7.1 SERVICES

Digital UNIX provides a variety of services that users come to depend on. These services include printing facilities; the ability to read, write, and manipulate files on a diskette, formatted either with an MS-DOS file system or a UNIX File System; and support for both CD-ROMs (data) and audio music CDs. I will detail these services from a system administration viewpoint, especially their initial configuration and use. One or more of these services always seem to find a place in the hearts of users, and you may find yourself spending a fair amount of time supporting and troubleshooting these services.

7.2 PRINTING

Supporting printing from a Digital UNIX system is an important system management function for a system administrator. Digital UNIX supports the ability for users to print both to local printers connected directly to a system's parallel or serial ports and to remote printers via the network. A remote printer can be either another computer's locally connected printer or a stand-alone network printer. In addition, it may be necessary to provide printing services for other remote clients. Digital UNIX supports this printserver ability through the lpd print daemon.

First, the Digital UNIX lpd print daemon's operation and the directory structure that supports this spooling system will be described. The next topic covered will be configuring a Digital UNIX system to print to a locally connected printer. All other print configurations build upon this basic configuration. The configuration to print to a remote printer is similar to that...