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  • Page 1 Wireless Print Server User’s Manual Version: 1.0(July, 2005)

  • Page 2: Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement

    COPYRIGHT Copyright 2005/2006 by Edimax Technology. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company.
  • Page 3 Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled environment. In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    7. CONFIGURATION UTILITY 7.3 Status of Print Server... 41 7.4 Setup the Print Server... 42 7.5 AppleTalk Configuration... 43 7.6 General Configuration... 44 7.7 Netware Print Server Configuration ... 45 7.8 System Configuration... 46 Contents 1.1 PRODUCT 5.1 SYSTEM 6.1 INTRODUCTION... 35 7.1 INTRODUCTION .
  • Page 5 System Tools ... 78 8.5.1 Load Default ... 78 8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser ... 78 9.2 System Setup... 80 9.2.1 Print Server Side ... 80 9.2.2 Client Side ... 80 10. WINDOWS XP SP2 SETUP... 83 8.1 INTRODUCTION ... 62...

  • Page 6: Product Introduction

    In the following chapters, we will introduce in detail the printing features, installation methods, and system configuration for different network environments. If you would like to set up and install print server quickly, please refer to the Quick Installation Guide that comes along with this print server.

  • Page 7: Network Printing Architecture

    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...

  • Page 8: Network Printing Functions For Clients

    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...
  • Page 9 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.

  • Page 10: Network Printing Functions For Network Server

    Printing) driver and utilities for Windows NT/2000/2003. After PTPP is installed, the server can directly print through print server. Adding this printing function into Windows NT/2000/2003 Server allows print queue, user authority management, and many other advanced features to be used.

  • Page 11: 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 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...
  • Page 12 Internet by the IPP protocol. Chapter 10 introduces how to deal with the problem that if you can’t find any print server listed on the “Available Ports” in “Network Ports Quick Setup” in Windows XP SP2.

  • Page 13: Firmware & Printing Function

    Unpack the print server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. Connect the print server to the printer you want to share on the network. Connect the print server to your network by attached the network cable to the UTP port of the print server.

  • Page 14: Windows Peer-To-Peer Network

    3 . Wi n d o w s P e e r - t o - P e e r N e t w o r k 3 . 1 S ys t e m Ar c h i t e c t u r e Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable for most medium and small network environments.

  • Page 15: Administrator Installation And Setup

    Before the installation, please verify that your network protocol is installed on your PC (TCP/IP, IPX and/or NetBEUI). 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.
  • Page 16 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. Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components.
  • Page 17 The system will start to install the utilities automatically.
  • Page 18 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.
  • Page 19 “Next” to keep default IP Address, i.e. 192.168.2.2. The configuration summary is displayed in the window. Now, you have completed the “Print Server Setup”. Click “Finish” and your system will add network port of the Print Server to your PC automatically. The Administrator Installation procedure is totally...
  • Page 20 Install all utilities and drivers to the administrator’s PC. Configure the print server (including the print server name and network protocol) Add the network port of the print server to the administrator’s PC. If you want to print from this administrator’s PC to the print server, all you need to do is to perform Windows’...

  • Page 21: Client Installation And Setup

    Before the installation procedure, please confirm that your PC has connected to the network and installed at least one network protocol. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory.
  • Page 22 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. Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”. The system will start to install the utilities automatically.
  • Page 23 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”. The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”.
  • Page 24 After the installation, you have completed the following tasks: Install all utilities and drivers to the client’s PC. Add all the print server’s network ports of the network to the client’s PC. You can then perform the Windows’ standard “Add Printer”...

  • Page 25: Client Utilities

    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,...

  • Page 26: Remote Ports (Utility)

    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.
  • Page 27 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.

  • Page 29: Windows Add Printer Procedure

    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.
  • Page 30 Step5. Choose the suitable “Print Server Network Port” which was created by the Administrator Installation or Client Installation process and click “Next”. Step6. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click “Next”. If your printer is not in the list, click “Have Disk…”...
  • Page 31 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 32 Step9. You have added the printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.

  • Page 33: Architecture

    4 . Wi n d o w s N T / 2 0 0 0 / 2 0 0 3 N e t w o r k 4 . 1 S ys t e m Ar c h i t e c t u r e 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...

  • Page 34: Windows Nt/2000/2003 Server Installation And Setup

    (PTPP) between W indows 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.

  • Page 35: User Installation And Setup

    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.

  • Page 36: System Architecture

    NetW are server, the NetW are server stores the job in a print queue and then the print server gets the print job from the queue to printers.

  • Page 37: Installation Using Pconsole

    Available Options main menu is displayed. 7. Select Print Server Information. 8. Press the Insert key to add a new NetW are print server object. The print server name can be identical to the PSxxxxxx name printed on the label of the print server.
  • Page 38 12. Select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2), and press Enter, then select LPT1 (or LPT2, LPT3) in the Type field. If your print server is with only one port, you do not need to configure this Type field.
  • Page 39 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.

  • Page 40: Unix System Network 6.1 Introduction

    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.

  • Page 41: Dhcp

    Lines should be indented with tabs. W here hostname is the device na me of a print server, the ht=1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet, the ha= tag specifies the Ethernet address of a print server, which is the Node ID located on the print server. The ha tag 203.66.191.12...
  • Page 42 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: 6.4 Verify Print Server’s IP Address To verify that your print server is responding to the newly...
  • Page 43 (name1|name2). The rm= entry should correspond to the IP address you have assigned to the print server. You can also use a host name if you have assigned one in the /etc/hosts file. The sd= entry should correspond to the spool directory you created in the previous step.

  • Page 44: Configuration Utility 7.1 Introduction

    - refer to section 3.2 and 3.3. This utility provides the most complete management and configuration functions on the print server side. This utility only provides configuration functions for print server itself; it does not include configuration functions for client side or other file server or NetW are server in the network environment.
  • Page 45 “Print Server Group” on the left side of the window. You must select the print server you would like to configure from the list. The system will, at the same time, display the selected print server’s status on the right side of the...

  • Page 46: Status Of Print Server

    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,...

  • Page 47: Setup The Print Server

    7.4 Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon 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”...

  • Page 48: Appletalk Configuration

    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. If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones, you should enter only “*”...

  • Page 49: General Configuration

    Group Name”, “User Name” and “Password” here. Printer Server Name, the name of the print server. You can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the print server by the administration and client utilities.

  • Page 50: Netware Print Server Configuration

    NetW are server name, print server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port. Polling Time is the polling interval of the print server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server. NetWare Server is the name of the NetWare file server that...

  • Page 51: System Configuration

    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. After selecting the firmware file, click the “Upgrade”...
  • Page 52 Ethernet or wireless LAN mode. It cannot work in both Ethernet and wireless LAN mode at the same time. W hen the print server starts up, it will auto- detect if the LAN port is connected to an active network by an Ethernet cable.

  • Page 53: Tcp/Ip Configuration

    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”...
  • Page 54 “Auto” and assign a range of IP addresses here. The DHCP server is disabled by default. If “Auto” is selected, the DHCP Server of print server will be enabled only when there is no other DHCP Server within the network. When “Enable”...

  • Page 55: Wireless Configuration

    7.10 Wireless Configuration If you want to use the print server through wireless LAN, please set up the print server through Ethernet first and make sure your wireless LAN setting is correct. After setting the wireless LAN, unplug the Ethernet cable and restart the print server, then you can start to use the print server through wireless LAN.
  • Page 56 SSID of the access point you want to use. If you select to let the print server scan for an available access point, the following window will pop up. The list is the scanned available access points. Select an access point in the list and click “Next”.
  • Page 57 If you select to let the print server scan for an active wireless station, the following window will pop up.
  • Page 58 This print server supports WEP and WPA-PSK security mode. If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network, you have to select “WEP(ASCII)” or “WEP(HEX)”. If you want to use WPA-PSK, you have to select “WPA-shared key”. The wireless security setting should be the same with other wireless devices in the same network.
  • Page 59 PassPhrase – A passphrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by Ÿ automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server. This setting is only valid when the security mode is in “WEP(HEX)”. Key 1 to Key 4 – If the key length is 64-bit, enter 10-digit Hex values Ÿ...
  • Page 60 When “WPA-shared key”, also named “WPA-PSK” requires users to select the advanced encryption methods, i.e. TKIP and enter a set of shared key. TKIP – TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) changes the temporal Ÿ key every 10,000 packets. This insures much greater security than the standard WEP security.
  • Page 61 You can select to let the print server automatically obtain IP settings with DHCP client or manually assign the IP settings. If you manually assign the IP settings, you have to enter IP address, subnet mask and default gateway address.

  • Page 62: Snmp Configuration

    7.11 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will pop up. Contact: You can enter the print server administrator’s contact information here. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool. Location: You can enter the installed location of the print server here.
  • Page 63 Double click the “Print Server Setup Wizard” the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup process. Step 1: Set up the name of this print server and the SMB Group Name for the print server. Also set up “Enable”, “Disable”...
  • Page 64 Step 3: Setup the IP of this print server and the DHCP server. Please refer to section 7.9 for detail information. Step 4: Setup the AppleTalk printing. Please refer to section 7.5 for detail information. Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section...
  • Page 65 Step 6: Select the Wireless Adapter mode and complete wireless LAN settings. The other procedures are the same with “W ireless” Setting in “Setup” screen. Please refer to section 7.10 for detail information. Step 7: Click “Save” to finish setting.
  • Page 66 Click “Report” icon on the tool bar, the Report window will pop up. The report lists basic information of all available print servers on the network. The information includes Device Name, MAC ID, Model Type, Firmware Version and Status of print server.

  • Page 67: Web Management 8.1 Introduction

    You may use any W eb Browser to review the status or configure the settings of the print server. After entering the IP address of the print server, a login page display. You have to enter correct “User Na me” and “Pas s word” before going to the W eb Management pages.

  • Page 68: Device Status

    8.3 Device Status 8.3.1 S ystem Syste m Infor mation includes “Device Na me”, “Print Server Na me”, “ Model Type”, “Syste m Up Time”, “Fir mware Version”, “MAC Address”, “W ireless LAN Statu s” and the protocols enabled status, etc.

  • Page 69: Tcp/Ip

    8.3.3 TCP/IP This page lists all TCP/IP settings of t he print server including “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gate wa y”. It also lists DHCP server setting. 8.3.4 This page lists the SMB group setting of the print server.

  • Page 70: Snmp

    8.3.5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP set tings of the print server. It includes the settings of “SNMP Syste m Contact” and “SNMP Syste m Location”. 8.3.6 NetWare This page lists NetW are settings, including “Polling Time”, “Use Bindery...

  • Page 71: Appletalk

    This page lists AppleTalk settings, including “AppleTalk Zone Na me” and “Printer Type” of printers connected to all print ports. Setup Wizard 8.4.1 S ystem You can change the print server name and password of the print server from here.

  • Page 72: Advanced Settings

    Ethernet first and make sure your wireless LAN setting is correct. After setting the wireless LAN, unplug the Ethernet cable and restart the print server, then you can start to use the print...

  • Page 73: General Setting

    If “Disable” is selected, the print server can only connect to the network through wired Ethernet. If “Enable” is selected, the print server can only connect to the network through W ireless LAN. If “Auto” is selected, the print server can automatically decide to enable or disable the wireless function.

  • Page 74: Encryption

    Ethernet cable. If the print server is connected to an active network by Ethernet cable when starting up, the print server will run in Ethernet mode. If the print server is not connected to an active network by Ethernet cable when starting up, the print server will run in wireless LAN mode.
  • Page 75 PassPhrase – A passphrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server. Default Key – Select one of the four keys to encrypt your data. Only the key you select it in the “Default key” will take effect.
  • Page 76 64-bit WEP: input 10-digit Hex values (in the "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" range) or 5-digit ASCII character as the encryption keys. For example: “0123456aef“ or “Guest“. 128-bit WEP: input 26-digit Hex values (in the "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" range) or 10-digit ASCII characters as the encryption keys. For example: “01234567890123456789abcdef“...

  • Page 77: Site Survey

    SSID, BSSID, Channel, Type, Encryption and Signal Strength. You can select one wireless device in the list for this print server to associate with or you have to use General Setting to manually setup the wireless parameters.

  • Page 78: Tcp/Ip

    DHCP server. You can enable this DHCP server and let it manages IP for you. If you need the print server to automatically get an IP from DHCP server, select “Enable Obtain TCP/IP Settings Automatically (Use DHCP/ BOOTP)”. You also can select “Disable Use the following TCP/IP Settings”...

  • Page 79: Smb

    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 print server belongs to. All PC should join the same group before they can use this print server by SMB protocol. 8.4.5...

  • Page 80: Netware

    NetW are server name, print server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port. Polling Time is the polling interval of the print server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server. Name of the File Server is the name of the NetWare file...

  • Page 81: Appletalk

    Type” for each printer port of this print server. AppleTalk Enable: Enable or disable “AppleTalk”. AppleTalk 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. If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones, you should enter only “*”...

  • Page 82: Save Settings

    8.4.8 Save Settings You can click the “Save Settings” to save the settings and restart the system.

  • Page 83: 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. 8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser...
  • Page 84 You can upgrade ne w fir mware for this print server in this page. Click “Browse” to select the new fir mware in your storage and then click “OK”, the firmware will be updated in several minutes. Be a ware that if you have started upgrading firmware, you ha ve to follow all the upgrading steps or the print server can’t turn back to nor mal...

  • Page 85: System Setup

    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.
  • Page 86 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.
  • Page 87 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”.

  • Page 88: Windows Xp Sp2 Setup

    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.
  • Page 89 Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”.
  • Page 90 Click “Browse” to add a new program. Step5. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Step6. Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive). A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is Step7. displayed in the list, click “Ok”.
  • Page 91 Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting. The Step8. Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program.

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