USB 2.0 IP Device Server User Manual English ____________________________________________________ LINDY No. 42829 For Home and Office Use Tested to Comply with FCC Standards www.LINDY.com © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (Oct.
English Manual EN 2 Table Of Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Windows utility ................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1. TheVirtual USB-IP Driver Software .......................................................................................... 4 2.2. Device Mapping ...........
EN 3 1. Introduction The USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER Combo solution not only allows you to add storage space onto your home or office network but also allows you to work with the remote USB devices over a local network as if they were connected directly to your local PC. Key Features of the application are • Integrated USB-IP and NAS solution • USB Port 0 and Port 1 are USB NAS ports.
EN 4 2.1. TheVirtual USB-IP Driver Software This contains a Virtual Bus Enumerator driver & Virtual Bus driver. These drivers will help in vitalizing the USB devices, for each attached device on the USB-Server. Virtual Bus driver takes the USB traffic from the USB Client drivers and passes it to the USB-Server, which is sitting remotely on the network. As soon as the utility is installed this application icon will be placed in the system tray as shown in the figure below.
EN 5 2.2. Device Mapping Device Mapping enables virtualization of all USB Devices connected to the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER unit in your LAN on your local PC. Click on the Green Arrow Button in the Admin utility to start the device mapping, which will automatically start the ‘Found New Hardware’ wizard to install the Virtual USB driver. Continue the Add New Hardware wizard to install the Virtual USB driver for the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER Admin utility.
EN 6 Continue the Installation to see the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER board and the USB devices connected in the Admin utility as shown below. In the Device mapping window, all the USB devices are shown as a tree under the USB Server. Right click on any device and click on “Connect” to virtualize that USB device onto your PC as shown below .
EN 7 2.3. Server Manager The Server manager enables the Administrator to configure the USB 2.0 Device Server via the network. The Server Manger also has an option to search for the device on the Network: Right Click on the Server Manager Main window and Click on Search server as shown below .
EN 8 The dialog ‘Searching for Servers’ dialog will appear and list all the USB 2.0 Device Server devices on the Network as shown below . The USB Device Server search is password protected and should be unlocked in order to configure the selected device. On selecting ‘Unlock’ the password dialog pops up as shown below. Key in the password in the ‘Password’ dialog. The default password for the USB IP Server is “combo” If the Authentication has been successful an ‘Unlock OK’ dialog appears.
2.3.1. Server Configuration EN 9 The Server Manager has an option to change Server Configuration settings through USBIP Admin Utility. To open server configuration window right click on the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER server displayed on the Server Manager Main window and select “Server Configuration” option as shown below. The Server Configuration window will appear as shown below.
EN 10 Basic Settings: The Basic Settings page allows you to specify a server name. Check the modify box and enter server name as shown below. IP Settings: The IP Settings page allows you to modify MCS 8140-D box IP Address as shown below. The Default IP Address is 192.168.3.22 To modify the IP Address of the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER box, check the ‘Modify’ box and Select IP Configuration (Select IP configuration Static/DHCP from IP Configuration drop-down box) as shown below.
EN 11 After selecting IP Configuration key in the IP Address of the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER box in the IP Address field followed by proper Subnet Mask & Gate Way as shown below. After entering IP address, Subnet Mask & Gate Way then click on “save” button. Then USBIP Admin shows a progress bar, after the process is finished, the following message box will be displayed. Note: Every unit in the network is identified by its IP address. The utility treats each IP address as unique device.
2.3.2. Firmware Upgrade EN 12 The USB 2.0 Device Server Firmware can be upgraded remotely using the Firmware upgrade option. Select the server on the Server manager. Right Click on the server and Select Upgrade Firmware option to upgrade the firmware. Select the file to be upgraded by click on the Browse option in the “Select File” dialog as shown below. An upgrade.tar.bz2 file is required to upgrade the firmware. The upgrade .tar file can be downloaded from our website www.lindy.com.
2.3.3. Restore factory defaults EN 13 Right click on the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER in the Server Manager Window and select the Restore Factory Defaults function to obtain Default settings as shown below. Then USBIP Admin Utility pops up a window asking for to continue or not. If we select Ok button it will get default settings. 2.4. Printer Auto-Connect: USB Admin Utility enables Printers be shared between multiple clients making it a bidirectional Print Server.
EN 14 Select the Printer which was connected and Click on “Save” and close the Window. Once the Printer is configured for Auto-Connect mode, It remains free as long as the Printer is connected and becomes “Busy” only when a user prints to the printer connected. Multiple User print jobs will be executed on a time sharing basis. 3. Web Server The USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER Combo has a user-friendly web browser interface to configure the box. To open the web interface just type the IP address of the box, i.
EN 15 If the authorization has been successful, the home page of the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER NAS application will be visible as shown below. 3.1. Network Settings The “Network” tab allows you to configure both wired as well as wireless interfaces. For the wired side we can configure the Static IP manually or set the box to automatically obtain an IP address by setting to the Dynamic (DHCP) mode. (Make sure that the DHCP server should be in ON).
EN 16 Select the Server IP Type, and select Static in order to change the IP address, Subnet mask and Default Gateway of the Box. If the choice is made as “Dynamic (DHCP)”, the box will automatically try to get an IP Address from the wireless router available. In the Wireless configuration the application can also list the Wifi access points available in the network in the Wi-Fi Router Name.
3.2.1. Shares setting EN 17 The “Shares” tab is for creating/editing/deleting a share. A share is the partition of the disk that you want others in the network to access. When a disk is connected to the NAS box the partitions and their statistics will be shown in this page. Specify the name in the “Enter a New Share Name” field to create a new share.
EN 18 • • • • • • • Select Partition: Select the partition which you want to access with the given share name. Comment: Comments that you want to give for a share (optional setting) Validusers: Give the users separated with commas who are authorized to access this share. If no user is listed then all will have access to that share. (optional setting) Readonly: Set read/write permissions for the share. Default is “No” which is read/write permission.
EN 19 3.2.3. IPSec Security Settings In the “Security” tab you can configure a VPN with a client for secure access to the box. The box uses IPSec for establishing a VPN. By default the security will be disabled. Then we have the encryption and authentication settings. The USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER NAS will support 3DES, AES128, AES192 and AES256 encryption techniques and MD5, SHA1 authentication techniques.
EN 20 The connection status (Disconnected/Connected) will be displayed at the bottom in red. Please check the Appendix section to know on how to configure IPSec on a Windows XP machine. 3.2.4. The Status page In the “Status” tab you can view the NAS server status, active connections, active shares and opened files in a very informative way. The “Auto Refresh” button when clicked will keep on refreshing the page based upon the given refresh time interval.
3.3. Virtual USB-IP Settings EN 21 The web-server has separate webpage to configure Virtual USB server settings. Click on the Virtual USB tab to view the USB server settings in the Combo NAS USB IP solution. 3.3.1.
The status page displays the current status of the USB devices attached. EN 22 • Device Status: • Vendor Id • Product Id • Class Id • Peer-ip address • Status This status page is updated automatically every 10 seconds and it shows the device connected to USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER board. The Device Status table shows the Vendor Id, Product Id, Class, Peer-IP and the Status of the Device connected. The Peer-IP is the IP Address of the computer on which the device is currently accessed.
EN 23 A file named upgrade.tar.bz2 file is required to upgrade the firmware. If one is availableThe upgrade .tar file can be downloaded from the LINDY website, www.lindy.com.
EN 24 A file successfully uploaded message is displayed and the webpage also indicates that the USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER box is restarting to apply the upgraded firmware settings. 4. Accessing the Network drive Ensure the PC IP Address and Box IP Address is in the same subnet. The network drive will be available on “My Network places” of Windows operating system. Goto My Network places> Entire Network>Workgroup>mcs8140 as shown below to access the network drive on USB 2.0 DEVICE SERVER.
EN 25 OR Type the box name in the Run dialog as follows: \\mcs8140
Radio Frequency Energy, Certifications FCC Warning This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: 1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. CE Statement, EMC Compatibilty This device complies with EN Standards EN55022 and EN55024 according to the relevant EC EMC Directive.
