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“http://192.168.12.13/lpt1:631”. After entering the URL of print server, click “Next >” and complete
the configurations afterwards to access the shared printer.

Summary of Contents for FPS-1100DG

Page 1: ...802 11g Wireless Direct Attached Print Server FPS 1100DG User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...PLANET disclaims liability for any inaccuracies or omissions that may have occurred Information in this User s Manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of PLANET PLANET assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this User s Manual PLANET makes no commitment to update or keep current the information in this User s Manual...

Page 3: ...2 Windows NT 2000 Server Installation and Setup 22 4 3 User Installation and Setup 23 CHAPTER5 NETWARE NETWORK 24 5 1 System Architecture 24 5 2 NetWare 3 x 4 x 5 x Installation Setup 24 5 2 1 Installation with Pconsole 25 CHAPTER6 UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK 27 6 1 Introduction 27 6 2 Enable Print Server s TCP IP Support 27 6 3 Setup Print Server s IP Address 27 6 3 1 DHCP 27 6 3 2 BOOTP 27 6 4 Verify Pr...

Page 4: ...P 58 8 3 4 SMB 58 8 3 5 SNMP 59 8 3 6 NetWare 59 8 3 7 AppleTalk 60 8 4 Setup Wizard 60 8 4 1 System 60 8 4 1 1 Advanced Settings 61 8 4 2 Wireless 61 8 4 3 TCP IP 66 8 4 4 SMB 67 8 4 5 SNMP 67 8 4 6 NetWare 68 8 4 7 AppleTalk 69 8 5 System Tools 70 8 5 1 Load Default 70 8 5 2 Upgrade Firmware 70 CHAPTER9 IPP PRINTING 71 9 1 Introduction 71 9 2 System Setup 71 9 2 1 Print Server Side 71 9 2 2 Clie...

Page 5: ...1 x FPS 1100DG 1 x Power Adapter 1 x Driver and User s Manual CD 1 x Quick Installation Guide 1 x Dipole Antenna 1 3 Network Printing Architecture This section illustrates how FPS 1100DG functions and operates on the network Before you install and use FPS 1100DG it is strongly suggested that you read this section completely and select only the chapters you need according to your network operating ...

Page 6: ...ples will then be illustrated through actual network environment 1 3 1 Print Server Network Functions Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows 98 Windows NT Workstation Windows 2000 Unix Print Server Print Server Because print server supports IPX TCP IP and AppleTalk network protocols any networked computer can directly print to the print server from any of its installed protocol ...

Page 7: ...rint server system provides PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver and utilities for Windows 95 98 NT 2000 XP users PTPP Peer to Peer Printing supports TCP IP protocol In the client installation procedure after PTPP Peer to Peer Printing Driver is installed into Windows the system will automatically manual configuration is also allowed search through all the print servers on the network and then add th...

Page 8: ...tions for Network Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows 98 Windows NT Workstation Windows 2000 Unix Print Server Network Server Common network servers are classified as following Windows NT 2000 Our print server system provides PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver and utilities for Windows NT 2000 After PTPP is installed the server can directly print to print server Adding this printing fun...

Page 9: ... Windows Peer to Peer Network The client s PTPP driver will use TCP IP protocol to print to print server Windows NT 2000 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows NT 2000 Adding this printing function into Windows NT 2000 Server allows print queue user authority management and many other advanced features NetWare Network see below ...

Page 10: ...pter 8 introduce print server s management and configuration utilities on Windows and Web Browser s environment respectively You may select the appropriate management utility according to the administrator s computer platform Chapter 9 introduces Print Server s IPP Printing function and setup procedure The IPP Printing provides a convenient way to print documents across the Internet by the IPP pro...

Page 11: ...refer to section 7 10 Wireless to know more information for how to setup wireless interface NOTE2 MUST use the power adapter shipped with the print server do NOT use any other power adapter from any sources NOTE3 To prevent the compatibility problem between print server and a few printer it is recommended that you power on the print server before the printer NOTE4 Please be sure your printer is no...

Page 12: ...section 3 for more detailed information Client users must install Windows PTPP driver Peer to Peer Printing for network printing In addition after PTPP is installed the system will automatically search for all print servers on the network and add the printing port of the print servers into Windows printing port refer to Network Printing Architecture in section 1 4 for more detailed information 3 2...

Page 13: ...he dialog box appears enter E Utility Setup exe and press enter key You will see the dialog box as below Please click Next to continue 3 Specify the destination folder where the utility will be installed Click Next 4 Select the components you want to install It is highly recommended to install all provided components in administrator installation Please click Next ...

Page 14: ...t installation 6 For a while the program will finish installing utility and driver you selected Thus far you have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print Server The Choose Print Server dialog box will be displayed as following Please select the print server and click Next ...

Page 15: ...7 Name the print Server you can assign an easy to memorize name for management But note that this name will be the Identifier for the Peer to Peer Printing ...

Page 16: ...t server 8 You can either assign a fixed IP address for the print server or select Don t change for configure it later by the configuration utility Please click Next 9 Configuration summary will display in this screen Now you have completed the Print Server Setup By clicking Finish your system will perform Add network port of the print server to your PC ...

Page 17: ...ure is finished Please click Finish After the installation you have completed the following tasks Install utility and driver to the administrator s PC Configure the print server including the print server name and network protocol Add the network port of the print server to the administrator s PC ...

Page 18: ...des of the network If you want to print from this administrator s PC to the print server all you need to do is to perform Windows standard Add Printer procedure as described below Step1 Click Start button choose Setting Printers Step2 Double click Add New Printer Step3 Select Local printer click Next Step4 Select a suitable printer manufacturer and model then click Next ...

Page 19: ...lder 1 Network Ports Quick Setup Network Ports Quick Setup Utility offers a very simple method to add or remove print server FPS 1100DG s printer port from the client s computer If you have just installed another new FPS 1100DG on the network you must run this program first This program will search for new FPS 1100DG and allow you to add the new network printer port into client s computer convenie...

Page 20: ...PS 1100DG 2 Remote Ports Remote Ports Utility offers a convenient way for you to manage and add printer port of the remote FPS 1100DG From the assistant of this utility you can print to other FPS 1100DG outside the subnet across network segment However please note that this function only supports TCP IP network protocol Please follow the procedures described below Step1 Run Remote Ports Utility St...

Page 21: ... installed administrator software 3 4 Client Installation and Setup The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95 98 Me NT 2000 XP and Serve2003 with the same user interface Before the installation procedure please confirm that your PC has connected to the network and installed at least one network protocol such as TCP IP or NetBEUI The installation is the same as Administrator Installati...

Page 22: ... server Only one Windows NT 2000 is required to have Windows PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver installed and share the printing service on the network Other network users can simply connect to the server and access the shared printer see below 4 2 Windows NT 2000 Server Installation and Setup Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer to peer connection PTPP...

Page 23: ...Peer to Peer Printing of the Windows NT 2000 network printer and verify that you can print from Windows NT 2000 to the print server by the installed PTPP driver Step3 Share the above server s printer to the network by performing the standard Windows printer sharing process 4 3 User Installation and Setup After server side s installation is completed client side will be able to find the server s sh...

Page 24: ...ges of embedding the NetWare network printing functionality in the print server include Installation is easier and quicker Network management is easier Printing performance is enhanced Relieve NetWare file server s burden Relieve the need of a workstation running the remote printer utility Improve productivity by locating the printer near the workgroup Each print server should log into a NetWare s...

Page 25: ...int Queue Information menu selection 4 Press the Insert key to add a new print queue 5 Type in a print queue name such as PQ or Q1 6 You have now successfully created the print queue that your print server will serve Press the Escape key until the Available Options main menu is displayed 7 Select Print Server Information 8 Press the Insert key to add a new NetWare print server object The print ser...

Page 26: ...reated print queue to the list of queues serviced by the printer Enter a priority number for the queue service or press Enter to accept the default 16 Repeatedly press Escape to exit the PCONSOLE program 17 After setup the NetWare server Please write down those settings and refer to section 7 7 to enter the settings of print server NOTE If the print server you have is with multiple printer connect...

Page 27: ... default configuration of the print server is with TCP IP support enabled Anyway you can configure the print server to enable TCP IP support using the configuration program or PSETUP program in our CD ROM included with the Print server 6 3 Setup Print Server s IP Address The print server must have a unique IP address in order to be recognized by the network You can set up the IP address on the var...

Page 28: ...tab file similar to the following hostname ht 1 ha print_server_ethernet_address ip print_server_ip_address Lines should be indented with tabs Where hostname is the device name of a print server the ht 1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet the ha tag specifies the Ethernet address of a print server which is the Node ID located on the print server The ha tag must be preceded by the ht tag T...

Page 29: ...You will need to perform the tasks below logged in as the superuser root To configure your Unix host for printing 1 Optionally assign a name corresponding to the print server s IP address You can add this address to the etc hosts file by adding a line such as 203 66 191 186 pserver 2 Create a spool directory for the printer in the same directory where spool directories are normally kept on the mac...

Page 30: ...ned one in the etc hosts file The sd entry should correspond to the spool directory you created in the previous step The rp entry should correspond to the port name of the remote printer The values should be one of lpt1 lpt2 or lpt3 depends on the printer port The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host ...

Page 31: ... Utility provides the following configuration and management functions Search Print Server Search Available FPS 1100DG and FPS 3120 on the Network Print Server Status Print Server Network Status General Configuration General Information of print server TCP IP Configuration IP Address and DHCP Server Configuration NetWare Configuration NetWare Printing Configuration AppleTalk Configuration AppleTal...

Page 32: ...ds because the utility is using system s available network protocols to search for all print servers on the network All available print servers will be listed under Print Server Group on the left side of the window You must select the print server you would like to configure from the list The system will at the same time display the selected print server s status on the right side of the window ...

Page 33: ...are MAC ID model type firmware version status of each printer port NetWare file server name NetWare file server polling interval NetWare printer queue names IP address subnet mask default gateway AppleTalk printer type AppleTalk zone and print server printing ability etc You can refresh the print server s status by pressing the Refresh icon You can restart the print server by pressing the Reboot i...

Page 34: ...he setup items of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window You can modify all settings of the print server here When you first time into one the configure options system will ask you enter Password The default Password are 1234 ...

Page 35: ...me Name of the print server You can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the print server by the administration and client utilities SMB Group Name Name of your network PCs can find this printserver in Network Neighbor and attach to this printserver as a Network Printer when they are in the same Workgroup Set User Name Password You can change the Password as your m...

Page 36: ...ure the print server to automatically obtain an IP address from DHCP server Or you can manually specify a static IP address to this print server If you need the print server to automatically obtain an IP address from LAN DHCP server select Auto IP Or you can select Specify IP to manually assign IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway for the print server ...

Page 37: ...he NetWare server printer queues for printing jobs You have to assign the NetWare server name print server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port Polling Time is the polling interval of the print server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server Default is 3 seconds NetWare Server is the name of the NetWare file server that provides printer queues ...

Page 38: ...tations You have to setup the Zone Name and Printer Type for each printer port of this print server Zone Name Print server has to join zones of AppleTalk before it can be shared to other workstations Only workstations in the same zone can share the printer If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones you should enter only in the Zone Name field Printer Type the type of printer...

Page 39: ... enable or disable the wireless function If you manually enable wireless function the print server wireless interface will be always enabled and Ethernet interface will always disabled and vice versa You also can select Auto to let the print server automatically decide to enable or disable the wireless function The print server only can work in either Ethernet or Wireless interface It cannot work ...

Page 40: ...ver and configure the print server through Ethernet until the wireless LAN settings are correct When the Wireless interface work correctly if you don t need to work with Ethernet interface you may change the Wireless Function to Enable to disable Ethernet interface You may select either Infrastructure Mode or Ad hoc Mode for this printserver to join your wireless network 7 10 1 Infrastructure Mode...

Page 41: ...ireless device that you would like to connected please click Scan to search again 3 This print server supports WEP and WPA PSK security mode If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network you have to select WEP ASCII or WEP HEX If you want to use WPA PSK you have to select WPA shared key The wireless security setting should be the same with other wireless devices in the same ne...

Page 42: ...WEP Security Mode ...

Page 43: ...hrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server This setting is only valid when the security mode is in WEP HEX Key 1 to Key 4 If the key length is 64 bit enter 10 digit Hex values or 5 digit ASCII values as the encryption keys For example 0123456aef or Guest If the key length is 128 bit enter 26 digit Hex values or 13 digit ASCI...

Page 44: ...ared key WPA Algorithms TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol changes the temporal key every 10 000 packets This insures much greater security than the standard WEP security Shared Key Enter 8 to 63 digits of ASCII format to be the key for the authentication within the network When you finish configuring the wireless security click Next to go to next step ...

Page 45: ...or manually assign the IP settings If you manually assign the IP settings you have to enter IP address subnet mask and default gateway address When you finish configuring the IP settings click Next to confirm the IP Address configuration 5 Please click Save to save the wireless configuration ...

Page 46: ... your wireless network You can let the print server automatically select the channel that is the same with the peer or manually assign a channel 2 When you are select first option to continue you will see this screen for scan the wireless network Please select the wireless device that you want to connect and click Next If you don t have see the wireless device that you would like to connected plea...

Page 47: ... to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network you have to select WEP ASCII or WEP HEX If you want to use WPA PSK you have to select WPA shared key The wireless security setting should be the same with other wireless devices in the same network WEP Security Mode ...

Page 48: ...hrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server This setting is only valid when the security mode is in WEP HEX Key 1 to Key 4 If the key length is 64 bit enter 10 digit Hex values or 5 digit ASCII values as the encryption keys For example 0123456aef or Guest If the key length is 128 bit enter 26 digit Hex values or 13 digit ASCI...

Page 49: ...ared key WPA Algorithms TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol changes the temporal key every 10 000 packets This insures much greater security than the standard WEP security Shared Key Enter 8 to 63 digits of ASCII format to be the key for the authentication within the network When you finish configuring the wireless security click Next to go to next step ...

Page 50: ...or manually assign the IP settings If you manually assign the IP settings you have to enter IP address subnet mask and default gateway address When you finish configuring the IP settings click Next to confirm the IP Address configuration 5 Please click Save to save the wireless configuration ...

Page 51: ... here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool Location You can enter the installed location of the print server here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool 7 12 Wizard Click Wizard icon on the tool bar the setup wizard item of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window ...

Page 52: ...process from next page Step 1 Setup the Print Server Name and SMB Group Name of this print server and the name of each printer port Please refer to section 7 5 and 7 9 for detail information Step 2 Select to enable required printing protocol Please refer to section 7 9 for detail information ...

Page 53: ...Step 3 Setup the IP of this print server Please refer to section 7 6 for detail information Step 4 Setup the NetWare printing Please refer to section 7 7 for detail information ...

Page 54: ... for detail information Step 6 Setup Status Summary This screen will show you the total settings of this print server If those settings are correct please press Set for next step to save the settings or press Cancel or Back button to modify the settings as you need ...

Page 55: ...3 Report Click Report icon on the tool bar the Report window will pop up The report list basic information of all available print servers on the network The information includes Device Name MAC ID Model Type Firmware Version and Status of print server ...

Page 56: ...nter print server s IP address into your browser s address field to manage a print server by print server s built in Web Server 8 2 Web Management of Print Server 8 2 1 Login You may use any Web Browser to review the status or configure the settings of the print server After entering the IP address of the print server a login dialog box display You have to enter correct User Name and Password befo...

Page 57: ...ge it will show you all the system information such as Device Name Print Server Name Model Type Firmware Version MAC Address and other information 8 3 2 Printer This page will display the information of printers connected to all printer ports ...

Page 58: ...8 3 3 TCP IP This page lists all TCP IP Settings include IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway 8 3 4 SMB This page will show the SMB Group Name ...

Page 59: ...tem Contact and SNMP System Location If the settings are empty this page will show you the settings Disabled 8 3 6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings include Polling Time Use Bindery Mode Name of the File Server and Queue Name of each Port ...

Page 60: ...ected to all print ports 8 4 Setup Wizard 8 4 1 System You also can configure the Print Server Name User Name and Password here Printer Server Name the name of the print server You can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the print server by the administration and client utilities ...

Page 61: ... correct 8 4 2 1 General Setting You can enable disable the wireless function and set parameters that are used for the wireless stations to connect to this print server from here The parameters include Function Mode ESSID and Channel Number You can manually set the parameters of wireless LAN in this page or use the Site Survey function to automatically search for an available access point and asso...

Page 62: ...oc or Infrastructure mode If you do not have any access point and want to use peer to peer connection you have to choose Ad Hoc mode If you have an access point as the wireless LAN infrastructure you have to choose Infrastructure mode ESSID is the unique name identified by in a wireless LAN The ID prevents the unintentional merging of two co located WLANs Please make sure that the ESSID of all sta...

Page 63: ... mode If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network you have to select WEP If you want to use WPA PSK you have to select WPA shared key The wireless security setting should be the same with other wireless devices in the same network WEP Security Mode ...

Page 64: ...ly generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server Default Key Select one of the four keys to encrypt your data Only the key you select it in the Default key will take effect Key 1 Key 4 The WEP keys are used to encrypt data transmitted within the wireless network Fill the text box by following the rules below 64 bit WEP input 10 digit Hex values in the A F a f and 0 9 range or 5 digit ASC...

Page 65: ...e wireless security click Save Next to confirm the configuration 8 4 2 3 Site Survey You can use this Site Survey function to search for available access points in you location In the list is the information of all available access points or wireless stations includes SSID BSSID Channel Type Encryption and Signal Strength You can select one wireless device in the list for this print server to asso...

Page 66: ...P server or manually specify a static IP address If you need the print server to automatically get an IP from DHCP server select Enable Obtain TCP IP settings automatically Or you can select Disable Use the following TCP IP settings to manually assign IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway for the print server ...

Page 67: ...of this print server When this setting enable you have to enter the SMB Group Name you should set this name as your network PCs assigned Then the PCs can find this printserver in Network Neighbor and attach to this print server as a Network Printer 8 4 5 SNMP ...

Page 68: ...of the contact person 8 4 6 NetWare This print server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method The print server periodically polls the NetWare server printer queues for printing jobs You have to assign the NetWare server name print server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port Polling Time The polling interval of the print server for waiting printing job...

Page 69: ... Name and Printer Type for each printer port of this print server Zone Name Print server has to join zones of AppleTalk before it can be shared to other workstations Only workstations in the same zone can share the printer If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones you should enter only in the Zone Name field Printer Type the type of printer attached to each printer port You...

Page 70: ...ault settings in this screen All of your previous configuration will be cleared 8 5 2 Upgrade Firmware You can upgrade new firmware for this print server in this screen Click Browse button to locate the new firmware and then click OK the firmware will be updated in several minutes ...

Page 71: ... share the printers to Internet users you have to set a real IP to the print server You also have to make sure that any gateway router or firewall does not block IPP protocol if you have these gateway devices installed in your network 9 2 2 Client Side You only need to perform Window s standard Add New Printer procedure select Network Printer shown in the screen below and click Next Select Connect...

Page 72: ... http 192 168 12 13 lpt1 631 After entering the URL of print server click Next and complete the configurations afterwards to access the shared printer ...

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