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- Page 1 LevelOne FPS-9021/FPS-9022 Mini Printer Server w/Parallel (USB2.0) Port User Manual V1.0.0-0601...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..............1 Product Introduction............2 Product Package............. 3 Network Printing Architecture ......... 4 1.3.1 Printer server Network Functions ..........4 1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients........5 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server......7 Network Printing Environment ........8 Contents of the User Manual ........ - Page 3 UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK ..........52 Introduction ..............53 Enable Printer server’s TCP/IP Support ....... 54 Setup Printer server’s IP Address......... 55 6.3.1 DHCP..................55 6.3.2 BOOTP ..................55 Verify Printer server’s IP Address ......... 57 Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host ....58 CONFIGURATION UTILITY ..........60 Introduction ..............
- Page 4 8.3.6 NetWare ..................90 8.3.7 AppleTalk ................... 91 Setup Wizard ..............92 8.4.1 System..................92 8.4.2 TCP/IP ..................94 8.4.3 SMB .................... 95 8.4.4 SNMP..................96 8.4.5 NetWare ..................97 8.4.6 AppleTalk ................... 98 8.4.7 Save Settings................99 System Tools .............. 100 8.5.1 Load Default ................
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Page 5: Introduction
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Page 6: Product Introduction
Product Introduction Thank you for purchasing and using our printer server. This printer 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. -
Page 7: Product Package
Product Package This package contains the following components: Printer server Power Adapter Quick Installation Guide CD-ROM (Including all the software utilities, drivers and User Manual) -
Page 8: Network Printing Architecture
Network Printing Architecture This section illustrates how printer server functions and operates on the network. Before you install and use printer 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”... -
Page 9: Network Printing Functions For Clients
1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients Client User Unix Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation Common operating systems for clients are classified as following: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/ Our printer server system provides PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP users. - Page 10 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 printer servers on the network, and then add their printing ports into Windows’ printing port (see below).
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Page 11: Network Printing Functions For Network Server
1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server Network Server Unix Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation Common network servers are classified as following: Windows 2000 Our printer server system provides PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows 2000. -
Page 12: Network Printing Environment
Network Printing Environment Common network environment are classified as following: Windows Peer-to-Peer Network The client’s PTPP driver will use TCP/IP protocol to print through printer server. Windows 2000 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows 2000 Adding this printing function into Windows 2000 allows print queue, user authority management, and many other advanced features to be used. - Page 13 NetWare Network (see below)
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Page 14: Contents Of The User Manual
Contents of the User Manual Chapter 2 explains printer 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 2000 Based Network Chapter 5. NetWare Network Chapter 6. -
Page 15: Printing Function
Printing Function The printer server provides a complete network printing solution. The feature set is listed below: PTPP (Peer-to-Peer-Printing) TCP/IP (LPR) IPP Printing NetWare Bindery Printing AppleTalk SMB Printing... -
Page 16: Hardware Installation
H a r d w a r e I n s t a l l a t i o n Unpack the printer server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. Connect the printer server to the printer you want to share on the network. Connect the printer server to your network by attached the network cable to the UTP port of the printer server. - Page 17 Reset (Press the reset button with a pencil tip for less than 2 seconds) When the Printer Server is rebooting, the Status/Ready will be ON and then OFF for one time. When the Status is OFF and the Ready is ON, the Print Server is ready to use. Reset to Factory Default (Press the reset button with a pencil tip for longer than 5 seconds) When the Printer Server is reset to default, the Status/Ready will be OFF in the beginning and then ON and OFF for one time.
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Page 18: Windows Peer-To-Peer Network
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Page 19: System Architecture
System Architecture Printer 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. -
Page 20: Administrator Installation And Setup
Insert the CD shipped along with the printer 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. The “Installation Manager” will be displayed on the screen as following. Select “FPS-9021/9022” Click “Administrator Utility”... - Page 21 The “Utilities Setup” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 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.
- Page 22 Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue. Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”.
- Page 23 The system will start to install the utilities automatically. You have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Printer server. The “Choose Printer server” will list all Printer servers within the network. Select the Printer server you would like to configure and click “Next”. * If there is no printer server found, please check the printer server has been installed to the network properly.
- Page 24 NOTE: If this is the first time you configure the Printer server, the “Printer server Name” is the last 6-digit of MAC ID with prefix “PS”. Please check the MAC ID on the printer server. NOTE: The list can only display the devices from the same manufacturer. Specify a recognizable name for the Printer server and click “Next”.
- Page 25 The configuration summary is displayed in the window. Now, you have completed the “Printer server Setup”. Click “Finish” and your system will add network port of the Printer server to your PC automatically. The Administrator Installation procedure is totally completed. Click “Finish”.
- Page 26 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 printer server (including the printer server name and network protocol) Add the network port of the printer server to the administrator’s PC. If you want to print from this administrator’s PC to the printer server, all you need to do is to perform Windows’...
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Page 27: Administrator Utilities
Administrator Utilities After Administrator Installation is completed, there will be four utilities in printer server’s Program folder. Network Ports Quick Setup – Add the network ports of printer servers within the network to your Printer server Configuration – Allows you to configure the printer server’s IP Address, network protocols and other advanced functions. -
Page 28: Client Installation And Setup
Insert the CD shipped along with the printer 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. The "Installation Manager" will be displayed on the screen as follows. Select “FPS-9021/9022”. Click “Client Utility”... - Page 29 The “Utilities Setup” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 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.
- Page 30 Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”. The system will start to install the utilities automatically.
- Page 31 Now, the installation procedure is completed, you are ready to set up the client’s computer. All network ports of the Printer servers detected on the network will be added to your PC automatically, click “Continue”. Note: If there are no printer servers detected in the network currently, please click “Continue” to finish the installation.
- Page 32 After the installation, you have completed the following tasks: Install all utilities and drivers to the client’s PC. Add all the printer 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.
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Page 33: Client Utilities
Client Utilities After Client Installation is completed, there will be three tools in printer 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. - Page 34 If you have just installed another new printer server in the network, you must run this program first. This program will search for new printer 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 printer server.
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Page 35: Remote Ports (Utility)
Please be aware that Network Ports Quick Setup Utility can only detect and configure all printer servers on the same network, it cannot search and configure printer servers on other subnets across network segments. You must use Remote Ports Utility described in the next section to manage remote (across network segments) printer servers. - Page 36 Step2. Enter printer 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.
- Page 37 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.
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Page 38: Windows Add Printer Procedure
Windows add Printer Procedure After adding a “Network Port” of the printer 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. - Page 39 Step5. Choose the suitable “Printer 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.
- Page 40 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”.
- Page 41 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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Page 42: Windows 2000 Servernetwork
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Page 44: System Architecture
4.1.1 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 2000 Server. Only one Windows 2000 Server is required to have Windows PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver installed and share the printing service on the network. -
Page 45: Windows 2000 Server Installation And Setup
Windows 2000 Server Installation and Setup Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer-to-peer connection (PTPP) between Windows 2000 server and Printer server. Step1. If this is your first time installing printer server, please install the administrator software on Windows 2000 server first. -
Page 46: User Installation And Setup
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. - Page 47 2. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer” and click “Next”. 3. Select “Connect to this printer (or to browse for a printer, select this option and click Next):” and click “Next”.
- Page 48 4. Search the printer you want to share from the “Shared printers” and click “Next”. 5. The following message is informed you that you will start installing the drivers for the network printer. Click “Yes” to continue. 6. The following message is popped up to let you know that your computer doesn’t have the drivers for the network printer, please click “Ok”...
- Page 49 7. Insert the CD attached with the network printer and designate the file path to the CD. Click “Ok” to start the installation. 8. Select to let the network printer be your default printer or not. Click “Next” to continue.
- Page 50 9. The network printer is installed completely. Click “Finish”.
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Page 51: Netware Network
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Page 52: System Architecture
System Architecture We implement NetWare printer sharing functionality into the printer server itself, thus allowing one or more printers attached by a printer server to be connected to the network. We have developed the printer server to support NetWare printer server. Embedded printer server, which emulates the “queue management functionality”... -
Page 53: Netware 3.X/4.X/5.X Installation & Setup
NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x Installation & Setup Once your printer 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 Printer server Mode Run the NetWare PCONSOLE program. 2. - Page 54 Press Enter to select the newly created printer server. 10. Select Printer server Configuration. 11. Select Printer Configuration. 12. Select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2), and press Enter, then select LPT1 (or LPT2, LPT3) in the Type field. If your printer server is with only one port, you do not need to configure this Type field.
- Page 55 16. Repeatedly press Escape to exit the PCONSOLE program. 17. Reset the printer server to have the changes take effect. NOTE: If the printer server you have is with multiple printer connectors, you may create multiple print queues and printer objects. Your printer server should now be ready to use.
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Page 56: Unix System Network
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Page 57: Introduction
Introduction The printer 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 printer server for TCP/IP operation, and how to modify configuration files on your Unix system to allow printing to the printer server. -
Page 58: Enable Printer Server's Tcp/Ip Support
Enable Printer server’s TCP/IP Support The default configuration of the printer server is with TCP/IP support enabled. Anyway, you can configure the printer server to enable TCP/IP support using the configuration program. -
Page 59: Setup Printer Server's Ip Address
Setup Printer server’s IP Address The printer 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. - Page 60 Where hostname is the device name of a printer server, the ht=1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet, the ha= tag specifies the Ethernet address of a printer server, which is the Node ID located on the printer server. The ha tag must be preceded by the ht tag. The ip= tag should correspond to the IP address you want to assign to the printer server.
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Page 61: Verify Printer Server's Ip Address
Verify Printer server’s IP Address To verify that your printer server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command: ping ip-address... -
Page 62: Configure Remote Lpd Printing On The Host
Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host The procedure you use to configure your Unix host(s) to allow printing to your network remote printer 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. - Page 63 of lpt1, lpt2 or lpt3 depends on the printer port. The printer server should now be available for printing from your Unix host.
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Page 64: Configuration Utility
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Page 65: Introduction
Introduction This chapter introduces printer 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 printer server side. -
Page 66: Search For All Available Printer Server
Search for All Available Printer server Every time when you run printer 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 printer servers on the network. All available printer servers will be listed under “Server Group”... -
Page 67: Status Of Printer Server
Status of Printer server Click “Status” icon on the tool bar, the status of the current selected printer server will be showed on the right side of the window. The information of the printer 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 printer server printing ability…etc. -
Page 68: Setup The Printer Server
Setup the Printer server Click “Setup” icon on the tool bar, the setup items of the current selected printer server will be showed on the right side of the window. Double click one of the icons to set up the selected printer server. A screen will pop up to verify “User Name”... -
Page 69: General Configuration
General Configuration Double Click “General” icon and the General configuration window will pop-up. You can see basic printer server information in this page. You also can configure the “Server Name”, “User Name” and “Password” here. Server Name, the name of the printer server. You can use this name to identify the printer server when you are searching for the printer server by the administration and client utilities. -
Page 70: Tcp/Ip Configuration
TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon and the TCP/IP configuration window will pop-up. You can configure the printer server to automatically get IP from DHCP server or manually specify static IP. The printer server also has a built-in DHCP server. You can enable this DHCP server and let it manages IP for you. - Page 71 “Enable/Disable” the DHCP server or set “Auto” and assign a range of IP addresses here. The DHCP server is disabled by default. If Auto is selected, the DHCP Server of printer server will be enabled only when there is no other DHCP Server within the network. When “Enable” or “Auto” is selected, you have to configure “Starting Address”, “Range”, “Subnet Mask”, “Gateway”...
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Page 72: Netware Printer Server Configuration
Netware Printer server Configuration Double Click “NetWare” icon and the NetWare configuration window will pop-up. This printer server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method. The printer server periodically polls the NetWare server printer queues for printing jobs. You have to assign the NetWare server name, printer server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port. -
Page 73: Appletalk Configuration
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 printer server can use these parameters to join the AppleTalk network and share the printer to other AppleTalk workstations. - Page 74 2. Click “Print & Fax”. 3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”.
- Page 75 4. Click “Add” to add the new printer server through TCP/IP.
- Page 76 5. Enter the Printer Type, Printer Address and Queue Name; then select the Printer Model to setup the printer server. Printer Type: LPD/LPR Printer Address: Input the IP Address of the printer server Queue Name: The queue name of the printer server is “lpt1”. Printer Model: Select the Printer Model that is attached to the printer server.
- Page 77 6. The printer server is installed completely. You can see it in the printer list. You can print a file to check whether the printer server is installed successfully.
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Page 78: Snmp Configuration
SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will pop up. Contact: You can enter the printer 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 printer server here. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool. -
Page 79: Smb Configuration
7.10 SMB Configuration SMB Group Name, the name of SMB group that this printer server belongs to. All PC should join the same group before they can use this printer 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. -
Page 80: System Configuration
7.11 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 printer server, and load factory defaults to the printer server. -
Page 81: Wizard
7.12 Wizard Click “Wizard” icon on the tool bar, the setup wizard item of the current selected printer server will be showed on the right side of the window. Double click the “Printer server Setup Wizard” the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup process. - Page 82 Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.11 for detail information.
- Page 83 Step 3: Setup the IP of this printer 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.
- Page 84 Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 6: Click “Save” to finish setting.
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Page 85: Report
7.14 Report Click “Report” icon on the tool bar, the Report window will pop up. The report lists basic information of all available printer servers on the network. The information includes Device Name, MAC ID, Model Type, Firmware Version and Status of printer server. -
Page 86: Web Management
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Page 87: Introduction
Introduction Printer server can be configured and managed on the Web. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet, administrator can easily configure and manage printer server’s various main functions in browsers. Simply enter printer server’s IP address into your browser’s address field to manage a printer server by printer server’s built-in Web Server. -
Page 88: Login
Login You may use any Web Browser to review the status or configure the settings of the printer server. After entering the IP address of the printer server, a login page display. You have to enter correct “User Name” and “Password” before going to the Web Management pages. Notes: Default User Name is “admin”, default password is “1234”. -
Page 89: Device Status
Device Status 8.3.1 System System Information includes “Device Name”, “Printer server Name”, “Model Type”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Address” and the protocols enabled status, etc. -
Page 90: Printer
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Page 91: Tcp/Ip
8.3.3 TCP/IP This page lists all TCP/IP settings of the printer server including “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway”. It also displays if the DHCP server is enable or not. -
Page 92: Smb
8.3.4 This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the printer server. -
Page 93: Snmp
8.3.5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP settings of the printer server. It includes the settings of “SNMP System Contact” and “SNMP System Location”. -
Page 94: Netware
8.3.6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings, including “Polling Time”, “Use Bindery Mode”, “Name of the File Server” and “Port Attached Queue”. -
Page 95: Appletalk
8.3.7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings, including “AppleTalk Zone Name” and “Printer Type” of the printer connected to the print port. -
Page 96: Setup Wizard
Setup Wizard 8.4.1 System You can change the printer server name and password of the printer server from here. Printer server Name, the name of the printer server. You can use this name to identify the printer server when you are searching for the printer server by the administration and client utilities. Password, enter the password you want to change to the printer server. - Page 97 You can enable/disable the printing protocols from the screen. To enable the function, please select “Enable”; to disable the function, please select “Disable”.
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Page 98: Tcp/Ip
8.4.2 TCP/IP You can configure the printer server to automatically get IP from DHCP server or manually specify static IP. The printer server also has a built-in DHCP server. You can enable this DHCP server and let it manages IP for you. If you need the printer server to automatically get an IP from DHCP server, select “Enable Obtain TCP/IP Settings Automatically (Use DHCP/ BOOTP)”. -
Page 99: Smb
8.4.3 You can enable/disable the SMB protocol from here. If SMB is enabled, enter the “SMB Group Name” to specify the SMB group that this printer server belongs to. All PC should join the same group before they can use this printer server by SMB protocol. “Pass Job When Error Occurred”... -
Page 100: Snmp
8.4.4 SNMP The printer server supports SNMP configuration. If it is enabled, please set up the following parameters. SNMP System Contact: You can enter the printer 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 printer server here. -
Page 101: Netware
8.4.5 NetWare This printer server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method. The printer server periodically polls the NetWare server printer queues for printing jobs. You have to assign the NetWare server name, printer server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port. Polling Time is the polling interval of the printer server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server. -
Page 102: Appletalk
8.4.6 AppleTalk AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The printer 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”... -
Page 103: Save Settings
8.4.7 Save Settings You can click the “Save Settings” to save the settings and restart the system. -
Page 104: System Tools
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. -
Page 105: Upgrade Firmware From Browser
8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser You can upgrade new firmware for this printer 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. Be aware that if you have started upgrading firmware, you have to follow all the upgrading steps or the printer server can’t turn back to normal configuration. -
Page 106: Ipp Printing
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Page 107: Introduction
Introduction IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) Printing provides a convenient way of remote printing service by TCP/IP. The printer 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 printer server by IP. -
Page 108: System Setup
System Setup 9.2.1 Printer server Side It is needless to do any setting on the printer server side. Make sure the printer server has correct IP settings. If you want to share the printers to Internet users, you have to set a real IP to the printer server. - Page 109 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 printer server. The URL format is “http://IP:631/Port Name”. The IP should be the printer server’s IP.
- Page 110 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.
- Page 111 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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Page 112: Windows Xp Sp2 Setup
1 0 . W i n d o w s X P S P 2 S e t u p In Windows XP SP2, XP SP2’s firewall would block the unknown communications. This printer server has allowed the communications data passed through the XP SP2’s firewall. In case that you do not find any printer server listed on the “Available Ports”... - Page 113 Step3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.
- Page 114 Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”. Step5. Click “Browse” to add a new program.
- Page 115 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”.
- Page 116 Step8. Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting. The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program.
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