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Page 1: ...iprotocol Ethernet Fast Ethernet Print Server Administration Guide Information in this document is subject to change without notice All rights reserved All brand names are registered trademarks of the...

Page 2: ...tation without permission from the authors Trademarks All trademarks belong to their respective owners Limited Warranty The software and reference material are provided as are without warranty as to t...

Page 3: ...rver 11 SETTING UP NOVELL NETWARE 3 X PRINTING 11 Introduction to Novell NetWare Printing 11 Setting up as a NetWare Print Server 13 Setting up as a NetWare Remote Printer 15 Printing from Client Work...

Page 4: ...TCP IP Network Settings 43 Allowing SNMP based Management 44 Setting up SNMP Traps 45 Printing Text Files from Unix 45 Printing from BSD Unix Versions 46 Printing from SCO Unix System V 386 47 Printin...

Page 5: ...Admin 64 Accessing the Telnet Interface 65 Changing TCP IP Settings 65 Changing Server Settings 67 Changing the Print Server Password 68 Changing Port Settings 69 Changing AppleTalk Settings 70 Displa...

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Page 7: ...o power and to your printer s is covered in the print server s hardware User s Guide Contents of the User s Guide This User s Guide is divided into three parts Part I gives an overview of your HyperNe...

Page 8: ...ifficult if more than two computers share a printer Server based network operating systems such as Novell NetWare make it possible for a larger number of users to share printers When a workstation use...

Page 9: ...eatures HyperNet Fastprint print servers can be centrally administered using the EtherP Admin program making it convenient to manage all of your Ehter P series print servers from a single Windows base...

Page 10: ...r NDIS or ODI You should also check your computer s settings If you are using a screen resolution larger than 640 x 480 standard VGA the EtherP Admin display will look best if you use a Small Fonts se...

Page 11: ...an the one shown click the Browse button to select it Click the Next button to continue the installation 5 The setup program will copy EtherP Admin program files to the directory you selected as well...

Page 12: ...word to protect your print server s settings from unauthorized modifications Choosing names for the print server s individual printer ports and changing the port settings Testing the operation of the...

Page 13: ...splay 2 Choose Server Device from the Configuration menu or press the Configure Server button in the toolbar If you have already assigned a password to the server you will have to enter it at this poi...

Page 14: ...r and press OK 4 EtherP Admin will ask you to confirm your new password Enter the password a second time and press OK 5 Choose Save Configuration from the Configuration menu or press the Save Configur...

Page 15: ...igned a password to the server you will have to enter it at this point EtherP Admin will display the Server Device Configuration window 3 Press the button corresponding to the port you wish to change...

Page 16: ...printers use a non parity serial protocol XON XOFF Flow Control Determines whether or not the print server should respond to software flow control requests from the printer When software flow control...

Page 17: ...that do not accept plain text files Setting up Novell NetWare 3 x Printing This chapter explains how you can set up your HyperNet Fastprint print server so that clients of your Novell NetWare 3 x serv...

Page 18: ...od The file server makes its queues available to print servers which may be located on the same server on a different server or in a stand alone print server device such as the HyperNet Fastprint netw...

Page 19: ...printing and the remote printer software may be incompatible with software used on the remote printer workstation The HyperNet Fastprint print server acts as a NetWare print server scanning the print...

Page 20: ...igure NetWare button in the toolbar Click on the Bindery Print Server tab 4 Click on the port button corresponding to the port you want to serve the print queue 5 Click on the name of the NetWare file...

Page 21: ...nter Your network print server can also be set up as NetWare remote printer This allows slightly easier administration but may increase printing delays To set up a printer port as a remote printer por...

Page 22: ...hange the settings in the print server and the NetWare server The print server will restart itself and begin serving as a remote printer for the specified print server Printing from Client Workstation...

Page 23: ...L As an alternative to entering the network path you can also use the Browse button to locate the file server and print queue Press the Next button to continue 5 At this point Windows will ask you to...

Page 24: ...ithin it Windows will display the Printers folder 2 Double click on the Add Printer icon in the Printers folder Windows will start the Add Printer Wizard 3 Choose the Network printer server selection...

Page 25: ...button to complete installation Windows NT 3 51 Client Workstations To access a NetWare 3 x printer queue from your Windows NT 3 51 workstation 1 Double click on the Print Manager icon found in the Ma...

Page 26: ...rint Manager will display the Printers dialog window 3 If necessary click on the Add button Choose the correct printer driver and click Install 4 When the printer driver has been correctly installed s...

Page 27: ...y default your login file server is used Q queue Determines which print queue your print jobs are redirected to TI n Sets the timeout for Autoendcap After your application starts printing if it goes f...

Page 28: ...program you can define different forms which identify the different types of paper that the printer can use e g plain letterhead legal A4 B4 etc Print jobs may specify what print form they wish to us...

Page 29: ...he main disadvantage of the Bindery database is that it is limited to a single server Networks with a large number of servers can become difficult to manage because each server has to be configured se...

Page 30: ...r information about using PCONSOLE or NETADMIN to perform the setup To configure your print server for NetWare NDS printing 1 Start the NWADMIN program Expand the tree to display the context in the tr...

Page 31: ...Press OK to finish making print queue assignments for the printer 7 Repeat from step 4 for each print server port you will be using 8 Select the context again and choose Create from the Object menu Ch...

Page 32: ...Save Configuration from the Configuration menu or press the Save Configuration toolbar button to change the settings in the print server The print server will restart itself and begin serving the prin...

Page 33: ...tWare NDS contexts accessible from your network 7 Enter the name of the context you will be using and enter the name of the print server in that context 8 Determine what printer numbers are available...

Page 34: ...d 3 Choose the Network printer server selection and click the Next button to continue 4 Locate the print queue you wish to attach to in the browser and click OK NetWare NDS contexts may be found benea...

Page 35: ...ll display the Printers dialog window 3 If necessary click on the Add button Choose the correct printer driver and click Install 4 When the printer driver has been correctly installed select the print...

Page 36: ...on to accessing files and printers on a central server any workstation can share its file directories and printer ports making them accessible to other workstations HyperNet Fastprint network print se...

Page 37: ...can display by choosing NetBEUI Protocol from the Configuration menu Each Microsoft Networking workstation or server has a workgroup name The workgroup name determines what servers and resources will...

Page 38: ...ed to your HyperNet Fastprint network print server Windows 95 Client Workstations To allow your Windows 95 or later workstation to print over the network directly through your network print server 1 F...

Page 39: ...s an alternative to entering the network path you can also use the Browse button to locate the print server and printer Press the Next button to continue 6 At this point Windows will ask you to choose...

Page 40: ...n the Add Printer icon in the Printers folder Windows will start the Add Printer Wizard 3 Choose the Network printer server selection and click the Next button to continue 4 Enter the network path for...

Page 41: ...led printer as the new default 8 When installation is complete Windows will display the following dialog Press the Finish button to complete installation Windows NT 3 51 Client Workstations To allow y...

Page 42: ...stprint network print server from your Windows for Workgroups 3 11 workstation 1 Start the Print Manager by double clicking its icon in the Main program group 2 From the Print Manager s Options menu c...

Page 43: ...print to that printer port will be redirected to the network printer 7 Enter the network path for your HyperNet Fastprint network print server in the Path field specifying which port you want to conne...

Page 44: ...the command NET USE port computer name printer name where port is the name of the free printer port computer name is the name of the HyperNet Fastprint print server and printer name is the name of th...

Page 45: ...r usually LPT2 or LPT3 Click the Next button to continue 5 At this point Windows will ask you to choose the correct printer driver for the printer Choose your printer s make and model from the list or...

Page 46: ...in from the Command Prompt NET USE LPT2 PS 142634 PS 142634 P1 You will need to execute this command every time the server is rebooted You may wish to place it in a batch file executed from the Start...

Page 47: ...ation menu 3 If your AppleTalk network is divided into AppleTalk zones you will have to specify which zone the print server should be in You should locate the print server in the same zone as most of...

Page 48: ...ting a PostScript printer connected to your HyperNet Fastprint print server may vary slightly depending on what printer driver version you are using The procedure described below assumes you are using...

Page 49: ...to configure the print server for TCP IP printing and how to configure your Unix workstations to print to the HyperNet Fastprint print server For TCP IP networks without a Windows based workstation av...

Page 50: ...ort the SNMP Management Information Base known as MIB II which collects basic statistics on the print server s basic TCP IP and Ethernet networking operations SNMP version 1 implements a rudimentary f...

Page 51: ...SNMP Traps box to enable the sending of SNMP traps 4 Set IP addresses and community names for each trap recipient 5 Click OK to exit the Trap Configuration dialog window when you are done Printing Te...

Page 52: ...DNS the Domain Naming Services protocol you can add an address record entry to your DNS database for the print server 3 Create a spool directory for the printer On SunOS systems create the directory...

Page 53: ...Fastprint print server the port name should be used Note this entry is case sensitive Printing from SCO Unix System V 386 To allow printing to a printer attached to your HyperNet Fastprint network pr...

Page 54: ...t up you can use the lp command to print jobs to the new printer For more information consult your SCO Unix documentation Printing from Solaris To allow printing from a Sun Solaris workstation 1 Login...

Page 55: ...otocol To print to your HyperNet Fastprint network print server from a Windows NT 4 0 workstation or server 1 Make sure that you have installed the TCP IP protocol and the Microsoft TCP IP Printing se...

Page 56: ...rinting using TFTP For testing purposes you can also use the Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP to print to the print server This is not a recommended method for ordinary printing since it will not w...

Page 57: ...therP Admin Administration 51 ftp ip address to start the ftp client program At the ftp prompt you can type put file dest port to print the local file named file to the print server port named dest po...

Page 58: ...the print server Upgrading the print server s internal flash memory using an updated flash memory file The EtherP Admin Main Window The following shows a typical EtherP Admin main window display Menu...

Page 59: ...rs section Discover Print Servers button When a new print server is added to the network you need to press the Discover New Print Servers button to update the EtherP Admin display Pressing this button...

Page 60: ...a large network you may want to use environment files to reduce the wait An environment file stores the list of servers it has discovered along with information about them To save an environment file...

Page 61: ...ed Networks Determines whether EtherP Admin should discover print servers on your local IPX network only or if it should also search other networks reachable from your workstation Pressing the More bu...

Page 62: ...information about the printer and its status Checking NetWare Print Jobs The NetWare Print Jobs window accessible from the NetWare Print Jobs selection of the Management menu can be used to monitor N...

Page 63: ...vailable on the printer Form types can be defined with the NetWare PCONSOLE program Each of the different kinds of paper that a printer might contain can be assigned a different form type and print jo...

Page 64: ...out defining print servers see the Managing Print Servers section below From the Assign Operators tab you can determine what users are allowed to operate the queue Queue operators are allowed to edit...

Page 65: ...clicking Assignments displays the Printer Assignments dialog From the Assign NetWare Print Queues tab you can determine which print queues are served by the printer adding or removing queues from the...

Page 66: ...lows you to delete it and clicking Assignments displays the Print Server Assignments dialog window From the Assign NetWare Printers tab you can define new printers in the selected print server or remo...

Page 67: ...er in order to reset its internal statistics counters or to clear other status information There are two different ways to reset the print server An ordinary reset has the same effect as powering off...

Page 68: ...be completed successfully To perform the download 1 Make sure you have backup copies of the previous version of the firmware image files before overwriting them with the new ones 2 Choose Download Fir...

Page 69: ...ics window you can display many of the print server s settings and status items allowing you to identify many types of print server problems The Configuration tab displays the print server s configura...

Page 70: ...print server s IP address and other TCP IP parameters If you don t have a Windows based workstation and you need to set your print server s address you can use a BOOTP Boot Protocol server or the man...

Page 71: ...other settings Accessing the Telnet Interface You can access your print server s telnet interface using an ordinary telnet client program On many systems the command to invoke a telnet client is teln...

Page 72: ...munity menu SNMP Community 1 Commumity Name 1 public 2 Community Access 1 Read Write 3 Commumity Name 2 4 Community Access 2 Read Only 5 Commumity Name 3 6 Community Access 3 Read Only 0 Return to TCP...

Page 73: ...ll be included in the IP request To change an IP address or community name select the appropriate menu item and enter the desired value 3 When you are done changing TCP IP settings choose 0 to return...

Page 74: ...Answer Y to confirm the save The telnet connection will drop and the print server will reset itself letting the new server configuration take effect Changing the Print Server Password The print server...

Page 75: ...to change to suit your configuration and the printer you have attached to the port Complete descriptions of each of these settings may be found in the Changing Print Server Port Settings section on pa...

Page 76: ...erver will ask for confirmation Do you really want to save the configuration y n Answer Y to confirm the save The telnet connection will drop and the print server will reset itself letting the new por...

Page 77: ...isplay Configuration selection displays several pages of information about the print server s hardware and internal software as well as its configuration settings Information about the port settings i...

Page 78: ...connection will drop and the print server will reset itself If you selected Factory Reset all of the print server s default configuration values will be restored Upgrading Print Server Firmware The pr...

Page 79: ...ownloading the BIN file When this is complete the print server will restart using the updated version of the firmware WARNING When downloading the image file be very careful not to interrupt the trans...

Page 80: ...tocol 9 LAN Manager 17 67 LaserWriter 73 74 Linux 81 lpd 76 MacOS 71 74 Management menu Device Diagnostics 110 NetWare Print Jobs 98 Printer Status 97 menu shortcuts 92 MIB II 78 Microsoft Networking...

Page 81: ...108 Factory Reset 107 Print Test 20 Reset 107 traps 79 Trivial File Transfer Protocol See TFTP Windows 3 x printing to NetWare 3 x queue 36 printing to NetWare 4 x queue 52 Windows 95 printing on Net...

Page 82: ...of the product and does not include service to repair damage resulting from accident disaster misuse abuse or non Hypertec modification of the product Additional components installed by the dealer or...

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