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USB Server User Manual Table of Content Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Features ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Installation....................................................................................................................................... 5 Running Program .....
USB Server User Manual Introduction The revolutionary USB Server utilizes technologies that streamlines and enhances functionalities between USB devices and multiple PCs. Current solutions from other companies provide minimum functionalities at high costs. They use significant amounts of resources and effort to achieve the required features, whereas the USB Server utilizes significantly less resources for more features. Most solutions allow printer-only peripheral devices.
USB Server User Manual Installation To install the USB Server program, please double click the USB Server setup file. Then please follow the instructions of the wizard to complete the installation process. Please reboot the system as requested by the installer when the process ends, otherwise the software might not work properly. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Running Program To start the USB Server program, please double click the shortcut icon of the USB Server on the Desktop. This would bring up the main dialog box. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual System Firewall When you start the program for the time, your Windows OS will prompt you for Firewall Access. Please make sure you unblock the software or grant it access, otherwise the program will not work correctly. Windows XP Firewall Access Alert Please make sure you “Unblock” the program. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Windows Vista Firewall Alert If your system is running Windows Vista, please make sure you “Unblock” the program. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Windows 7 Firewall Alert If your system is running Windows 7, please make sure you check both of the network options and then click on “Allow access” when you see this alert. Once you have done this once, the system will remember your setting and will not prompt you again next time you run the software. WARNING: Failing to provide USB Server software with access through system firewall will cause malfunction in the program. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Main Dialog Box Once you have start up the program and grant it access through the firewall, you will see this main dialog box.
USB Server User Manual Status of USB Servers and Devices The tree view also tells you the status of all the USB Servers and devices that are discovered on the network. An inaccessible USB Servers might or might now show up on the list. It is either disconnected from the network, powered off or suffering from other technical difficulties. The device might be in one of the following states and there are different things you can do with it in each of the states. Each status is represented by a specific icon.
USB Server User Manual Occupied by Yourself When the device has been occupied, the icon and Status change to indicate so. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Occupied By Other User This status icon indicates the device is occupied by another user on your network and you can not connect to that device at the moment. Device on Different Segment This icon with question mark indicates that the server’s IP address is on a different network segment from your PC. You can NOT connect to a device attached to such server. Please check your network settings. However you can still change its network settings.
USB Server User Manual Accessing a Device To connect to a USB device, please select it on the tree view and click on Connect Device button or double-click on it. This process might take a few seconds up to a minute, depending on the complexity of the device. Then you can operate a connected USB device as if it is connected to your PC’s USB port directly. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual If you select a connected device on the UI, you can see that the Connect Device button is changed to Disconnect Device: Clicking on this button releases the selected device for other users. Once you see the icon turns back, the device has been disconnected and other users will then be able to connect to it. This operation is exactly like when you unplug a USB device from your PC’s USB port. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Server Configuration We allow the users to configure the settings of the USB Servers via the web-based UI. Select the target server on the tree view and then click on the Open Web Page button or the same option on the right-click menu of server icon, to bring up the web-based configuration UI. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Configuration with Web-based UI Your default web browser will pop up and take you into the web-based UI of the server. This is the main page. You can see the important information about the USB Server and the device(s) connected to it. The 4 links at the left-hand side take you to different pages with other information about this server or functions you could perform. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Network Information This page displays the current network setting of the server, like the current IP setting and the MAC address. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Server Reset Clicking on this link takes you the page shown below: Click on the Submit button with the correct password provided will reboot this USB Server. If no password has been set, then simply click on Submit button to perform this function. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Change Password Clicking on this link takes you to the password update page below: To change the password, you must enter current password, enter new password and enter it again for confirmation, and then click on Submit to set the new Password. If you are setting the password for the first time, you don’t have to provide current password. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Configuration with the Utility Another way to configure the server is via the configuration dialog of USB Server. To bring up the configuration dialog, please RIGHT-CLICK on the server icon to bring up this menu, and select Server Configurations REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual You might be prompted to enter password if a password has been set. If not, you will immediately see the above dialog. Sever Name: This field allows you change the Server name. Change it whatever you want. USE DHCP: When this field is checked, your server acquires IP address automatically. Uncheck it and you can enter IP address automatically. NOTE: You can apply this function to a server under different network segment.
USB Server User Manual Connect Automatically By Port: This is a new function that, when enabled, any USB device plugged into the enabled port will be connected automatically. Please see Featured Functions chapter for a detailed description of this function. Backup Firmware: this function is a fail-save mechanism for the Update Firmware function. Just browse to where you want to save the backup file and click on Save to save the file. Update Firmware: update firmware with this function.
USB Server User Manual Featured Functions Connect Automatically for Printing This is another one of our very convenient functions. What this function does it that when you send a printing task to this printer, it detects this printing task and AUTOMATICALLY connect this printer to print out the document. When the printing task is done, the printer will then be AUTOMATICALLY disconnected so that other users can use it. The user no longer has to manually connect and disconnect the printer.
USB Server User Manual Automatic Connection There two ways to automatically connects USB devices: automatic connection by device and automatic connection by USB port. Automatic Connection by Device Once enabled, THIS PARTICULAR DEVICE will be automatically connected when: 1. The software starts up and the device is online and Free. 2. The software is running and the device comes online. 3. The software is running and the device status changes to Free from any other type of status.
USB Server User Manual Automatic Connection by USB Port When this function is enabled for the port, the USB devices will be automatically connected when: 1. The device is plugged into the port when the software is running. 2. The device is plugged into the port and is Free when the software starts up. 3. The device is plugged into the port and the status changes to Free from any other status when the software is running.
USB Server User Manual Create a Shortcut on Your Desktop This function creates a shortcut on your Desktop that, when double clicked, starts up an application and connects a targeted device at the same time. This function is particularly useful when the functions or one of the functions of the targeted device must work with a specific application, such as a multi-function printer and the photo/picture scanning utility.
USB Server User Manual Take this EPSON MFP as an example. Right click on it and select the “Create a Shortcut on Your Desktop” option. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Then you will see this setup dialog pops up. So, this EPSON MFP comes with a scanning application called EPSON Scan. You can see a shortcut of this EPSON Scan software being placed on your Desktop. Now you can either Drag-and-Drop the EPSON Scan shortcut into the highlighted text filed. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Or you can use the browse button to select the shortcut. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Either way, observe that the program path has been correctly captured and then click on the OK button. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Then you will see a new shortcut being created on the Desktop. The naming rule of the new shortcut is adding a “Network” prefix to the name of the original shortcut. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Now, when you double click the new “Network EPSON Scan” shortcut, the software runs and the EPSON MFP gets connected at the same time. You can then start your scanning task. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual When you are finished, simply close the EPSON Scan utility and the EPSON MFP will be disconnected automatically. Now you can operate your MFP or Scanner with a shortcut on your Desktop and keep the USB Server software minimized at the system tray. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Auto Disconnect Printer/MFP/Storage Device These functions are there to prevent the case when one user connected a Printer or Storage device but forget to disconnect when he/she is done with the device. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual When these two functions are enabled, you will see this message when you connect a Storage device or a printer: REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual When the Idle time is up and the device has been disconnected, you get another notification: NOTE: This function might not work with Storage device such as pen driver/flash driver. These devices tend to periodically (on a millisecond base) communicate with the OS even when the user is not reading data from it or writing data to it. So it never actually stays “Idle” and will never be automatically disconnected by this function.
USB Server User Manual Device Property Clicking on the Device Property to bring up the Device Property dialog box. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Device Property dialog box displays information of the USB device. If the device is occupied, it also displays the occupying PC name and the IP of the PC occupying it. This dialog box provides a quite useful function. Check the Launch a program when this device connects checkbox and provide the path to that program/utility/application software, then the program/utility/application software would automatically starts up after you connect the device.
USB Server User Manual File The Quit function exits the program. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Options Language You can change the utility’s language with this option. The default language would be the same as your system’s language. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Server Settings Setting Server: Same function as the Setting Server option on the server icon’s right click menu. Run USB Server When PC Starts Up: This utility automatically runs when your system starts up. Open Web Page: Brings up the server’s configuration web pages. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Device Settings Connect Device and Disconnect Device: Connects and disconnects the selected device. Request Disconnect Device: When you want to use a device occupied by other user, you can highlight that device and use this function. This sends a message to the occupying user with your request. The occupying user would either release the device or deny the request if s/he is still using the device.
USB Server User Manual Search When you are in need of knowing the status of all the servers and devices immediately, use the Search button. Clicking on the Search button triggers the program to immediately poll the network for the status of all the servers and devices. The result will be updated to the tree view. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual View The tree view in the main dialog has two display modes: “Servers and Devices” mode and “Devices Only” mode. The default setting is “Devices Only” mode. You can toggle between these two display modes with the View option on the control menu: Servers and Devices view Device Only View REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Help About About option brings up a dialog box with legal and other relative information displayed: REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Log Enabling Log function allows the USB Server software to generate a log file that records data which might help software developers debug a problem. So if you want to report a bug, enable this function and repeat the steps to reproduce the bug. Once you have seen the bug happen again, you can use the Extract log file function to extract the file and send the file in for analysis. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual Extract Log File Clicking on this option brings up the folder where the log file is kept. REV: 1.
USB Server User Manual FAQs General Questions Q. How come I don’t see any device on the utility? Besides the obvious reason that your PC or the USB Server might not be connected to the network correctly and or the product is not powered-on, using a personal firewall on your PC might block the program from accessing the network. Please make sure your personal firewall/anti-virus software is not blocking USB Server application.
USB Server User Manual Q. I connected to the device but it doesn’t work? There are a few things you can check when you run into this problem. 1. Some USB devices requires device driver to work properly. You should check and see if the device driver is correctly installed. To do so, simply connect the USB device to your PC directly via a USB cable and see if the USB device works. If it does not work, then it wouldn’t work when connected via USB server either. 2.
USB Server User Manual Supported USB Devices Q. What USB devices does this product support? Please contact your vendor for a supported device list if the product package does not contain one already. Please note that the supported devices are not limited to those that are on this list. The devices on the list are those that has been tested and verified to work. Devices that are not on this list MAY or MAY NOT be supported by this product. Q.
USB Server User Manual transmitting data at 480 Mbps during operation. The bandwidth provided by this USB Server product is at most 320 Mbps. Though in reality a single webcam may not require 480 Mbps bandwidth, the required bandwidth of two or more web cam definitely exceeds the 320 Mbps this product could provide. Hence only 1 USB web cam is supported on each USB server. Q. Does this product support USB Speaker/Mic.? Yes it does.
