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