HELIOS Base – User manual

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Welcome to HELIOS Base
1 About the chapters of this manual
2 Using the manual
- 2.1 Font and syntax conventions
3 An introduction to HELIOS Base
- 3.1 New Base features
4 The Base product
- 4.1 Software installation
- 4.2 Upgrade product generations
  - 4.2.1 Upgrade from UB64 to G8
  - 4.2.2 Upgrade from older HELIOS software versions
- 4.3 Licenses
- 4.4 Start/stop HELIOS services manually
  - 4.4.1 Start/Stop (OS X)
- 4.5 HELIOS TCP/IP security overview
- 4.6 After the installation – What now?
- 4.7 Migration to other platforms
- 4.8 Back up HELIOS settings
  - 4.8.1 Automatic backup of the configuration
- 4.9 Data backup
5 The Base product (Windows)
- 5.1 HELIOS architecture on Windows
- 5.2 Windows permissions
  - 5.2.1 Permissions for owner and group
- 5.3 Windows event log
- 5.4 File name encoding
- 5.5 HELIOS CLI parameters
- 5.6 File path information
- 5.7 Windows shares & HELIOS volumes
- 5.8 Modifications in the Windows system
- 5.9 HELIOS file event driver
- 5.10 Windows firewall problems
- 5.11 HELIOS Admin notes
- 5.12 “srvmsg” program notes
- 5.13 HELIOS TCP Printing
6 HELIOS directory structure
- 6.1 HELIOSDIR/bin
- 6.2 HELIOSDIR/etc
  - 6.2.1 HELIOSDIR/etc/prefs
- 6.3 HELIOSDIR/lib
- 6.4 HELIOSDIR/public
- 6.5 HELIOSDIR/sbin
- 6.6 HELIOSDIR/var
7 HELIOS Admin
- 7.1 General remarks
  - 7.1.1 System requirements
- 7.2 Start HELIOS Admin
- 7.3 Log on to the HELIOS Admin server
- 7.4 Local preferences
- 7.5 Lists menu
- 7.6 Volume menu
- 7.7 Printer menu
- 7.8 Settings menu
- 7.9 Printer Jobs window – moving, restarting, and deleting jobs
- 7.10 Multiple HELIOS hosts
- 7.11 Logging off from the HELIOS Admin server
- 7.12 Retrieving information about the software
- 7.13 FAQ
8 HELIOS utility programs
- 8.1 srvmsg
  - 8.1.1 Options
- 8.2 logrotate
  - 8.2.1 Options
- 8.3 locktable
  - 8.3.1 Options
- 8.4 uniconv
  - 8.4.1 Options
- 8.5 socket
  - 8.5.1 Options
- 8.6 swho
  - 8.6.1 Options
- 8.7 ifstat
- 8.8 sqlite
  - 8.8.1 Options
- 8.9 toolclient
- 8.10 “dt” tools
  - 8.10.1 Command descriptions
  - 8.10.2 Additional information
  - 8.10.3 Using “dt” for backup/restore
- 8.11 rebuild
  - 8.11.1 Options
  - 8.11.2 Preferences of the “rebuild” program
- 8.12 prefvalue
- 8.13 prefdump
- 8.14 prefrestore
- 8.15 mail
  - 8.15.1 Options
- 8.16 machid
- 8.17 oiinfo
- 8.18 pstext
  - 8.18.1 Options
  - 8.18.2 Escape interpreter
  - 8.18.3 Umlauts and special characters
- 8.19 start-helios
  - 8.19.1 Option
- 8.20 stop-helios
  - 8.20.1 Options
- 8.21 uwhat
  - 8.21.1 Options
- 8.22 lscom
  - 8.22.1 Option
- 8.23 psyslog
  - 8.23.1 Options
- 8.24 htar
  - 8.24.1 Options
- 8.25 printerlog
  - 8.25.1 Options
- 8.26 serverlog
  - 8.26.1 Options
- 8.27 HELIOS Windows tools
  - 8.27.1 kill
  - 8.27.2 ln
  - 8.27.3 dd
  - 8.27.4 crontool
- 8.28 Windows tools
  - 8.28.1 Windows Sysinternals
  - 8.28.2 Wireshark Network Analyzer
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
- 10.2 authutil
- 10.3 Configuration with NIS
  - 10.3.1 HELIOS services configuration on a NIS Master
11 The notification server
- 11.1 The notification server program
12 DHCP server
- 12.1 HELIOS DHCP server
- 12.2 DHCP with dynamic DNS update
- 12.3 Configuring IP address and host name for HELIOS clients
  - 12.3.1 License terms for a secondary DHCP server
- 12.4 DHCP server service port
- 12.5 Duplicate HELIOS DHCP check
13 The desktop server
- 13.1 General remarks
  - 13.1.1 The SQL desktop database
  - 13.1.2 What is a desktop database good for?
- 13.2 The desktop server program
- 13.3 “afpsrv/pcshare” and “desksrv” coordination
14 The HELIOS Service Controller
- 14.1 srvutil
- 14.2 Integrating additional services
15 Advanced printing system
- 15.1 The HELIOS printing system
- 15.2 Printer output interfaces
- 15.3 HELIOS LPR
- 15.4 LPRM
- 15.5 LPQ
- 15.6 LPC
- 15.7 LPD
- 15.8 Printcap
  - 15.8.1 Example preferences for HELIOS TCP Printer
- 15.9 Windows printing system
16 mDNS (Bonjour)
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Overview of mDNS
- 16.3 Host names with DNS and mDNS
- 16.4 Coexistence of Apple Bonjour and the HELIOS mDNS server
- 16.5 HELIOS mDNS server
- 16.6 Sample network configurations
- 16.7 mDNS proxy server
- 16.8 Additional information
  - 16.8.1 Automatic mDNS service reconnect
  - 16.8.2 Tracing the mDNS server communication
- 16.9 mdnstool
17 Remove the software
- 17.1 Remove HELIOS products from the server
- 17.2 Remove the software (OS X)
- 17.3 Remove the software (Windows)
18 HELIOS Update Installer
- 18.1 About HELIOS updates
- 18.2 HELIOS Update Installer
19 Preferences
- 19.1 Server preference keys
- 19.2 Volume preference keys
- 19.3 Global preference keys
- 19.4 Printer preference keys
- 19.5 Service Controller preference keys
- 19.6 Desktop server preference keys
- 19.7 Rebuild preference keys
- 19.8 Synchronization service preference keys
- 19.9 Authentication server preference keys
- 19.10 mDNS server preference keys
- 19.11 mDNS proxy server preference keys
- 19.12 Notification server preference keys
- 19.13 DHCP server and WINS preference keys
- 19.14 HELIOS Admin server preference keys
20 Technical support
- 20.1 Support options
- 20.2 Keys and updates
- 20.3 Error messages
A Windows and Mac file names
B IP configuration – Reference Part
C Technical notes
- C.1 Printer log file structure
- C.2 Server log file structure
- C.3 Sync log file structure
- C.4 PostScript RIP inits in HELIOS Admin
- C.5 Error logging
- C.6 UNIX kernel tuning
- C.7 WebShare on slow network clients
- C.8 TCP ports used by HELIOS
D Glossary

HELIOS Manuals May 27, 2021

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