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
4 The Base product
4.1 Software installation
4.1.1 Server requirements
4.1.2 Additional requirements on Windows
4.1.3 General remarks
4.1.4 Preparing the installation
4.1.5 Navigating within the HELIOS Installer
4.1.6 Software installation
4.1.7 Software installation (Mac OS X)
4.1.8 Software installation (Windows)
4.2 Upgrading product generations
4.2.1 Upgrading from UB generation products to UB+
4.2.2 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)
4.4.4 License conditions (Windows)
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 The Base product (Windows)
5.1 HELIOS architecture on Windows
5.1.1 Optimal integration into Windows
5.1.2 HELIOS server processes on Windows
5.1.3 Starting and stopping the HELIOS software
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
5.8.1 DLL search path for HELIOS libraries
5.8.2 HELIOS files copied into the Windows folder
5.8.3 Windows registry entries
5.9 HELIOS file event driver
5.10 Windows firewall problems
5.11 HELIOS Admin notes
5.12 "srvmsg" program notes
5.13 PAP and HELIOS TCP Printing
6 HELIOS directory structure
6.1 HELIOSDIR/bin
6.2 HELIOSDIR/etc
6.3 HELIOSDIR/etc/prefs
6.4 HELIOSDIR/lib
6.5 HELIOSDIR/public
6.6 HELIOSDIR/sbin
6.7 HELIOSDIR/var
6.8 HELIOSDIR/var/conf
6.9 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/dicts
6.10 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/psfonts
6.11 HELIOSDIR/var/spool/qmeta
7 HELIOS Admin
7.1 General remarks
7.1.1 System requirements
7.2 Starting HELIOS Admin
7.3 Logging on to the HELIOS Admin server
7.4 Local preferences
7.5 Lists menu
7.5.1 Users
7.5.2 Groups
7.5.3 Volumes
7.5.4 Printers
7.5.5 Printer connection type (Interface)
7.5.6 Active users
7.5.7 Printer log files
7.5.8 Server log files
7.5.9 System Messages
7.5.10 Script Server Log Files
7.5.11 Versions
7.5.12 Server File
7.6 Volume menu
7.7 Printer menu
7.8 Settings menu
7.8.1 Server Settings
7.8.2 Security Settings
7.8.3 Color Labels
7.8.4 Fonts
7.8.5 Extension Mappings
7.8.6 IP Access
7.8.7 Server Preferences
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
8 HELIOS utility programs
8.1 srvmsg
8.2 logrotate
8.3 locktable
8.4 migrate
8.5 uniconv
8.6 socket
8.7 swho
8.8 ifstat
8.9 sqlite
8.10 toolclient
8.11 "dt" tools
8.11.1 Command descriptions
8.11.2 Additional information
8.11.3 Using "dt" for backup/restore
8.12 rebuild
8.12.1 Preferences of the "rebuild" program
8.13 prefvalue
8.14 prefdump
8.15 prefrestore
8.16 mail
8.17 machid
8.18 oiinfo
8.19 pstext
8.19.1 Escape Interpreter
8.19.2 Umlauts and special characters
8.20 start-helios
8.21 stop-helios
8.22 uwhat
8.23 lscom
8.24 psyslog
8.25 htar
8.26 printerlog
8.27 serverlog
8.28 HELIOS Windows tools
8.28.1 kill
8.28.2 ln
8.28.3 dd
8.28.4 crontool
8.28.5 Windows printing to HELIOS queues
8.29 Third-party Windows tools
8.29.1 Sysinternals tools for Windows
8.29.2 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
10.1.1 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 NIS users/groups
10.1.7 AD/PDC users/groups
10.1.8 heliosauthcreate
10.1.9 LDAP
10.2 authutil
10.2.1 user
10.2.2 group
10.2.3 guest
10.2.4 login
10.2.5 passwd
10.2.6 batch
10.2.7 Note on AD/PDC users
10.3 Configuration with NIS
10.3.1 HELIOS services configuration on a NIS Master
10.3.2 NIS configuration with separate "passwd" and "group" files
10.3.3 NIS configuration without separate "passwd" and "group" files
10.3.4 NIS verification
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
12.2.1 Dynamic DNS update
12.2.2 DNS domain configuration
12.2.3 DNS server is required to enable updates
12.2.4 Client host names
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 new SQL desktop database
13.1.2 What is a desktop database good for?
13.2 The desktop server program
13.2.1 Online backup copies of a live volume
13.2.2 Re-indexing the desktop database
13.2.3 SQL desktop database engine
13.2.4 Note on UseSQL preference
13.3 "afpsrv/pcshare" and "desksrv" coordination
14 The 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
15.9 Windows printing
16 mDNS (Bonjour)
16.1 Introduction
16.2 mDNS vs. AppleTalk
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 Uninstalling the HELIOS software
17.1 Removing the software
17.1.1 Removing the software (Mac OS X)
17.1.2 Removing the software (Windows)
18 The HELIOS Update Installer
18.1 About HELIOS updates
18.2 Using the HELIOS Update Installer
19 Preferences
19.1 Volume preference keys
19.2 Global preference keys
19.3 Printer preference keys
19.3.1 Spooler/Input settings
19.3.2 Output driver settings
19.3.3 "tcpif" preference keys
19.3.4 "diskif" preference keys
19.3.5 "holdif" preference keys
19.3.6 "balanceif" preference keys
19.3.7 "timeif" preference keys
19.3.8 "cloneif" preference keys
19.4 Service Controller preference keys
19.5 Desktop server preference keys
19.6 Rebuild preference keys
19.7 Authentication server preference keys
19.8 mDNS server preference keys
19.9 mDNS proxy server preference keys
19.10 Notification server preference keys
19.11 DHCP server preference keys
19.12 HELIOS Admin server preference keys
20 Technical support
20.1 Support options
20.2 Keys and updates
20.3 Error Messages
20.3.1 "license" error messages
20.3.2 "generic" error messages
20.3.3 "desksrv" error and status messages
20.3.4 "rebuild" error messages
A 1 Windows and Mac 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 Error logging
A 3.5 UNIX kernel tuning
A 3.6 WebShare iPhone
A 3.7 TCP ports used by HELIOS
A 4 Glossary
Index

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