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EPSON

Ethernet Card Supplement

This guide includes new information about your EPSON

multiprotocol Ethernet interface card and software.

If you are using the card with Apple

Macintosh

computers on

AppleTalk

or TCP/IP networks, please disregard the Macintosh

section in your EPSON

Type B

Ethernet Interface

Card

User's

Guide

and follow the steps in this supplement.

In addition to the operating systems mentioned in the Ethernet card

User’s Guide,

the card also supports Windows 95 and Windows NT

4.x.

You’ll find the following information in this Supplement:

Initializing the Ethernet card

Using the Ethernet Card with NetWare

on a WAN

Using Macintosh with the Ethernet Card

Using TCP/IP with Windows 95

CPD5719

Summary of Contents for Ethernet Card

Page 1: ...section in your EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card User s Guide and follow the steps in this supplement In addition to the operating systems mentioned in the Ethernet card User s Guide the card also supports Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 x You ll find the following information in this Supplement CI Initializing the Ethernet card Cl Using the Ethernet Card with NetWare on a WAN Q Using Macintosh wi...

Page 2: ...cluding ISDN the card may open the dial up router and packets may be sent to the WAN To avoid this problem and possible phone fees mask the vendor code in the dial up router as shown below Vendor code 00 00 48 xx xx xx For details on how to mask the vendor code ask your network administrator or see your NetWare documentation 2 EPSON Ethernet Card Supplement Using Macintosh with the Before configur...

Page 3: ...ard for TCP IP Using EPSON Net for Macintosh Note lf you are using Macintosh computers on a NetWare network configure the card using EPSON Net for NetWare Windows from a Windows workstation or EPSON Net for NetWare DOS from a DOS workstation See your Ethernet card User s Guide for instructions lnstalling EPSON Net To install EPSON Net for Macintosh follow these steps 1 Turn on your Macintosh 2 Cre...

Page 4: ...to monitor according to their zone or address You must select a zone before you configure the Ethernet card in the Configuration dialog box Follow these steps 1 With the EPSON Net dialog box open choose Zone from the Options menu bar 2 Click a zone to select it clicking multiple zones 3 Click OK EPSON Net sends a packe current printer s status The latest information about the Sorting the Printers ...

Page 5: ... The EPSON Net dialog box shows the latest information about the printers located in that zone Sorting the Printers Follow these steps to sort the printers in the EPSON Net dialog box 1 With the EPSON Net dialog box open choose Sort from the Options menu bar 2 Click any of the sort options and click OK The EPSON Net dialog box displays the printers according to the selected sort option EPSON Ether...

Page 6: ...PSON Net for Macintosh to configure the Ethernet card for AppleTalk Note You must select a zone before you can configure the Ethernet card See page 4 for instructions 1 Open the EPSON Net folder and double click the EPSON Net icon The following window appears o T 2 Highlight the printer y 3 Click Open You see th 4 Click the AppleTalk ice your Ethernet card is c 5 Set the following optic Ci Availab...

Page 7: ...pears You can rename it If the same types of printers are connected to the network be sure to give them unique names Ll Entity Type EPSON Net displays the printer s Entity type on an AppleTalk network You don t have to set these options Li Network No You may not see this option If you do you should keep Auto selected If you want to change it click Manual and enter a number Ll AppleTalk I S You may...

Page 8: ...te If you do not know how to find out your computer s IP address or the IP address for the Ethernet card ask your network administrator or follow the instructions on page 11 2 Highlight the printer you want to configure in the list 3 Click Open to open the Configuration dialog box 4 Click the TCPAP icon shows the correct serk 5 Set the following optic box Cl II address Deter Ethernet card Ll Subne...

Page 9: ...7 Click Exit to exit EPSON Net for Macintosh After configuring the Ethernet card for TCP IP set up your printer on each Macintosh and make sure that the TCP IP network works correctly Using TCP IP in Windows 95 You can configure the Ethernet card for TCP IP if you are using Windows 95 on a TCP IP network or a Windows 95 peer to peer network Installing TCP IP in Windows 95 1 Click Start point to Se...

Page 10: ...ed to print out another status sheet 2 Double click the MS DOS Prompt icon to open a DOS prompt 3 Set up the routing table using the following command ping IP address for example ping 127 0 1 1 4 Add an entry in the ARP table that assigns an IP address to the hardware address of the Ethernet card Use the following command arp s IP address node address for example arp s 127 0 1 200 00 00 48 92 BD 9...

Page 11: ...station you are using to configure it and that you typed in the correct IP and hardware addresses Before you can print using TCP IP you need to install the Status Monitor and add a printer port See your EPSON Status Monitor 2 User s Guide for instructions Note About IP Addresses and Subnet Masks If you don t have a network administrator you can assign IP addresses in the range of 192 168 1 1 to 19...

Page 12: ...er product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks I Copyright 0 1997 by Epson America Inc 10 97 6B Printed on recycled paper with at least 10 post consumer content ...

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