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Print Server

User’s Manual

Version: 2.0

(January, 2006)

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Page 1: ...Print Server User s Manual Version 2 0 January 2006...

Page 2: ...modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the authority to operate equipment DISCLAIMER This company makes no representations or warranties either expres...

Page 3: ...3 WINDOWS PEER TO PEER NETWORK 15 3 1 System Architecture 16 3 2 Administrator Installation and Setup 18 3 3 Administrator Utilities 25 3 4 Client Installation and Setup 26 3 5 Client Utilities 31 3 5...

Page 4: ...2 Search for All Available Print Server 65 7 3 Status of Print Server 66 7 4 Setup the Print Server 68 7 5 General Configuration 70 7 6 TCP IP Configuration 71 7 7 Netware Print Server Configuration...

Page 5: ...95 8 4 3 SMB 96 8 4 4 SNMP 97 8 4 5 NetWare 98 8 4 6 AppleTalk 99 8 4 7 Save Settings 100 8 5 System Tools 101 8 5 1 Load Default 101 8 5 2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser 102 9 IPP PRINTING 103 9 1 In...

Page 6: ...1 1 Introduction...

Page 7: ...AppleTalk protocols It is the best network printing solutions for various common network operating systems such as Windows 95 98SE Me NT 2000 XP 2003 NetWare Unix Linux and MAC OS etc With the help o...

Page 8: ...2 Product Package This package contains the following components One Print Server One Power Adapter One Quick Installation Guide One CD ROM Including all the software utilities drivers and User s Man...

Page 9: ...ly the chapters you need according to your network operating system by Contents of the User s Manual in next section This section will first introduce the role every component plays in the network pri...

Page 10: ...Server Because print server supports IPX SPX NetBEUI TCP IP and AppleTalk network protocols any networked computer can directly print to the print server from any of its installed protocol 1 3 2 Netwo...

Page 11: ...for Windows 95 98SE Me NT 2000 XP 2003 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...

Page 12: ...rver MIS 1 UNIX Linux UNIX include HP UX SCO Unix SunOS Solaris Unixware DECUnix IBM AIX and others and Linux use the system standard LPR to print through print server MAC OS MAC OS can use the system...

Page 13: ...t server system provides PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver and utilities for Windows NT 2000 2003 After PTPP is installed the server can directly print through print server Adding this printing functi...

Page 14: ...r will use TCP IP protocol to print through print server Windows NT 2000 2003 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows NT 2000 2003 Adding th...

Page 15: ...10 NetWare Network see below...

Page 16: ...to read depending on your network printing s requirement Chapter 7 and chapter 8 introduce print server s management and configuration utilities on Windows and Web Browser s environment respectively...

Page 17: ...12 Available Ports in Network Ports Quick Setup in Windows XP SP2...

Page 18: ...e Printing Function The print server provides a complete network printing solution The feature set is listed below PTPP Peer to Peer Printing TCP IP LPR IPP Printing NetWare Bindery Printing AppleTalk...

Page 19: ...rver 4 Connect the power adapter to the print server The print server will perform the Power On Self Test POST after it is powered on During the POST the Status and Ready LEDs will be on When the LEDs...

Page 20: ...15 3 Windows Peer to Peer Network...

Page 21: ...nstallation procedure users can immediately enjoy the convenience of network printing Installation procedure is separated into following two parts 1 Administrator Installation and Setup refer to secti...

Page 22: ...s 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...

Page 23: ...k protocol is installed on your PC TCP IP IPX and or NetBEUI It will be helpful in your installation process 1 Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD ROM drive The Autorun exe...

Page 24: ...Utilities Setup window will be displayed Click Next 4 Click Next to install the utilities in the default folder or click Browse to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the u...

Page 25: ...Select the components you want to install It is highly recommended to install all provided components Click Next to continue 6 Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to click...

Page 26: ...lities automatically 8 You have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print Server The Choose Print Server will list all Print Servers within the network Select the Print Serve...

Page 27: ...t Server the Print Server Name is the last 6 digit of MAC ID with prefix PS Please check the MAC ID on the print server NOTE 2 The list can only display the devices from the same manufacturer 9 Specif...

Page 28: ...y or click Next to keep default IP Address i e 192 168 2 2 11 The configuration summary is displayed in the window Now you have completed the Print Server Setup Click Finish and your system will add n...

Page 29: ...ng tasks Install all utilities and drivers 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 adm...

Page 30: ...f print servers within the network to your PC Print Server Configuration Allows you to configure the print server s IP Address network protocols and other advanced functions Please refer to Chapter 7...

Page 31: ...onfirm that your PC has connected to the network and installed at least one network protocol 1 Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD ROM drive The Autorun exe program should b...

Page 32: ...Utilities Setup window will be displayed Click Next 4 Click Next to install the utilities in the default folder or click Browse to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the u...

Page 33: ...28 5 Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to click Next 6 The system will start to install the utilities automatically...

Page 34: ...ports of the Print Servers detected on the network will be added to your PC automatically click Continue Note that if there are no print servers detected in the network currently please click Continu...

Page 35: ...have completed the following tasks Install all utilities and drivers to the client s PC Add all the print server s network ports of the network to the client s PC You can then perform the Windows sta...

Page 36: ...Setup Remote Ports Uninstall Network Driver The Uninstall Network Driver will assist you in removing all installed client software The other two tools are described as follows 3 5 1 Network Ports Quic...

Page 37: ...puter see below If you have just installed another new print server in the network you must run this program first This program will search for new print servers and allow you to add the new network p...

Page 38: ...Available Ports list and click to add ports If you want to add all available ports please click To cancel some of the network ports or all ports from the Chosen Ports list please click or 3 5 2 Remot...

Page 39: ...Step2 Enter print server s name IP address select used ports and enter LPR queue name of each port Click Ok Step3 The new remote print port is displayed as follows In order to use the remote printing...

Page 40: ...35 select your printer port as the newly added remote printer port...

Page 41: ...rogram you can follow the procedure described below to add printer to the Windows Note that following Add Printer steps are running in Windows XP the steps in other Operating Systems are similar Step1...

Page 42: ...and make sure that Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer is not selected Click Next Step5 Choose the suitable Print Server Network Port which was created by the Administrator Inst...

Page 43: ...d the printer model and click Next If your printer is not in the list click Have Disk to install the driver of the printer After installation the printer model will be added to the list Step7 Name you...

Page 44: ...ose to print the test page or not It is recommended to print a test page Click Next Step9 You have added the printer to the PC successfully The information of the printer is displayed in the windows C...

Page 45: ...40 4 Windows NT 2000 2003 Network...

Page 46: ...ous chapter we also offer the Server Based Printing architecture for Windows NT 2000 2003 server Only one Windows NT 2000 2003 is required to have Windows PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver installed a...

Page 47: ...n Windows NT 2000 2003 server first Refer to section 3 2 for installation instructions If your network has already installed a working print server and your Windows NT 2000 2003 server has not yet ins...

Page 48: ...43 Step3 Share the above server s printer to the network by performing the standard Windows printer sharing process...

Page 49: ...ed client side will be able to find the server s shared printer in Network Neighborhood You only need to perform Window s standard Add New Printer procedure select Network Printer shown in the screen...

Page 50: ...45 5 NetWare Network...

Page 51: ...NetWare print server PSERVER program running on the NetWare server A user first prints a job at a workstation the job is routed to a NetWare server the NetWare server stores the job in a print queue a...

Page 52: ...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 server before servicing the print jobs E...

Page 53: ...guring as Print Server Mode 1 Run the NetWare PCONSOLE program 2 Change the current file server if necessary using the Change Current File Server menu selection 3 Choose the Print Queue Information me...

Page 54: ...ntical to the PSxxxxxx name printed on the label of the print server 9 Press Enter to select the newly created print server 10 Select Print Server Configuration 11 Select Printer Configuration 12 Sele...

Page 55: ...then select Printer 0 or Printer 1 Printer 2 and press Enter 15 Press Insert and add your newly created print queue to the list of queues serviced by the printer Enter a priority number for the queue...

Page 56: ...ver you have is with multiple printer connectors you may create multiple print queues and printer objects Your print server should now be ready to use You should be able to redirect printing to your p...

Page 57: ...52 6 UNIX System Network...

Page 58: ...your Unix system to allow printing to the print server The configuration examples in this manual follow the syntax for BSD based Unix systems Please refer to the related system documentation for the...

Page 59: ...ble Print Server s TCP IP Support The 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 configuratio...

Page 60: ...t support DHCP protocol and the procedures to configure the DHCP server database are different This manual does not describe the DHCP server configuration on the Unix systems It is highly recommended...

Page 61: ...ess to the etc hosts file by adding a line such as 203 66 191 12 pserver 2 Add an entry to the host s etc bootptab file similar to the following hostname ht 1 ha print_server_ethernet_address ip print...

Page 62: ...the following configuration Node ID 0000B4010101 this implies Ethernet address is 0000B4010101 IP address 203 66 191 12 The entry for this print server in the etc bootptab file should be PS010101 ht...

Page 63: ...58 6 4 Verify Print Server s IP Address To verify that your print server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command ping ip address...

Page 64: ...The host name should be the name or IP address that you have assigned to the print server 3 The printer name or queue name on the remote host should be lpt1 lpt2 or lpt3 the name of the printer port o...

Page 65: ...s should be indented with tabs More than one printer name can be used with variants separated by vertical bars name1 name2 The rm entry should correspond to the IP address you have assigned to the pri...

Page 66: ...61 The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host...

Page 67: ...62 7 Configuration Utility...

Page 68: ...ns for print server itself it does not include configuration functions for client side or other file server or NetWare server in the network environment The Configuration Utility provides the followin...

Page 69: ...Group Name System Configuration Print Server Network Ability Setting and Firmware Upgrade Setup Wizard Guide You Through All the Settings Report List the Status of All Available Print Servers on the...

Page 70: ...conds 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 Server Group on the left side of...

Page 71: ...of the print server displayed 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 su...

Page 72: ...67 You can restart the print server by pressing the Reboot button...

Page 73: ...he current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window Double click one of the icons to set up the selected print server A screen will pop up to verify User Name and Password...

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Page 75: ...this page You also can configure the Server Name User Name and Password here Server Name the name of the print server You can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the...

Page 76: ...e TCP IP configuration window will pop up You can configure the print server to automatically get IP from DHCP server or manually specify static IP The print server also has a built in DHCP server You...

Page 77: ...button to enter the DHCP server s setting page You can Enable Disable the DHCP server or set Auto and assign a range of IP addresses here The DHCP server is disabled by default If Auto is selected th...

Page 78: ...riodically 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 print...

Page 79: ...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...

Page 80: ...l pop up Contact You can enter the print server administrator s contact information here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool Location You can enter the installed location of...

Page 81: ...me group before they can use this print server by SMB protocol Pass Job when Error Occurred When the printer is interrupted because of paper out or off line while printing user can set the interval ti...

Page 82: ...or this print server and load factory defaults to the print server Upgrade Firmware You can use this Upgrade Firmware tool to update the newest firmware of the print server Click button and select the...

Page 83: ...on on the tool bar the setup wizard item of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window Double click the Print Server Setup Wizard the setup wizard will guide you...

Page 84: ...79 Step 1 Set up the name of this print server Step 2 Select to enable required printing protocol Please refer to section 7 11 for detail information...

Page 85: ...0 Step 3 Setup the IP of this print server and the DHCP server Please refer to section 7 6 for detail information Step 4 Setup the AppleTalk printing Please refer to section 7 8 for detail information...

Page 86: ...81 Step 5 Setup the NetWare printing Please refer to section 7 7 for detail information Step 6 Click Save to finish setting Please reboot the print server to let these settings take effect...

Page 87: ...icon on the tool bar the Report window will pop up The report lists basic information of all available print servers on the network The information includes Device Name MAC ID Model Type and Firmware...

Page 88: ...83 8 Web Management...

Page 89: ...figure and manage print server s various main functions in browsers Simply enter print server s IP address into your browser s address field to manage a print server by print server s built in Web Ser...

Page 90: ...r configure the settings of the print server After entering the IP address of the print server a login page display You have to enter correct User Name and Password before going to the Web Management...

Page 91: ...86 8 3 Device Status 8 3 1 System System Information includes Device Name Print Server Name Model Type Firmware Version MAC Address and the protocols enabled status etc...

Page 92: ...87 8 3 2 Printer This page lists information of printer connected to the printer port...

Page 93: ...88 8 3 3 TCP IP This page lists all TCP IP settings of the print server including IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway It also lists DHCP server setting...

Page 94: ...89 8 3 4 SMB This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the print server...

Page 95: ...90 8 3 5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP settings of the print server It includes the settings of SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location...

Page 96: ...91 8 3 6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings including Polling Time Use Bindery Mode Name of the File Server and Port Attached Queue...

Page 97: ...92 8 3 7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings including AppleTalk Zone Name and Printer Type of the printer connected to the print port...

Page 98: ...can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the print server by the administration and client utilities Password enter the password you want to change to the print server...

Page 99: ...94 8 4 1 1 Advanced Settings You can enable disable the printing protocols from the screen To enable the function please select Enable to disable the function please select Disable...

Page 100: ...r to automatically get an IP from DHCP server select Enable Obtain TCP IP Settings Automatically Use DHCP BOOTP You also can select Disable Use the following TCP IP Settings to manually assign IP Addr...

Page 101: ...the network 8 4 3 SMB You can enable disable the SMB protocol from here If SMB is enabled enter the SMB Group Name to specify the SMB group that this print server belongs to All PC should join the sa...

Page 102: ...ed please set up the following parameters SNMP System Contact You can enter the print server administrator s contact information here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool SNM...

Page 103: ...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 pri...

Page 104: ...enable or disable AppleTalk and setup the Zone Name and Printer Type for each printer port of this print server AppleTalk Enable Enable or disable AppleTalk AppleTalk Zone Name Print server has to jo...

Page 105: ...pe the type of printer attached to each printer port You can get the printer type from the manufacturer of the printer 8 4 7 Save Settings You can click the Save Settings to save the settings and rest...

Page 106: ...101 8 5 System Tools 8 5 1 Load Default You can use this page to restore the factory default settings All of your previous setup will be cleared...

Page 107: ...in this page Click Browse to select the new firmware in your storage and then click OK the firmware will be updated in several minutes Be aware that if you have started upgrading firmware you have to...

Page 108: ...103 9 IPP Printing...

Page 109: ...rver can support IPP printing by default It is needless to do any setting Any PC that can support IPP printing for example Windows 2000 XP can directly uses the print server by IP By using the IPP pri...

Page 110: ...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...

Page 111: ...106 Step3 The Add Printer Wizard is displayed Click Next Step4 Select A network printer or a printer attached to another computer Click Next...

Page 112: ...L format is http IP 631 Port Name The IP should be the print server s IP The number 631 is IPP standard port number Port Name is the port name of print server that your printer is connected to The def...

Page 113: ...printer model and click Next If your printer is not in the list click Have Disk to install the driver of the printer After installation the printer model will be added to the list Step7 Choose to set...

Page 114: ...109 Step8 You have added the network printer to the PC successfully The information of the printer is displayed in the windows Click Finish...

Page 115: ...owed the communications data passed through the XP SP2 s firewall In case that you do not find any print server listed on the Available Ports in Network Ports Quick Setup please follow the steps below...

Page 116: ...111 Step3 Select Advanced tab and click Settings...

Page 117: ...112 Step4 Select Exceptions tab and click Add Program...

Page 118: ...113 Step5 Click Browse to add a new program Step6 Open the NPUtil file from C Program Files PrintServer Utilities where C is the system drive...

Page 119: ...114 Step7 A new program Network Ports Quick Setup is displayed in the list click Ok...

Page 120: ...115 Step8 Click Ok You have completed the setting The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program...

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