Contents Copyright information Welcome to EtherShare 2.6 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 Introduction 3.1 General considerations 3.2 Introduction to EtherShare and AppleTalk 3.3 EtherShare and UNIX programs and files 3.4 Network hardware 3.5 Network topology 3.6 New features of program version 2.6 4 Installation 4.1 System requirements 4.2 General remarks 4.3 Preparing the installation 4.3.1 Have your activation key at hand? 4.3.2 Preparing the UNIX host 4.3.3 Driver (AppleTalk) 4.3.4 Preparing Macintosh workstations 4.3.5 Preparing DOS/Windows workstations 4.3.6 Preparing upgrade installations 4.4 The UNIX installation procedure 4.5 Verifying the UNIX installation 4.6 The client installation procedure 4.7 Uninstalling EtherShare 4.7.1 Deleting the Macintosh utilities 4.7.2 Deleting the EtherShare UNIX software 4.8 Installing updates using the HELIOS update installer 5 EtherShare Admin 5.1 General remarks 5.2 Starting EtherShare Admin 5.3 Logging on to the Administration Server 5.4 Setting Admin preferences 5.5 About list windows 5.6 Users list 5.7 Groups list 5.8 Volumes list 5.9 Volume menu 5.10 Printers list 5.11 Printer menu 5.12 Printer job windows - moving, restarting, and deleting jobs 5.13 Other lists and accounting files 5.13.1 Fonts list 5.13.2 Active Users list and sending messages with EtherShare Admin 5.13.3 Printer Log File 5.13.4 Server Log File 5.13.5 System Messages 5.13.6 Versions 5.13.7 Extension Mappings 5.13.8 IP Access 5.14 Editing "atalk.conf" (and other configuration files) manually 5.15 Multiple EtherShare hosts 5.16 Logging off from the Administration Server 5.17 Retrieving information about your EtherShare copy 6 HELIOS Mail 6.1 General remarks 6.2 Starting HELIOS Mail 6.3 Setting Mail preferences 6.3.1 General preferences 6.3.2 Text preferences 6.3.3 Insert preferences 6.3.4 Header preferences 6.3.5 Inbox preferences 6.4 Configuring the connection 6.5 Incoming mail 6.6 Sending mail 6.7 Using/editing the address book 6.8 Defining a signature/a vacation message 6.9 The Windows menu 6.10 Mail Notification Feature 7 HELIOS Terminal 7.1 General remarks 7.2 Starting HELIOS Terminal 7.3 Setting Terminal preferences 7.4 Configuring the connection 7.5 Copy and paste 7.6 Function keys 8 The EtherShare System 8.1 General remarks 8.2 System configuration 8.3 The AppleTalk protocol stack 8.4 Parameters of the "atalkd" program 8.5 AppleTalk stack utility programs 9 The EtherShare File Server 9.1 General remarks 9.2 The File Server programs 9.3 Directory and file formats 9.4 Parameters of the "afpsrv" program 9.5 Users and groups 9.6 Public and private volumes 9.7 Access privileges 9.8 Data backup 9.9 File Server utility programs 9.10 EtherShare versus AppleShare 10 The Desktop Server 10.1 General remarks 10.2 The Desktop Server Program 10.3 Parameters of the "rebuild" program 10.3.1 "rebuild" error messages 10.4 Parameters of the "desksrv" program 10.4.1 "desksrv" error and status messages 10.5 "afpsrv" and "desksrv" coordination 11 The Print Server 11.1 General remarks 11.2 The Print Server Interfaces 11.3 The Print Server Programs 11.4 The Print Server in operation 11.5 Parameters of the "papsrv" program 11.6 Configuring printers manually 11.6.1 Global parameters 11.6.2 AppleTalk (PAP) connections 11.6.3 Serial PostScript connections 11.6.4 TCP/IP PostScript connections 11.6.5 Shared Memory software RIPs 11.6.6 Printing to disk 11.6.7 Printing to a hold/error queue 11.6.8 Balancing print job loads 11.7 Adobe Document Structuring Conventions 12 Text-to-PostScript Converter 12.1 General remarks 12.2 Options 12.3 Escape Interpreter 12.4 Umlauts and special characters 13 The Administration Server 13.1 General remarks 13.2 The Administration Server Program 13.3 Parameters of the "admsrv" program 13.4 Administration Server utility program 13.5 Configuration with Yellow Pages 14 The Mail Server 14.1 General remarks 14.2 The Mail Server Program 14.3 Parameters of the "mailsrv" program 14.4 The POP3 Server 15 The Terminal Server 15.1 General remarks 15.2 The Terminal Server Program 15.3 Parameters of "termsrv" program 16 The Time Server 17 Technical support 17.1 Support options 17.2 Keys and updates 17.3 Error Messages 17.3.1 "license" error messages 17.3.2 "generic" error messages 17.3.3 "atalkd" error messages 17.3.4 "afpsrv" error messages 17.3.5 "papsrv" error messages 17.3.6 "termsrv", "mailsrv" and "admsrv" error messages 17.3.7 Printer interface errors and status messages 17.3.8 Messages shared by all printer interfaces 17.3.9 "balanceif" error messages: 17.3.10 "diskif" error messages: 17.3.11 "papif" error messages: 17.3.12 "psof" error messages: 17.3.13 "psif" error messages: 17.3.14 "psresolve" error messages: 17.3.15 "shmif" error messages: 17.3.16 "tcpif" error messages: A 1 Sample configurations A 2 Files in the EtherShare directory A 3 Configuring EtherShare as an AppleTalk network router A 3.1: General remarks A 3.2: Example network setups A 3.3: Network automatic configuration option A 3.4: Seed routers, non-seed routers A 3.5: Manual network configuration A 4 EtherShare utility programs A 5 Standard UNIX utility programs A 6 Data backup with "dump" and "restore" A 7 Technical notes A 7.1: EtherShare log files A 7.2: PostScript RIP INITs in the EtherShare Admin A 7.3: Using the ISO-8859-1 character set under IBM AIX 4 A 7.4: Accessing spool queues from an IBM logical printer A 7.5: Accessing the System V "lpr" from the Print Server A 7.6: Accessing the Print Server through "Remote LPR" A 7.7: AppleTalk kernel configuration A 7.7.1 Loadable Drivers A 7.7.2 Re-linking the kernel A 7.8: UNIX kernel tuning A 8 IP configuration - Reference Part A 9 The Desktop utilities A 9.1: Introduction A 9.2: Do I need the "dt" utilities? A 9.3: How to install the "dt" utilities A 9.4: Notes about error messages A 9.5: Command descriptions A 9.5.1 General remarks A 9.5.2 dt (no argument) A 9.5.3 dt rm A 9.5.4 dt rmdir A 9.5.5 dt mv A 9.5.6 dt cp A 9.5.7 dt set A 9.5.8 dt iddump A 9.5.9 dt ls A 9.5.10 dt mkdir A 9.5.11 dt touch A 9.5.12 dt upd A 9.5.13 dt chmod A 9.5.14 dt chown A 9.5.15 dt chgrp A 9.5.16 dt idinfo A 9.6: "dt" warning messages A 9.7: Additional information A 9.7.1 General remarks A 9.7.2 Macintosh files under UNIX A 9.7.3 Default resource fork handling A 9.7.4 EtherShare and desktops A 9.7.5 "mount points" and "auto-mounter" A 9.7.6 Zero IDs A 9.7.7 Using "dt" for backup/restore A 10 Macintosh and Windows characters A 11 Glossary
