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Table of Contents

Features......................................................................................................................... 1

Safety Instructions ........................................................................................................ 2

Package Contents.......................................................................................................... 2

Physical Details ............................................................................................................ 3

Chapter 2 LAN Installation

Procedure...................................................................................................................... 5

Chapter 3 Wireless Print Server Configuration

Overview ...................................................................................................................... 7

Using the Windows Wizard.......................................................................................... 7

Chapter 4 Client PC Configuration

Overview .................................................................................................................... 10

Windows Peer-to-peer Printing .................................................................................. 12

Windows SMB Printing.............................................................................................. 19

Windows with Server-based Print Queues ................................................................. 21

Macintosh (AppleTalk)............................................................................................... 22

Macintosh OS X ......................................................................................................... 23

Chapter 5 BiAdmin Management Utility

Requirements .............................................................................................................. 24

Installation .................................................................................................................. 24

Operation .................................................................................................................... 24

Chapter 6 Web-Based Management

Overview .................................................................................................................... 39

Preparation.................................................................................................................. 39

Connecting to the WPS-0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server............................... 40

Configuration Screens ................................................................................................ 40

Chapter 7 Special Features

Overview .................................................................................................................... 47

Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) .................................................................................. 47

Internet Mail Printing ................................................................................................. 52

Printing through the Internet....................................................................................... 56

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Summary of Contents for TROY 200

Page 1: ...nt t S Se er rv ve er r TROY 200 U Us se er r G Gu ui id de e Copyright 2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Document Version 1 2 April 2004 P N 9560NT00A0 All trademark and trade names are the properties of thei...

Page 2: ...to peer Printing 12 Windows SMB Printing 19 Windows with Server based Print Queues 21 Macintosh AppleTalk 22 Macintosh OS X 23 Chapter 5 BiAdmin Management Utility 24 Requirements 24 Installation 24 O...

Page 3: ...pport 66 Regulatory Approvals 67 Appendix B Windows Server Configuration 69 Windows NT4 0 Server 69 Windows 2000 2003 Server 70 Appendix C Unix Systems 71 Overview 71 WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printe...

Page 4: ...ion The WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server makes adding printers or plotters to your network simple Easy Setup A number of utility programs are supplied to simplify setup For Windows 98SE Me NT...

Page 5: ...a tripping hazard 6 If using an extension cord makes sure the total ampere rating of the products using the cord does not exceed the extension cord s ampere rating 7 Do not attempt to service this de...

Page 6: ...Specifications WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server 1 x USB 2 0 Printer Port IEEE 802 11g 802 11b Wireless Station 10 100BaseT LAN connection Figure 1 WPS 0104 Item Description 1 Error LED 2 Sta...

Page 7: ...Restore the factory default settings Print a test page containing all current settings To restore the factory default settings 1 Turn the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server OFF 2 Press and hol...

Page 8: ...ed Network Interface Connect the network cable to the 10 100BaseT LAN connector on the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server To use the LAN interface the LAN cable needs to be inserted BEFORE powe...

Page 9: ...r up Start up will take only a few seconds Use only the Power Supply unit provided with the device Power Supply units for different models are not interchangeable 5 Check the LEDs Once start up is com...

Page 10: ...WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server using the Peer to peer Printing installed by the User setup option on the CD ROM Configuration Methods The following methods are available to perform the requ...

Page 11: ...he same Network Mask and Gateway as PCs on your LAN 7 On the Wireless Screens the settings should be set to match your other Wireless Stations For details about each setting refer to the following sec...

Page 12: ...es the Wireless mode must be set to Ad hoc In Infrastructure mode connecting a LAN cable will disable the Wireless interface Required Configuration Ad hoc Mode Infrastructure Mode SSID The 802 11g Wir...

Page 13: ...rd for using a Network Printer No additional software needs to be installed on your Windows PC and printing from MS DOS programs is supported However because the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Ser...

Page 14: ...otocol is installed on this PC Your PC will show the name of the your Network card rather than PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter The highlighted line TCP IP PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter indicates that TCP IP is...

Page 15: ...Windows 2000 XP require no additional software For other versions of Windows the supplied PTP Peer to Peer Printer Port software must be installed on each PC Windows 2000 XP Setup The recommended pri...

Page 16: ...reen 4 On the Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port screen above enter the IP Address of the Print Server in the Printer Name or IP Address field then click Next Figure 7 Additional Port Information Screen...

Page 17: ...creen shown above Select LPR in the Protocol section Enter a Queue name L1 for the USB Port Ensure the LPR Byte Counting Enabled setting is Enabled Click OK to confirm your changes and close this scre...

Page 18: ...lation Screen 3 Follow the prompts to complete the installation of the Peer to peer Printer Port Driver Refer to the Windows section of Chapter 8 Troubleshooting if there is a problem with the install...

Page 19: ...CD ROM If using TCP IP try installing the NetBEUI protocol See the earlier section Checking your Network Protocols for details Then try again 2 Select the desired port on a WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless...

Page 20: ...te You can now print using this printer To install additional Printers repeat steps 4 Use the Start menu to run this program in future The default installation is Start Programs PrintServer Driver Pri...

Page 21: ...reen is shown below Figure 12 Port Settings Peer to peer Driver Items shown on this screen are as follows Port If desired click Browse to select a different WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server I...

Page 22: ...twork then double click the appropriate Workgroup to open it Figure 13 Network Neighborhood 4 Double click the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server icon to view a Printer icon for each printer po...

Page 23: ...now appear in your Printers folder Start Settings Printers and can be used like any other printer However SMB printing is not suitable for large complex print jobs you should use the Peer to peer Prin...

Page 24: ...ue Name On Windows 98SE ME click the Browse button On Windows 2000 XP leave the field blank and click Next Figure 15 Network Path Windows 98SE ME Figure 16 Network Path Windows XP 4 Browse the network...

Page 25: ...riter 8 makes use of the fonts installed in the printer itself so the printing response time is quicker LaserWriter 7 uses the fonts installed in the computer which increases network traffic and takes...

Page 26: ...con Figure 17 Printer List 2 Click the Add Printer button 3 Choose LPR Printers Using IP Figure 18 LPR Screen 4 Enter the IP address of the Print Server in the LPR Printer s Address field and enter th...

Page 27: ...ally auto run If auto run is disabled on your PC run the SETUP exe program in the root folder Select Installation and this will give you the options for BiAdmin installation BiAdmin is always installe...

Page 28: ...inter Server is on another LAN segment use the InitDevice Attached Remote menu option to locate and display the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server Icons Device Status Menu equivalent Main Devic...

Page 29: ...less Printer Server See the following section for details Wizard This WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server Wizard allows you to do the basic configuration for the selected device The screens are...

Page 30: ...u need to know the IP address of the remote WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server If your LAN does not have a Router you can ignore this option Connected Protocol This option allows you to designa...

Page 31: ...s Printer Server Change the Password for the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server Set the Network Protocols used the selected WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server Any protocols not used on y...

Page 32: ...LAN or on the same LAN segment if you have a Router The WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server also supports the Auto IP function If the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server is set to Dynamic...

Page 33: ...Zone Name field to determine which Apple systems can gain access to this printer The Printer Type field is used to describe the printer driver used for each port Set Communication Protocol to ASCII o...

Page 34: ...er Server Set how fast jobs are sent to the printer by using the Response Time field Set the desired option for the Abort Job if Error Occured setting YES causes a print job to be terminated if a prin...

Page 35: ...e Internet Printing feature allows you to send print jobs to the Print Server using Internet E mail Please see Internet Mail Printing Configuration for details of using this feature Figure 24 Internet...

Page 36: ...Convert LF to LF CR If checked LF line feed characters are changed to CR LF carriage return line feed Prefix of Job The printer control string in hex to be sent to the printer before each print job Th...

Page 37: ...en Change the settings to suit your environment Generally you must match the settings of other Wireless stations The available settings are described below Selected Device This shows the name of the P...

Page 38: ...WPA data is encrypted using the WPA PSK standard This is a later standard than WEP and provides much better security than WEP Note WPA PSK in not available in Ah Hoc mode WEP Disable Enable If Disable...

Page 39: ...t of this setting depends on the Network Type setting In Infrastructure mode this setting has no effect The Channel is selected automatically to match the Channel used by the Access Point In Ad hoc mo...

Page 40: ...ted using the WPA PSK standard This is a later standard than WEP and provides much better security than WEP Note WPA PSK in not available in Ah Hoc mode WPA Algorithm Select the method used on your LA...

Page 41: ...l which has been used Current TX Rate The current transmitting speed Throughput Tx This will show how much data has been transmitted per second Throughput Rx This will show how much data has been rece...

Page 42: ...Server Use the Diagnostic Button if fitted to print a report which includes the current IP address Press the Diagnostic Button and hold it for 2 seconds Use the Setup Wizard BiAdmin or another WPS 010...

Page 43: ...en to another Remember to save each screen before changing to a different screen Configuration Screens The following configuration screens are available AppleTalk Figure 29 AppleTalk Screen AppleTalk...

Page 44: ...delay should be increased only if your printer cannot cope with no delays Abort Print Job if Error YES terminates a print job if a printing error occurs NO default will try to continue but may cause p...

Page 45: ...ave a Router Gateway Address Use the same values as PCs on your LAN or on the same LAN segment if you have a Router Connection Delay before reconnection attempts Sets how long the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wi...

Page 46: ...mation on which channels you are allowed to use and select a region which allows those channels The channel list changes according to the selected region Station name This is the same as the Device Ho...

Page 47: ...reen There are 3 options for Wireless security Disabled no data encryption is used WEP data is encrypted using the WEP standard WPA PSK data is encrypted using the WPA PSK standard This is a later sta...

Page 48: ...ate button to automatically configure the WEP Key s For 64 bit keys four keys fields will be generated For 128 bit keys only the selected WEP key will be generated Wireless Security WPA PSK If WPA PSK...

Page 49: ...ports can be used under Unix For each Logical Printer the following fields are available Logical Printer No Select the Logical Printer Port you wish to configure e g L1 Click the Get Data button to up...

Page 50: ...ROM The Client must also know the IP Address or URL or the IPP Server IPP Server Configuration The Print Server contains the necessary firmware to act as an IPP Server No additional configuration is n...

Page 51: ...included files 2 The IPP Setup program will then run 3 Follow the prompts to complete the installation IPP Client Configuration 1 Run the Add IPP Port program entry created by the installation A scre...

Page 52: ...d you can reach the screen shown in Figure 35 IPP Port using the Windows Port Settings button 1 Open the Printers folder Start Settings Printers 2 Right click the IPP Printer and select Properties 3 L...

Page 53: ...gure 37 Windows 2000 Locate your Printer 3 Select Connect to a printer on the Internet or on your Intranet and enter the URL of the IPP Server as follows where ip_address represents the IP Address of...

Page 54: ...ram installed with Add IPP Port to check the availability of the remote IPP Server An IPP Server may be unavailable for any of the following reasons It is powered off A printer problem has caused the...

Page 55: ...rinter Server TCIP IP Protocol The LAN must use the TCP IP protocol Mail Server Access The WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server must be able to access the Mail Server using a single IP address Ma...

Page 56: ...il Redirect Mail Account Jobs which can not be printed will be sent to this account If blank unprintable jobs will be discarded Default Printer Port Printer number for all Internet print jobs Only one...

Page 57: ...Installation of the InterNet Printing Port software will create a new printer port After attaching the correct printer to this port users can print to the Internet Printer using any Windows applicatio...

Page 58: ...ng the new Port The Windows Control Panel is used to connect the correct printer to the InterNet Printing Port In Windows NT the procedure is 1 Select the Printer which matches the remote printer then...

Page 59: ...rinter driver you are using install the correct printer driver Printing through the Internet 1 Create or open the document you wish to print 2 Select the Printer connected to the InterNet Printing Por...

Page 60: ...3 If using the Wireless Interface Ensure that WEP is disabled on your other Wireless stations If using Ad hoc mode it is not possible for Wireless stations to connect to the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireles...

Page 61: ...No 1 Some possible reasons are You may have chosen Binary encoding to print the file Try to use ASCII encoding Some of the fonts which are in your print file may not be supported by the printer Try se...

Page 62: ...op up menu in the Print Options dialog box The printer will make adjustments to match the colors Check your monitor to make sure all settings for example brightness are adjusted correctly Problem No 7...

Page 63: ...Peer Printing but when I selected a port on a WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server and clicked Add the printer was not installed Solution No 2 Try installing the Printer using the standard Window...

Page 64: ...shown below 7 Click the Add Port button On the resulting screen select Other then Printer Server as the port to add as shown below 8 Click OK to see the Print Port Configuration screen as shown below...

Page 65: ...erent but the process is identical Problem No 3 I have a Windows only printer and when I tried to install the Peer to Peer Print driver on Windows 98SE ME installation failed Solution No 3 Some Window...

Page 66: ...nd the print out is incorrect Solution No 5 The problem is due to the printer which is being configured to Start printing after the first page is spooled To change this setting Go to Control Panel Pri...

Page 67: ...en the Printers folder 2 Right click the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server s Printer and select Properties 3 On the Details tab click the Capture button to see the Capture Printer Port button...

Page 68: ...n the base of the device Use the ping command to see if the Print Server is a valid device on the network Problem No 2 The Print Server s IP address is forgotten and it needs to be installed in a new...

Page 69: ...nnecter 10 100BaseT FCC CE FCC CE Class B Environmental Specifications Operating Temperature 0 40 C Storage Temperature 10 70 C Shipping Temperature 40 70 C Operating Humidity 10 80 Storage Humidity 5...

Page 70: ...iation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment This equipment should be installed and operated with a minimum distance of 20 centimeters between the radiator and your body This devic...

Page 71: ...ment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures Page 68 CE Standards This product complies with the 99 5 EEC directives including the fo...

Page 72: ...ed by select My Computer and click Next 3 Select Add Port then select LPR Port and click New Port 4 In the Name of Address of server providing lpd Dialog box enter the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Print...

Page 73: ...cturer and Model for this printer 4 Follow the prompts to complete the installation 5 In the Printers folder right click the new printer and select Sharing Select Shared As and enter an appropriate na...

Page 74: ...vide an IP address to the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server then restart the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server Use a Windows platform and run the Setup Wizard or BiAdmin utility to all...

Page 75: ...o configure the WPS 0104 LevelOne Wireless Printer Server is to use the Web based interface as described in Chapter 6 Web based Management Ensure that the TCP IP settings are correct for your network...

Page 76: ...number of queues one for each logical printer by selecting Add a Print Queue Remote Printer attached to Remote Host Standard Processing 5 Use the following information Field Entry Name of queue to add...

Page 77: ...to spool the print jobs Procedure Action Sample Command Stop Print Services usr lib lpshut Add a System Printer usr lib lpadmin p printer_name v dev null Restart the Print Services usr lib lpsched En...

Page 78: ...raphical X windows interface instead of the command line The procedure is described below but may vary according to your version of Linux 1 Start your X windows shell 2 Select Control Panel then Print...

Page 79: ...f this directory chown daemon usr spool Spooler_dir Create read write permissions chmod 775 usr spool Spooler_dir Give permissions to LPD processes chgrp daemon usr spool Spooler_dir Add remote printe...

Page 80: ...instructions refer to your UNIX manual The following example is for a BSD system lpr P printer_name filename Where printer_name is the name of the Print Queue defined on the Unix host filename is the...

Page 81: ...r Agent 1 Login to NetWare 5 0 Server as Admin and start the NetWare Administrator program Nwadmn32 exe 2 Select the container on NetWare Administrator where you want the NDPS Manager object to reside...

Page 82: ...Public Access Printers using the NDPS Manager Object in NetWare Administrator follow this procedure 1 Start the NDPS Manager object you will be using to control the Printer Agent 2 At the Identificati...

Page 83: ...Print Server L1 for Port 1 L2 for port 2 12 Click Finish then select appropriate drivers for Windows 98SE etc as required 13 The new Printer Agent will now appear in the Printer Agent List window Rep...

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