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802.11g

Multi-Port Print Server

FPS-3121G

User’s Manual

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Page 1: ...802 11g Multi Port Print Server FPS 3121G User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...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 and reserves the right to make improvements to this User s Manual and or to the products described in this User s Manual at any time without notice If you find information in this manual th...

Page 3: ...e 3 x 4 x 5 x Installation Setup 20 5 2 1 Installation with Pconsole 21 CHAPTER6 UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK 23 6 1 Introduction 23 6 2 Enable Print Server s TCP IP Support 23 6 3 Setup Print Server s IP Address 23 6 3 1 DHCP 23 6 3 2 BOOTP 23 6 4 Verify Print Server s IP Address 24 6 5 Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host 25 CHAPTER7 CONFIGURATION UTILITY 27 7 1 Introduction 27 7 2 Search Search for...

Page 4: ...8 3 6 NetWare 62 8 3 7 AppleTalk 62 8 3 8 Rendezvous 63 8 4 Setup Wizard 63 8 4 1 System 63 8 4 2 Wireless 64 8 4 3 TCP IP 67 8 4 4 SMB 68 8 4 5 SNMP 69 8 4 6 NetWare 69 8 4 7 AppleTalk 70 8 4 8 Rendezvous 71 8 5 System Tools 71 8 5 1 Load Default 71 8 5 2 Upgrade Firmware 72 8 5 3 Backup Setting 72 CHAPTER9 IPP PRINTING 73 9 1 Introduction 73 9 2 System Setup 73 9 2 1 Print Server Side 73 9 2 2 C...

Page 5: ...h the help of Installation Wizard you can easily and instantly complete the settings for your printing environment and start enjoying the fantastic features provided by this print server In the following chapters we will introduce in detail the printing features installation methods and system configuration for different network environments 1 2 Product Package This package contains the following ...

Page 6: ...o Peer Printing TCP IP LPR SMB IPP Printing NetWare Bindery Printing AppleTalk 1 5 LED Indicators LED Color Description PWR Green Off Printserver is not power on On Printserver is working WLAN Green Off Wireless interface is disable Blink Wireless interface is enable P1 Green Off Parallel port is no connected On Parallel port is connected Blink Data transferring P2 Green Off USB printer is not con...

Page 7: ...ce Frequency 2 4 to 2 4835 GHz ISM Band Standards IEEE802 11b IEEE802 11g Encryption 64 128 Bit WEP WPA PSK Data Rate 802 11b 1 2 5 5 11Mbps 802 11g 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54Mbps Output Power 18 dBm max General Printer Ports 1 x Parallel Port 2 x USB 2 0 Management Tools Server Manager Windows Application Web based management HTTP Dimension 187 106 30 mm Weight 280g Power Supply 12VDC 1A Emission FCC ...

Page 8: ...pter from any sources NOTE2 The wireless interface of FPS 3121G is Disabled by default If you want to activate wireless interface please refer to section 7 11 Wireless to know more information for how to setup wireless interface 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 s...

Page 9: ...o 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...

Page 10: ... click the Start button and choose Run Suppose E is your CD ROM drive When the 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 ...

Page 11: ...t to install It is highly recommended to install all provided components in administrator installation Please click Next 5 Specify the program folder name where the program icons will be add to Please click Next to start installation ...

Page 12: ...ox will be displayed as following Please select the print server and click Next 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 NOTE If this is the first time you configure the print server the Print Server Name Alias Name will be the same as the Device Name printed at the bottom of the prin...

Page 13: ...not supported About the TCP IP you can either assign a fixed IP address for the print server or 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 14: ... IP address z Add the network port of the print server to the administrator s PC Now you have completed the administrator s setup for most of the network environment You can then perform the Client Installation procedure section 3 4 on all client s sides 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 Printe...

Page 15: ... suitable printer manufacturer and model then click Next Step5 Choose the Print Server s Network Port which was created by the administrator installation process and click Next Step6 Complete the rest of the questions to finish the network printer setup ...

Page 16: ...to the printer through the newly installed print server Please be aware that Network Ports Quick Setup utility can only detect and configure all print servers on the same network it cannot search and configure print servers on other subnets across network segments You must use Remote Ports utility described in the next section to manage remote across network segments print servers 2 Remote Ports R...

Page 17: ...int Server Configuration Complete print server management tool see chapter 7 Print Server Configuration 4 Uninstall Assistant for removing all 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...

Page 18: ...Clients just need to install Peer To Peer driver so it is no need to install the Configuration Utility to the client PC ...

Page 19: ...nection PTP between Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 Server and Print Server Step1 Please install the administrator software on Windows Server You may refer to section 3 2 for installation instructions Step2 Please add configure the Peer to Peer Printing of the Windows network printer and verify that you can print from Windows Server to the print server by the installed PTP driver Step3 Share the Windows S...

Page 20: ... embedding the NetWare network printing functionality in the print server include z Installation is easier and quicker z Network management is easier z Printing performance is enhanced z Relieve NetWare file server s burden z Relieve the need of a workstation running the remote printer utility z Improve productivity by locating the printer near the workgroup Each print server should log into a Net...

Page 21: ...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 22: ...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 23: ... 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 24: ...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 25: ...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 26: ...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 27: ... the following configuration and management functions Search Print Server Search all available Print Servers 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 AppleTalk protocol setting Rend...

Page 28: ...al seconds because the utility is using system s available network protocols to search 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 windo...

Page 29: ...yed 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 Rebo...

Page 30: ... 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 User Name and Password The default User Name and Password are admin ...

Page 31: ...me 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 User Name Password You can change the User Name and Password as y...

Page 32: ...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 33: ...ling 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 Attached Queue is the name of the printer queue on the NetWare server The printer queue keeps all printing jobs waiting on the NetWare server You have to assign a printer queue for each printer ...

Page 34: ...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 35: ...he client utility uses this name to access the printer port 7 9 1 Rendezvous Uses in MAC OS 10 2 For the printer connection the Mac OS 10 2 Print Center application uses Rendezvous to discover Rendezvous enabled printers on the network When you add your computer to a network Print Center automatically discovers the available printers All you have to do is selecting the one you want to use and then...

Page 36: ...Center Press and hold the Option key click the Add button 2 Select Rendezvous from the pop up menu 3 When clicking the Rendezvous item the following window appears to display the connected Rendezvous enabled printers ...

Page 37: ...4 Select the desired printer and the following pop up menu displays the printer s manufacturer Select Generic 5 The printer is installed into the system successfully ...

Page 38: ...o update the newest firmware of the print server Click button and select the correct firmware in you PC s storage After selecting the firmware file click the Upgrade button and wait for finish the firmware update process Wireless Function You can select Enable or Disable to manually enable or disable the wireless function If you manually enable wireless function the print server wireless interface...

Page 39: ...he wireless LAN settings unplug the Ethernet cable and power off on the print server then you can start to use the print server via wireless interface If the wireless configuration does not work please plug the Ethernet cable again restart the print server and configure the print server through Ethernet until the wireless LAN settings are correct When the Wireless interface work correctly if you d...

Page 40: ...tinue 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 please click Scan to search again ...

Page 41: ... 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 42: ...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 y 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 AS...

Page 43: ...set of shared key y WPA Algorithms WPA Algorithms gives two encryption methods TKIP and AES with dynamic encryption key Select the type of algorithms TKIP or AES y 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 44: ...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 45: ... 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 46: ... 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 47: ...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 y 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 AS...

Page 48: ...set of shared key y WPA Algorithms WPA Algorithms gives two encryption methods TKIP and AES with dynamic encryption key Select the type of algorithms TKIP or AES y 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 49: ...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 50: ... showed on the right side of the window Double click the Print Server Wizard the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup 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 for detail information ...

Page 51: ...Step 2 Select to enable required printing protocol Please refer to section 7 10 for detail information ...

Page 52: ...Step 3 Setup the IP of this print 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 53: ...Step 5 Setup the Rendezvous settings Please refer to section 7 9 for detail information Step 6 Setup the NetWare printing Please refer to section 7 7 for detail information ...

Page 54: ...Step 7 Setup the Wireless interface If you are select Infrastructure mode please refer to section 7 11 1 for detail information For Ad Hoc mode please refer to section 7 11 2 ...

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Page 56: ...l show you the total settings of this print server If those settings are correct please press Save for next step to save the settings or press Cancel or Back button to modify the settings as you need Step 9 Please press Yes to save the settings ...

Page 57: ...con 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 58: ...ly enter 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 ...

Page 59: ...formation such as Device Name Print Server Name Model Type System Up Time Firmware Version MAC Address and other information When you click the System Information screen you will see the Wireless Configuration screen as below Click again the System Information screen will be back ...

Page 60: ...8 3 2 Printer This page will display the information of printers connected to all printer ports 8 3 3 TCP IP This page lists all TCP IP Settings include IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway ...

Page 61: ...8 3 4 SMB This page will show the SMB Group Name 8 3 5 SNMP This page will show the SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location If the settings are empty this page will show you the settings Disabled ...

Page 62: ...e settings include Polling Time Use Bindery Mode Name of the File Server and Queue Name of each Port 8 3 7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings include AppleTalk Zone Name and Printer Type of printers connected to all print ports ...

Page 63: ... 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 Port Name The name of the printer port Each printer port has to be assigned a name The printserver driver uses this name to access the printer port ...

Page 64: ...matically search for an available access point and associate with it Mode is the operation mode of wireless station You can choose ether Ad Hoc 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...

Page 65: ...Key Length You can choose 64 bit to use WEP with 64 bit key length encryption or choose 128 bit to use WEP with 128 bit key length encryption The longer key length can provide better security but worse transmission throughput y PassPhrase A passphrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server ...

Page 66: ...ters as the encryption keys For example 01234567890123456789abcdef or administrator WPA shared key Security Mode When WPA shared key also named WPA PSK requires users to select the advanced encryption methods i e TKIP and enter a set of shared key y WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Provides two encryption methods TKIP and AES with dynamic encryption key Select the type of algorithms TKIP or AES y Pre shar...

Page 67: ...SSID BSSID Channel Type Encryption and Signal Strength You can select one wireless device in the list for this print server to associate with or you have to use General Setting to manually setup the wireless parameters There is WLAN Function setting for you to setup Auto Disable Enable wireless function of the print server here Please refer to section 8 4 2 1 to know more about the setting 8 4 3 T...

Page 68: ...utomatically Or you can select Disable Use the following TCP IP settings to manually assign IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway for the print server 8 4 4 SMB You may Enable Disable the SMB Printing protocl 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 Neighbo...

Page 69: ...nagement tool to monitor from a remote site You can Enable this protocol and set the SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location in this page SNMP System Contact Text Field Name of the contact person SNMP System Location Text Field Location of the contact person 8 4 6 NetWare ...

Page 70: ...rver You have to assign a printer queue for each printer port of this print server 8 4 7 AppleTalk AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes The print server can use these parameters to join the AppleTalk network and share the printer to other AppleTalk workstations When you select Enable you have to setup the Zone Name and Printer Type for each printer port of this prin...

Page 71: ...s protocol When you select Enable you have to setup the Port Service Name for each printer port of this print server Port Service Name The name will show to MAC OS when it be found 8 5 System Tools 8 5 1 Load Default You can restore print server to factory default settings in this screen All of your previous configuration will be cleared ...

Page 72: ...new firmware and then click OK the firmware will be updated in several minutes 8 5 3 Backup Setting In this page you can backup currect configuration into a config file When you want to work with old configuration Please select Restore Settings form file and click Browse to find out the config file then press OK to restore ...

Page 73: ...server has correct IP settings If you want to share the printers to Internet users you have to set a public 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...

Page 74: ...e last number 631 is IPP standard port number One example of the URL is 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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