Print Server User’s Manual Version: 1.
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Contents 1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................1 1.1 Product Introduction......................................................... 2 1.2 Product Package ............................................................. 3 1.3 Network Printing Architecture .......................................... 4 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 Print Server Network Functions..................................................... 5 Network Printing Functions for Clients.........................
6.1 Introduction .................................................................... 54 6.2 Enable Print Server’s TCP/IP Support ........................... 55 6.3 Setup Print Server’s IP Address .................................... 56 6.3.1 6.3.2 6.3.3 6.3.4 7. ARP & Ping Assignment ............................................................. 56 DHCP........................................................................................... 57 BOOTP .................................................
8.6 Changing Device Configuration ..................................... 96 8.7 Setting IP Address ......................................................... 98 8.8 Configuring DHCP Parameters...................................... 99 8.9 Configuring E-Mail Printing .......................................... 101 8.10 Configuring SMB.......................................................... 103 8.11 Configuring AppleTalk ................................................. 104 8.
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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 a network port (10/100Mbps Ethernet) and three printer ports. This print server supports IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, TCP/IP and AppleTalk protocols.
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1.3 Network Printing Architecture This section illustrates how print server functions and operates on the network. Before you install and use print server, it is strongly recommended that you read this section completely, and select only 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-printing environment.
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.
Common operating systems for clients are classified as following: Windows 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Our print server system provides PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 users. PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) supports TCP/IP protocol.
PTPP P1 Windows 98 Print Server MIS-2 P1 P2 P3 Print Server 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-standard AppleTalk network to print through print server.
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.
1.4 Network Printing Environment Common following: network environment are classified as Windows Peer-to-Peer Network The client’s PTPP driver 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 this printing function into Windows NT/2000/2003 Server allows print queue, user authority management, and many other advanced features to be used.
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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 3, 4, 5, and 6 introduces: Chapter 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network Chapter 4. Windows NT/2000 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.
Chapter 11 introduces how to setup LPR printing in MAC OS. Chapter 12 In Windows XP SP2, you may not find any print server listed on the “Available Ports” in “Network Ports Quick Setup”. Please follow the instruction in this chapter and resolve the problem.
1.6 Firmware & Printing Function The print server provides a complete network printing solution.
2. Hardware Installation 1. Unpack the print server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. 2. Connect the print server to the printer you want to share on the network by standard Parallel cable. 3. Connect the print server to your network by attached the network cable to the UTP port of the print server. 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.
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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). System administrators must: Install administrator’s computer.
2. Client Installation and Configuration (refer to section 3 for more detailed information). Client users must install Windows PTPP driver (Peerto-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 Administrator Installation and Setup The Administrator Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98SE/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. 1. 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.
3.The “Print Server displayed. Click “Next”. Utilities” window will be 4.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.
5.Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue.
6.The system automatically. will start to install the utilities 7.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 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 “PS”. Please check the MAC ID on the print server. NOTE 2: The list can only display the devices from the same manufacturer.
8.Specify a recognizable name for the Print Server and click “Next”. 9.Specify the IP Address for the Print Server manually or click “Next” to keep default IP Address, i.e. 10.0.0.
10.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.
11.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 administrator’s PC. and drivers to the 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 – configure the print server’s IP protocols and other advanced refer to Chapter 7 for the detail configuration. Allows you to Address, network functions.
3.4 Client Installation and Setup The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98SE/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. 1. 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. 2.
3.The “Print Server displayed. Click “Next”. Utilities” window will be 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 utilities.
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6.Now, the installation procedure is completed, you are ready to set up the client’s computer. All network 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 “Continue” to finish the installation. Please refer to Section 3.5.1 to add network ports of print servers manually.
7.The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”. After the installation, following tasks: you have completed the 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. Network Ports Quick 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 Quick Setup Network Ports Quick Setup Utility offers a very simple method to add or remove print server’s printer port from the client’s computer.
During the client’s installation procedure, the system will automatically search for all print servers on the network, and add them into the printer ports of the client’s computer (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 printer port into client’s computer conveniently.
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. Select the network ports in the “Available Ports” list and click “>” to add ports. If you want to add all available ports, please click “>>”.
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. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Printers and Faxes”. Step2. Click “Add a Printer”. Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”.
Step4. Step5. 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”. 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. After installation, the printer model will be added to the list. 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”.
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4.1 System Architecture In Windows network environment, other than the Peerto-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. Other network users can simply connect to the server and access the shared printer (see below).
4.2 Windows NT/2000/2003 Server Installation and Setup Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer-to-peer connection (PTPP) between Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Print Server. Step1. If this is your first time installing print server, please install the administrator software on Windows NT/2000/2003 server first. Refer to section 3.2 for installation instructions.
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. You only need to perform Window’s standard Add New Printer procedure, select “Network Printer” shown in the screen below, and complete the configurations afterwards to access the shared printer.
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5.1 System Architecture We implemented 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.
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 server before servicing the print jobs. Each print server will occupy a user account with which it can log into the NetWare server.
5.2 NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x Installation & Setup Once your print server is connected to your Ethernet network, you can set it up for use with your networking software. 5.2.1 Installation Using PCONSOLE 5.2.1.1 Configuring 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 menu selection. 4. Press the Insert key to add a new print queue. 5.
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 server name can be identical 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.
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. NOTE: If the print server 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 print server using a CAPTURE command such as the one shown in the previous section.
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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. The configuration examples in this manual follow the syntax for BSD based Unix systems.
6.2 Enable 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 configuration program.
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 various Unix systems using any one of the following methods: 1. ARP & Ping Assignment (Recommend for Unix) 2. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) 3. BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) 4.
(the Node ID is printed on the rear side of the print server) Assign IP address: 203.66.191.12 arp –s 203.66.191.12 00-00-B4-01-01-01 ping 203.66.191.12 At the mean time, print server’s IP will “temporarily” be set to 203.66.191.12 (will restore after reboot). Therefore, you need to run your web browser to set a permanent IP address (refer to section 8.3.7 for detailed IP configuration). 6.3.
To rebuild the NIS map, please refer to your system documentation. 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.
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=1:\ :ha=0000B4010101:\ :ip=203.66.191.12: 6.3.4 RARP The procedure below enables the RARP daemon running on your system to respond to a RARP request from the print server and to assign the IP address to the print server. 1. Log in the host of RARP server as the superuser (root). 2.
Where the Ethernet address of the print server is the Node ID located on the print server. 4. If your system uses Network Information Services (NIS), you will need to make changes to the NIS host and ethers databases. 5. Check if the RARP daemon is running using the ps and grep commands. If the RARP daemon is not running on your host, type “rarpd -a” to run the RARP server.
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6.5 Configure Remote lpd Printing on the Host The procedure you use to configure your Unix host(s) to allow printing to your network remote print server varies between different varieties of Unix. The procedure below can be used for Unix variants that are related to BSD Unix, such as SunOS or Linux. For other versions of Unix, consult your system documentation, keeping in mind that: 1. The print server should be treated as a BSD networked print server host. 2.
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.log:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pserverd:\ :mx#0: Lines should be indented with tabs. More than one printer name can be used, with variants separated by vertical bars (name1|name2).
The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host.
6.6 Print a Test Page To print to the print server, you can use the lpr command: lpr -Pprinter-name file ... or, you can use the lp command on SCO Open Server: lp –d printer-name file ... Where printer-name is one of the names for the printer in the /etc/printcap file, which you created in the previous step. Consult your system documentation for more information about printer configuration and administration and about lpr and other printing commands.
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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.
SNMP Configuration: Configuration. SNMP Information SMB: Configure the SMB Group Name. System Configuration: Print Server Ability Setting and Firmware Upgrade. Network E-Mail Printing: E-Mail Printing configuration. Please refer to Chapter 9. Setup Wizard: Settings. Guide You Through All the Report: List the Status of All Available Print Servers on the Network. We will explain each function separately in the following section.
7.2 Search for All Available Print Server Every time when you run print server’s configuration on the tool bar. The utility, click the “Search” icon 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.
7.3 Status of Print Server Click “Status” icon on the tool bar, the status of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window. The information 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, subnet mask, default gateway, AppleTalk printer type, AppleTalk zone and print server printing ability…etc.
You can restart the print server by pressing the “Reboot” button .
7.4 Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon on the tool bar, the setup items of the 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” of the print server. The default values are as follows.
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7.5 General Configuration Double Click “General” icon configuration window will pop-up. and the General 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. 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.
7.6 TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon configuration window will pop-up. and the TCP/IP 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”. You also can select “Static IP” to manually assign “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway” for the print server. Click the “DHCP Server” 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.
7.7 Netware Print Server Configuration Double Click “NetWare” icon configuration window will pop-up. and the 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.
7.8 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.
7.9 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon configuration window will pop up. and the SNMP 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.
7.10 SMB Configuration SMB Group Name, the name of SMB group that this print server belongs to. All PC should join the same 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 time to bypass the current printing job. Or the printing document will not be printed completely or with unformatted messages. The range is from 1 to 120 seconds.
7.11 System Configuration Double Click “System” icon configuration window will pop-up. and the System In the System configuration page, you can select to enable/disable each printing or management protocol, assign name for each printer port of this print server, and upgrade the new firmware for this 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 correct firmware in your PC.
Note that before you upgrade the firmware please make sure that the IP Address settings of the MFP Server are in the same network as your computer.
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. 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. Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.11 for detail information.
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.
Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 5: Click “Save” to finish setting.
7.13 Report Click “Report” icon window will pop up. on the tool bar, the Report The report lists basic information of all available print servers on the network. The information includes Device Name, MAC ID, Model Type and Firmware Version of print server.
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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 is 10.0.0.1.
The browser will group the configuration items into the following topics, Print Server Info: General Information of print server. Printer Status: Current status of the attached printers. NetWare Status: information of NetWare. Print Server connection DHCP Status: Current IP Address and DHCP server status and information. Device Cfg: Device configuration. IP Cfg: IP configuration. DHCP Cfg: DHCP parameter configuration. Mail Print Cfg: Email printing configuration. SMB: SMB group configuration.
In order to protect your print server, you can get all information pages at any time you like, but you can not save the configuration pages before password verification. You will be asked to check username and password when you want to save a configuration page and you have not been verified yet. Please ignore the username and enter password at that moment and reload the configuration pages again. The configuration pages will now be displayed in the browser window.
8.2 Getting Print Server Information Each time you run browser to connect to a print server, you will get this print server information page initially. The print server information page displays some general information of print server.
8.3 Getting Printer Status The Printer status page can be used to display the status of attached printer(s) for each port.
8.4 Getting NetWare Information The NetWare status page displays connection information of the print server.
8.5 Getting DHCP Status The DHCP status page can be used to display the print server’s IP address and the DHCP Server information.
8.6 Changing Device Configuration The Device Cfg page allows you to set: Alias name, an alternate name by which the print server can be called (in addition to the PSxxxxxx name printed on the label). NetWare Protocol Support, which determines whether or not the print server support NetWare printing function. NetBEUI Protocol Support, which determines whether or not the print server support NetBEUI network protocol.
POST diagnostic printout, which determines whether or not a diagnostic printout should be printed to the attached printer. Save to Print Server configuration to the print server. button: save the Type new password, change to new password. Re-type new password, confirm the new password. Change password button: save the new password to the print server. The print server will verify your password (it will ignore the User Name item) when you save the configuration.
8.7 Setting IP Address The IP Cfg page allows you to configure the IP address where the print server is to be located. The print server will obtain its IP address automatically by the protocol DHCP, BOOTP, RARP if you configure the IP address as Automatic. Click Save to print server button to save the configuration to the print server. The print server will verify your password (it will ignore the User Name item) when you save the configuration. Make sure to reset the print server (described in section 8.
8.8 Configuring DHCP Parameters The print server can be configured as DHCP server to provide dynamic IP addresses assignment. The DHCP Cfg page allows you to set. The DHCP server startup, which determine if the print server will act as DHCP server. If this item is set to Auto, the print server will detect if there is any other DHCP server on the network when it boots up.
TCP/IP parameters automatically; configure the following parameters: otherwise you will Starting IP: specifies the starting IP address for assigning to DHCP clients. IP range: specifies how many IP addresses are available to DHCP clients. Net mask: gives the network mask. Gateway IP: gives the IP address of the default gateway. DNS server: gives the IP address of the domain name server. Save to Print Server configuration to the print server.
8.9 Configuring E-Mail Printing Using print server’s email printing function, the client user on the Internet can email the printing file to a dedicate mailbox, print server will automatically get the email from that mailbox and print it to the attached printer. The detail function description is described in the Email Printing Chapter. The page allows you to set: Mail Polling Time, default value is one minute. It means the system polling time for getting the email from mail server.
Mail Account, the account of the mailbox in the mail server. Mail Password, the password of the mail account. Print Mail Header, which determines whether or not the printing job will print out the mail header.
8.10 Configuring SMB All PC should join the same group before they can use this print server by SMB protocol. SMB Group Name, the name of SMB group that this print server belongs to. Save to Print Server, save the configuration to the print server. Make sure to reset the print server (described in section 8.13) to have the changes take effect.
8.11 Configuring 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 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.
8.12 Configuring SNMP Parameters The SNMP Cfg page allows you to configure the SNMP parameters of this print server. These information can be browsed by the SNMP MIB browser. The page allows you to set: System Contact, the information of this print server. system Administrator System Location, the System location of this print server.
8.13 System Utilities You can perform several tasks from this Utilities page, as described below: The Software reset: which determines whether or not to reset the print server. The Restore to factory default: which determines whether or not to erase all of the print server’s setting and restore to the default configuration the print server had when it was shipped from the factory.
to make sure it is operating properly, or to isolate any installation problems. The Do it button: do the action specified in the above.
8.14 Firmware Upgrading The page allows you to upgrade firmware of the print server. Click “Do it” button and enter the password, the system will guide you to finish the firmware upgrading. Be aware that if you have started upgrading firmware, you have to follow all the upgrading steps or the print server can’t turn back to normal configuration.
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9.1 Introduction Email Printing provides a new way of printing service. After installation, Windows will establish a new Printer Driver which will convert the printing document to an Email and send to the mail account assigned by print server. Print server will periodically retrieve Emails in the mail account and print it to the attached printer directly. Note the E-Mail printing function can only use in Windows 98.
9.2 System Requirement 9.2.1 Print Server Side Print server must be connected to an Email server that provides an Email account for the print server. At the meantime, the Email server has to permanently connect to the Internet for receiving user's email printing documents. 9.2.2 Client Side Client side can be any operating systems with a mailing tool. Client Side must be able to connect to an SMTP Email server for sending email. Client Side must install protocol for Internet connection.
9.3 System Setup 9.3.1 Print Server Side Step1. Execute Print Server Configuration Utility. Step2. Enter into Setup and double click Mail Printing. Step3. Configure Mail polling time and MailBox parameters. Mail Polling Time : Default is 1 minute; Intervals for print server to check Emails in the MailBox. Mail Server, Mail Account and Password are MailBox's Email server's IP address, account, and password respectively. Print Mail Header : If you want to print with mail header, select this setting.
9.3.2 Client User Side At first, please confirm that the client computer has installed and setup the TCP/IP protocol correctly. Email Printing provide three printing methods, the instructions and installation are described below: 9.3.2.1 Print directly from applications by using the “Print to Email printing driver” At first, the client user needs to install and setup the “Print to Email Printing Driver” from the CD-ROM shipped with the print server package.
3. Click “Next” and choose a installation path or use the default, 4.
5. Click “Next” and the system will install the “Email Printing Driver”. After the installation is completed, you need to configure the Printing Driver of Email Printing as following, 6. Click the “AddPort” Button, and you can see the following dialog box, 7.
Port Name: The Printer Port Name for Email Printing. It will be used when you execute the “Add Printer” E-Mail Address: The email address serviced by the print server. Outgoing Mail Server: The mail server of your client computer for sending the email. Your E-mail address: The information which will be printed at the header of the printing document. 8. Click OK and complete the “Email printing driver” installation procedure.
9.3.2.3 Send an Email with an attached document to the email account serviced by the Print Server For a client user who wants to print a document to the printer attached the Print Server but without the “Email Printing Driver”, he (or she) can first print the document to a file and send this document file as an email attachment to the email account serviced by the Print Server. The detailed procedures are described as below: Run the application, open the document and select the “Print” function.
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10.1 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.
10.2 10.2.1 System Setup Print Server Side It is needless to do any setting on the print server side. Make sure the print server has correct IP settings. If you want to 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. 10.2.2 Client Side You only need to perform Window’s standard Add New Printer procedure. Step1.
Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. Step4. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer”. Click “Next”.
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”.
11. LPR Setting in MAC OS LPR Printing (Line Printer Remote technology) allows Macintosh computers to connect to printers via TCP/IP. LPR Printing can be set up on any Macintosh with version 9.x above. To enable LPR Printing in Macintosh, please follow the procedures below. Step1. In the Desktop, click “System Preferences”. Step2. Click “Print & Fax”.
Step3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”. Step4. Click “Add” to add the new Print Server through TCP/IP.
Step5. Enter the “Printer Type”, “Printer Address” and “Queue Name” and select the “Printer Model” to setup the Print Server. Click “Add” to continue. Printer Type: LPD/LPR Printer Address: Input the IP Address of the Print Server Queue Name: The queue name of the Print Server is “lpt1” Printer Model: Select the Printer Model that is attached to the Print Server.
Step6. The Print Server is installed completely. You can see it in the “Printer List”. Step7. You can print a file to check whether the Print Server is installed successfully.
12. 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. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.
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\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive).
Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”.
Step8. Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting. The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program.
