 An introduction to HELIOS Base
3.1 New Base features
3.2 Network hardware
3.3 Network topology
4 The Base product
4.1 Software installation
4.1.1 System requirements
4.1.2 General remarks
4.1.3 Preparing the installation
4.1.4 Navigating within the HELIOS Installer
4.1.5 Software installation
4.1.6 Software installation (Mac OS X)
4.2 Upgrading from 4th generation products to UB
4.3 Migrating from earlier versions (CD017 or earlier) to UB
4.3.1 Migrate Settings
4.3.2 Previous (CD017 and earlier) and new versions settings
4.3.3 Switching back to the old versions (up to CD017 and earlier)
4.3.4 Switching back to the new versions
4.3.5 Migrating a second time
4.3.6 Removing the old versions completely
4.4 Licenses
4.4.1 Entering a new license
4.4.2 Removing a HELIOS license from the server
4.4.3 Entering a new license (Mac OS X)
4.5 Starting/Stopping HELIOS Services manually
4.6 HELIOS TCP/IP security overview
4.6.1 Setting passwords
4.6.2 IP Access Control Lists
4.6.3 Firewall ports
4.7 After the installation - What now?
4.8 Migration to other platforms
4.9 Backing up HELIOS settings
4.9.1 Automatic backup of configuration
4.10 Data backup
5 HELIOS directory structure
5.1 HELIOSDIR/bin
5.2 HELIOSDIR/etc
5.3 HELIOSDIR/etc/prefs
5.4 HELIOSDIR/lib
5.5 HELIOSDIR/public
5.6 HELIOSDIR/sbin
5.7 HELIOSDIR/var
5.8 HELIOSDIR/var/conf
5.9 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/dicts
5.10 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/psfonts
5.11 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/qmeta
6 HELIOS Admin
6.1 General remarks
6.1.1 System requirements
6.2 Starting HELIOS Admin
6.3 Logging on to the HELIOS Admin server
6.4 Local preferences
6.5 Lists menu
6.5.1 Users
6.5.2 Groups
6.5.3 Volumes
6.5.4 Printers
6.5.5 Printer connection type (Interface)
6.5.6 Active Users
6.5.7 Printer Log Files
6.5.8 Server Log Files
6.5.9 System Messages
6.5.10 Script Server Log Files
6.5.11 Versions
6.5.12 Server File
6.6 Volume menu
6.7 Printer menu
6.8 Settings menu
6.8.1 Server Settings
6.8.2 Security Settings
6.8.3 Fonts
6.8.4 Extension Mappings
6.8.5 IP Access
6.8.6 Server Preferences
6.9 Printer job windows - moving, restarting, and deleting jobs
6.10 Multiple HELIOS hosts
6.11 Logging off from the HELIOS Admin server
6.12 Retrieving information about the software
7 HELIOS utility programs
7.1 srvmsg
7.2 logrotate
7.3 locktable
7.4 migrate
7.5 uniconv
7.6 socket
7.7 swho
7.8 ifstat
7.9 dt tools
7.9.1 Command descriptions
7.9.2 "dt" warning messages
7.9.3 Additional information
7.9.4 Using "dt" for backup/restore
7.10 rebuild
7.10.1 Preferences of the "rebuild" program
7.11 prefvalue
7.12 prefdump
7.13 prefrestore
7.14 mail
7.15 authutil
7.16 hupd
7.17 license
7.18 machid
7.19 oiinfo
7.20 pstext
7.20.1 Escape Interpreter
7.20.2 Umlauts and special characters
7.21 psresolve
7.21.1 List of parameters
7.21.2 Example
7.22 start-helios
7.23 stop-helios
7.24 uwhat
7.25 lscom
7.26 psyslog
7.27 htar
7.28 printerlog
7.29 serverlog
8 Service Location Protocol (SLP)
8.1 slptool
9 The HELIOS Admin server
9.1 General remarks
9.2 The HELIOS Admin server program
10 The authentication server
10.1 The authentication server program
10.1.1 Different user authentication needs
10.1.2 PAM Modules
10.1.3 Authentication server telnet port
10.1.4 Login notification script
10.1.5 Local host users/groups
10.1.6 AD/PDC
10.2 authutil
10.3 Configuration with NIS
11 The notification server
11.1 The notification server program
12 The desktop server
12.1 General remarks
12.2 The desktop server program
12.3 "afpsrv/pcshare" and "desksrv" coordination
13 The Service Controller
13.1 srvutil
13.2 Integrating additional services
14 HELIOS LPR printing system
14.1 The HELIOS printing system
14.2 Printer output interfaces
14.3 HELIOS LPR
14.4 LPRM
14.5 LPQ
14.6 LPC
14.7 LPD
14.8 Printcap
15 Uninstalling the HELIOS software
15.1 Removing the software
15.1.1 Removing the software (Mac OS X)
16 Preferences
16.1 Volume preference keys
16.2 Global preference keys
16.3 Printer preference keys
16.3.1 Spooler/Input settings
16.3.2 Output driver settings
16.3.3 "tcpif" preference keys
16.3.4 "shmif" preference keys
16.3.5 "diskif" preference keys
16.3.6 "holdif" preference keys
16.3.7 "balanceif" preference keys
16.3.8 "timeif" preference keys
16.3.9 "cloneif" preference keys
16.4 Service Controller preference keys
16.5 SLP server preference keys
16.6 Desktop server preference keys
16.7 Rebuild preference keys
16.8 Authentication server preference keys
16.9 Notification server preference keys
16.10 HELIOS Admin server preference keys
17 The HELIOS Update Installer
17.1 About HELIOS updates
17.2 Using the HELIOS Update Installer
18 Technical support
18.1 Support options
18.2 Keys and updates
18.3 Error Messages
18.3.1 "license" error messages
18.3.2 "generic" error messages
18.3.3 "desksrv" error and status messages
18.3.4 "rebuild" error messages
A 1 Windows and Macintosh characters
A 2 IP configuration - Reference Part
A 3 Technical notes
A 3.1 Printer log file structure
A 3.2 Server log file structure
A 3.3 PostScript RIP inits in
HELIOS Admin

A 3.4 UNIX kernel tuning
A 3.5 TCP ports used by HELIOS
A 4 Glossary
Index

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