Conceptronic C54PSERVU Wireless Print Server User’s Manual Version: 1.
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Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................ 1 1.1 Product Introduction....................................................... 1 1.2 Product Package............................................................ 1 1.3 Network Printing Architecture ........................................... 1 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 Print Server Network Functions ........................................... 2 Network Printing Functions for Clients ...................................
7. CONFIGURATION UTILITY .............................................. 32 7.1 Introduction ................................................................ 32 7.2 Search for All Available Print Server ................................... 32 7.3 Status of Print Server ..................................................... 33 7.4 Setup the Print Server .................................................... 34 7.5 AppleTalk Configuration ................................................. 35 7.
1. Introduction 1.1 Product Introduction Thank you for purchasing and using our print server. This print server allows your printer to become a shared device on the network. It offers printing flexibility and manageability on your Local Area Network at an extremely low cost and with an absolute minimum setup and maintenance required. This print server provides IEEE 802.11g/b wireless LAN (up to 54Mbps data transfer rate), an Ethernet network port (10/100Mbps Ethernet) and one print port for printer.
1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Print Server Unix Print Server NetWare ServerWindows NT Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation 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.
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 all the print servers on the network, and then add their printing ports into Windows’ printing port (see below).
1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server Network Server Unix Print Server NetWare ServerWindows NT Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation Common network servers are classified as following: Windows NT/2000/2003 Our print 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.
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1.5 Contents of the User’s Manual Chapter 2 explains print server’s hardware installation and configuration. It is strongly recommended for you to read. The following chapters introduce: Chapter 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network Chapter 4. Windows NT/2000/2003 Server-Based Network Chapter 5. NetWare Network Chapter 6. UNIX System Network You may select the appropriate chapters and sections to read depending on your network printing’s requirement.
2. Hardware Installation • • • • Unpack the print server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. Connect the print server to the printer you want to share on the network. Connect the print server to your network by attached the network cable to the UTP port of the print server. 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.
3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network 3.1 System Architecture Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable for most medium and small network environments. Through quick and simple installation 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 section 2 for more detailed information).
3.2 Administrator Installation and Setup The Administrator Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 with the same user interface. Before the installation, please verify that your network protocol is installed on your PC (TCP/IP, IPX and/or NetBEUI). It will be helpful in your installation process. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically. If not, run Autorun.
Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “Change” to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the utilities. Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue.
The system will start to install the utilities automatically. After the installation, the “Choose Print Server” will list all Print Servers within the network. Select the Print Server you would like to configure and click “Next”. NOTE 1: If this is the first time you configure the Print Server, the “Print Server Name” is the last 6-digit of MAC ID with prefix “CP”. Please check the MAC ID on the print server. Specify a recognizable name for the Print Server and click “Next”.
Specify the IP Address for the Print Server manually or click “Next” to keep default IP Address, i.e. 192.168.2.2. The configuration summary is displayed in the window. Now, you have completed the “Print Server Setup”. Click “Finish” and your system will add network port of the Print Server to your PC automatically.
The Administrator Installation procedure is totally completed. Click “Finish”. The Administrator Installation Program have executed the installation procedure that performs the following 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 administrator’s PC.
3.3 Administrator Utilities After Administrator Installation is completed, there will be four utilities in print server’s Program folder. • • • • Network Ports Quick Setup – Add the network ports of 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 for the detail instruction of the configuration.
3.4 Client Installation and Setup The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 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. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory.
Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “Change” to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the utilities. The system will start to install the utilities automatically. After the installation, all network ports of the Print Servers detected on the network will be added to your PC automatically, click “Continue”. The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”.
After the installation, you 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’ standard “Add Printer” procedure to add network printers to your PC. Please refer to Section 3.6. 3.5 Client Utilities After Client Installation is completed, there will be three tools in print server’s Program folder.
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 printer port into client’s computer conveniently. Perform the standard Add Printer procedure, then you can print directly to the printer through the newly installed print server.
Step1. Run Remote Ports Utility. Clicks “Add” to add a remote print port. 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 function, you will have to proceed with normal Add Printer procedure and select your printer port as the newly added remote printer port.
3.6 Windows Add Printer Procedure After adding a “Network Port” of the print server to your PC by Administrator or Client Installation Program, 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. Step2. Step3. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Printers and Faxes”. Click “Add a Printer”. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”.
Step4. Select “Local printer attached to this computer” 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 Installation or Client Installation process and click “Next”. Step6. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click “Next”. If your printer is not in the list, click “Have Disk…” to install the driver of the printer.
Step7. Name your printer and setup the default printer, click “Next”. Step8. Choose 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. Click “Finish”.
4. Windows NT/2000/2003 Network 4.1 System Architecture In Windows network environment, other than the Peer-to-Peer network printing architecture described in the previous 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 and share the printing service on the network.
Step2. Please add/configure the Peer-to-Peer Printing of the Windows NT/2000/2003 network printer and verify that you can print from Windows NT/2000/2003 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 shared printer in Network Neighborhood.
5. NetWare Network 5.1 System Architecture We implement NetWare printer sharing functionality into the print server itself, thus allowing one or more printers attached by a print server to be connected to the network. We have developed the print server to support NetWare print server. Embedded print server, which emulates the “queue management functionality” of NetWare print server, PSERVER program running on the NetWare server.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 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. Select Print Server Information. Press the Insert key to add a new NetWare print server object. The print server name can be identical to the CPxxxxxx name printed on the label of the print server. Press Enter to select the newly created print server. Select Print Server Configuration. Select Printer Configuration.
13. Press Escape, and answer Yes to the Save Changes question. 14. Select Queues Serviced by Printer, 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 service, or press Enter to accept the default. 16. Repeatedly press Escape to exit the PCONSOLE program. 17. Reset the print server to have the changes take effect.
6. UNIX System Network 6.1 Introduction The print server is available for TCP/IP printing by Unix LPD (Line Printer Daemon) protocol. The LPD protocol originated with Unix release is based on the BSD version of Unix and supported under most versions of Unix. This chapter explains how to configure the print server for TCP/IP operation, and how to modify configuration files on your Unix system to allow printing to the print server.
To configure the IP address data for the BOOTP server, you will need to log in the host of BOOTP server as the superuser (root). Perform the following steps to add address entries, 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: 203.66.191.12 pserver 2.
2. Create a spool directory for the printer in the same directory where spool directories are normally kept on the machine, such as /var/spool or /var/spool/lpd: mkdir /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chown daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chgrp daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chmod 775 /var/spool/lpd/pserverd 3. Add an entry to the host’s /etc/printcap file, similar to the following: printer-name:\ :lp=:\ :rm=203.66.191.186:\ :rp=lpt1:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/pserverd.
7. Configuration Utility 7.1 Introduction This chapter introduces print server’s system configuration utility in Windows environment. This utility is automatically installed during Windows Administrator Utility installation procedure - refer to section 3.2 and 3.3. This utility provides the most complete management and configuration functions on the print server side.
Every time when you run print server’s configuration utility, click the “Search” icon on the tool bar. The configuration utility will delay for several seconds 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.
7.4 Setup the Print Server on the tool bar, the setup items of the current selected print server will be Click “Setup” icon 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” of the print server. The default values are as follows.
7.5 AppleTalk Configuration Double Click “AppleTalk” icon and the AppleTalk configuration window will pop-up. 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. 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.
Double Click “General” icon and the General configuration window will pop-up. You can see basic print server information in this page. You also can configure the “Print Server Name”, “SMB Group 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. SMB Group Name: the name of SMB group that this print server belongs to.
7.8 System Configuration Double Click “System” icon and the System configuration window will pop-up. In the System configuration page, you can select to enable/disable each printing or management protocol, upgrade the new firmware for this print server, and enable/disable wireless function. Upgrade Firmware: You can use this “Upgrade Firmware” tool to update the newest firmware of the ” button and select the correct firmware in your PC. After print server.
7.9 TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon and the 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 can enable this DHCP server and let it manages IP for you. Click the “IP” button to enter the IP setting page. If you need the print server to automatically get an IP from DHCP server, select “Auto IP”.
7.10 Wireless Configuration If you want to use the print server through wireless LAN, please set up the print server through Ethernet first and make sure your wireless LAN setting is correct. After setting the wireless LAN, unplug the Ethernet cable and restart the print server, then you can start to use the print server through wireless LAN.
In the Infrastructure mode, you have to let the print server associate with an access point. You let the print server scan for an available access point automatically or manually assign the SSID of the access point you want to use. If you select to let the print server scan for an available access point, the following window will pop up: The list is the scanned available access points. Select an access point in the list and click “Next”.
The list is the scanned active wireless stations. Select a wireless station in the list and click “Next”. If you cannot find the wireless station that you want the print server to communicate with, click “Scan” to let the print server scan again. Both “Infrastructure” and “Ad-Hoc” mode have to go through the following procedure: 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)”.
WEP Security Mode: You can select “64 bit” or “128 bit” length and “Hexadecimal” or “ASCII” format for the encryption key. Longer key length can provide stronger security but worth communication performance. Enter four key values by following the rules below and select one key as the default key. PassPhrase – A passphrase 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)”.
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. TKIP – 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.
Click “Save” to save the wireless configuration. 7.11 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will 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 the print server here. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool.
7.12 Wizard on the tool bar, the setup wizard item of the current selected print server Click “Wizard” icon will be showed on the right side of the window. Double click the “Print Server Setup Wizard” the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup process. Step 1: Set up the name of this print server and the SMB Group Name for the print server. Also set up “Enable”, “Disable” or “Auto” for the wireless function here. Please refer to section 7.6 and 7.8 for detail information.
Step 3: Setup the IP of this print server and the DHCP server. Please refer to section 7.9 for detail information. Step 4: Setup the AppleTalk printing. Please refer to section 7.5 for detail information.
Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 6: Select the Wireless Adapter mode and complete wireless LAN settings. The other procedures are the same with “Wireless” Setting in “Setup” screen. Please refer to section 7.10 for detail information. Step 7: Click “Save” to finish setting.
7.13 Report Click “Report” 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, Firmware Version and Status of print server.
8. Web Management 8.1 Introduction Print server can be configured and managed on the Web. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet, administrator can easily configure 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 Server. The default IP Address, User Name and Password settings of the Print server are as follows: IP Address: 192.168.2.
8.3 Device Status 8.3.1 System System Information includes “Device Name”, “Print Server Name”, “Model Type”, “System Up Time”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Address”, “Wireless LAN Status” and the protocols enabled status, etc. 8.3.2 Printer This page lists information of printers connected to all printer ports.
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. 8.3.4 SMB This page lists the SMB group setting of the print server.
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”. 8.3.6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings, including “Polling Time”, “Use Bindery Mode”, “Name of the File Server” and “Port Attached Queue”.
8.3.7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings, including “AppleTalk Zone Name” and “Printer Type” of printers connected to all print ports. 8.4 Setup Wizard 8.4.1 System You can change the print server name and password of the print server from here: Print 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.
8.4.2 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”. 8.4.3 Wireless If you want to use the print server through wireless LAN, please set up the print server through Ethernet first and make sure your wireless LAN setting is correct.
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 associate with it.
Key Length – You can choose “64-bit” to use WEP with 64-bit key length encryption or choose “128bit” to use WEP with 128-bit key length encryption. The longer key length can provide better security but worse transmission throughput. Key Format – You may select to use ASCII Characters (alphanumeric format) or Hexadecimal digits (in the "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" range) to be the WEP Key.
8.4.3.3 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 associate with or you have to use General Setting to manually setup the wireless parameters.
If you need the print server 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 Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway” for the print server. You can enable/disable or set auto for the print server’s DHCP server. The DHCP server is disabled by default. If the DHCP Server is enabled or set Auto, you have to assign a range of IP addresses here.
The print server supports SNMP configuration. If it is enabled, 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. SNMP System Location: You can enter the installed location of the print server here. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool. 8.4.7 NetWare This print server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method.
8.4.8 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. You have to select to 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”.
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. 8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser You can upgrade new firmware for this print server 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.
9. IPP Printing 9.1 Introduction IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) Printing provides a convenient way of remote printing service by TCP/IP. The print server 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 printing, you can share the printer to all the PC’s that can access the print server by IP. You can even share your printer to Internet users. 9.
Step5. Select “Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network” and enter the URL of print server. The URL 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 default port name is “lpt1”. One example of the URL is http://192.168.3.66:631/lpt1. After entering the URL of print server, click “Next”.
Step6. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and 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. Choose to set the print whether as a default printer or not. Click “Next”. Step8. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.
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10. Windows XP SP2 Setup In Windows XP SP2, XP SP2’s firewall would block the unknown communications. This print server has allowed 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: Step1. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Network Connections”. Step2. Right click “Local Area Connection” and select “Properties”. Step3.
Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”. Step5. Click “Browse” to add a new program.
Step6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\Conceptronic\C54PSERVU\Server Manager\” (where C:\ is the system drive), if you have installed the Server Manager. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\Conceptronic\C54PSERVU\Network Driver\” (where C:\ is the system drive), if you have installed the Network Driver only. Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”. Step8. Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting.
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