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  • Page 1 Micronet Faster and Easier Networks User Manual Wireless Print Server Model No.: SP766W http://www.micronet.info...
  • Page 2 Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • 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. The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.
  • Page 4 COPYRIGHT Copyright ©2006/2007 by this company. 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 5: Table Of Contents

    1. INTRODUCTION...1 1.1 P RODUCT NTRODUCTION RODUCT ACKAGE ETWORK RINTING 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions...3 1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients ...4 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server...6 ETWORK RINTING ONTENTS OF THE & P IRMWARE 2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...11 3.
  • Page 6 5.2.1 Installation Using PCONSOLE...40 6. UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK ...43 NTRODUCTION NABLE RINT ETUP RINT 6.3.1 DHCP...44 6.3.2 BOOTP...44 ERIFY RINT ONFIGURE EMOTE 7. CONFIGURATION UTILITY ...48 NTRODUCTION EARCH FOR TATUS OF RINT ETUP THE RINT ENERAL ONFIGURATION TCP/IP C ONFIGURATION 7.7 N ETWARE RINT...
  • Page 7 EVICE TATUS 8.3.1 System...75 8.3.2 Printer ...75 8.3.3 TCP/IP...76 8.3.4 SMB ...76 8.3.5 SNMP ...77 8.3.6 NetWare...77 8.3.7 AppleTalk ...78 8.3.8 Bonjour...78 ETUP IZARD 8.4.1 System...79 8.4.2 Wireless ...82 8.4.3 TCP/IP...88 8.4.4 SMB ...89 8.4.5 SNMP ...90 8.4.6 NetWare...91 8.4.7 AppleTalk ...92...
  • Page 8 9.4 M ODIFY ETTING 9.5 O THER OMMANDS 9.5.1 ipconfig...108 9.5.2 reboot ...108 9.5.3 exit ...108 9.5.4 help...108 10. IPP PRINTING ...109 10.1 I NTRODUCTION 10.2 S YSTEM ETUP 10.2.1 Print Server Side ...109 10.2.2 Client Side ...109 11. LPR SETTING IN MAC OS...114 12.

  • Page 9: Introduction

    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.

  • Page 10: Network Printing Architecture

    Quick Installation Guide 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”...

  • Page 11: Print Server Network Functions

    1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Print Server Unix Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare 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.

  • Page 12: 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 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.
  • Page 13 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 print servers on the network, and then add their printing ports into Windows’ printing port (see below). PTPP Windows 98 Print Server...

  • Page 14: Network Printing Functions For Network 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. NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x In NetWare environment, print server offers various printing modes like print queue, remote printer, etc.

  • Page 15: 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 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.
  • Page 16 NetWare Network (see below)

  • Page 17: Contents Of The User's Manual

    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 introduce: Chapter 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network Chapter 4. Windows NT/2000/2003 Server-Based Networks Chapter 5. NetWare Network Chapter 6.

  • Page 18: Firmware & Printing Function

    Firmware & Printing Function The print 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 19: 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. 3. Connect the print server to your network by attached the network cable to the UTP port of the print server.

  • Page 20: Windows Peer-To-Peer Network

    Windows Peer-to-Peer Network 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.

  • Page 21: Administrator Installation And Setup

    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.
  • Page 22 3. The “Utilities Setup” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 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.
  • Page 23 5. Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue. 6. Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”.
  • Page 24 7. The system will start to install the utilities automatically. 8. 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”.
  • Page 25 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.
  • Page 26 10. Specify the IP Address for the Print Server manually or click “Next” to keep default IP Address, i.e. 192.168.2.2. 11. 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.
  • Page 27 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’ standard “Add Printer” procedure (please refer to Section 3.6).

  • Page 28: Administrator Utilities

    Please refer to Chapter 7 for the detail instruction of the configuration. Remote Ports – Add the network port of remote printer server to your PC. Uninstall – Assistant for removing all installed administrator...

  • Page 29: Client Installation And Setup

    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.
  • Page 30 3. The “Utilities Setup” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 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.
  • Page 31 5. Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”. 6. The system will start to install the utilities automatically. 7. 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”.
  • Page 32 8. 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. 9. The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”.
  • Page 33 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.

  • Page 34: Client Utilities

    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.

  • Page 35: Network Ports Quick Setup

    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.
  • Page 36 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.

  • Page 37: Remote Ports (Utility)

    Remote Ports (Utility) Remote Ports Utility offers a convenient way for you to manage and add printer port of the remote print server. From the assistant of this utility, you can print to other print servers outside the subnet across network segment.
  • Page 38 3. 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 39: 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 40 5. Choose the suitable “Print Server Network Port” which was created by the Administrator Installation or Client Installation process and click “Next”.
  • Page 41 6. 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 42 8. Choose to print the test page or not. It is recommended to print a test page. Click “Next”. 9. You have added the printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.

  • Page 43: Windows Nt/2000/2003 Network

    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).

  • Page 44: Windows Nt/2000/2003 Server Installation And Setup

    Step2. Please add/configure the Peer-to-Peer Printing of the Windows NT/2000/2003 network printer and verify that you can print from Windows NT/2000/2003 to the print server by the installed PTPP driver. Step3. Share the above server’s printer to the network by performing the...

  • Page 45: 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...

  • Page 46: Netware Network

    NetWare Network 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.
  • Page 47 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...

  • Page 48: Installation Using Pconsole

    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 Run the NetWare PCONSOLE program. Change the current file server, if necessary, using the Change Current File Server menu selection.
  • Page 49 10. Select Print 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 print server is with only one port, you do not need to configure this Type field.
  • Page 50 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.

  • Page 51: Unix System Network

    UNIX System Network 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.

  • Page 52: Setup Print Server's Ip Address

    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 53: Verify Print Server's Ip Address

    2. Add an entry to the host’s /etc/bootptab file, similar to the following: hostname:\ :ht=1:\ :ha=print_server_ethernet_address:\ :ip=print_server_ip_address: Lines should be indented with tabs. Where hostname is the device name 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.

  • Page 54: Configure Remote Lpd Printing On The Host

    2. The host name should be the name (or IP address) that you have assigned to the print server. 3. The printer name (or queue name) on the remote host should be lpt1, lpt2 or lpt3, the name of the printer port on the print server.
  • Page 55 The rp= entry should correspond to the port name of the remote printer. The values should be one of lpt1, lpt2 or lpt3 depends on the printer port. The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host.

  • Page 56: Configuration Utility

    NetWare server in the network environment. The Configuration Utility provides the following configuration and management functions: Search Print Server: Search All Available Printer Servers on the Network. Print Server Status: Display Print Server Network Status. General Configuration: General Information of print server.

  • Page 57: Search For All Available Print Servers

    Search for All Available Print Servers Every time when you run print 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 print servers on the network. All available print servers will be listed under “Print Server Group”...

  • Page 58: Status Of Print Server

    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.

  • Page 59: Setup The Print Server

    Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon 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.

  • Page 60: General Configuration

    General Configuration Double Click “General” icon and the General configuration window will pop-up. 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.

  • Page 61: Tcp/Ip Configuration

    TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon and the TCP/IP configuration window will pop-...
  • Page 62 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”...

  • Page 63: Netware Print Server Configuration

    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. Polling Time is the polling interval of the print server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server.

  • Page 64: Appletalk Configuration

    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 “*” in the “Zone Name” field.

  • Page 65: Bonjour Configuration

    Bonjour Configuration Bonjour enables automatically discovery of computers, devices and services on IP network. The service name will be seen by users on IP network, you have to designate the unique and friendly name to describe the device.

  • Page 66: Snmp Configuration

    7.10 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will pop 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.

  • Page 67: Smb Configuration

    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.

  • Page 68: System Configuration

    Port Name is the name of the printer port. Each printer port has to be assigned a name. The client utility uses this name to access the printer...
  • Page 69 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” button to finish the firmware update process. If you want to reset the Print Server to default factory settings, please click “Load Default”.

  • Page 70: Wireless Configuration

    7.13 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 71 Infrastructure Mode: In the Infrastructure mode, you have to let the print server associate with an access point. You let the print server scan for an available access point automatically or manually assign the SSID of the access point you want to use.
  • Page 72 Ad Hoc Mode: In the Ad-Hoc mode, you can let the print server automatically associate with other wireless station or manually assign the SSID of your wireless network. You can let the print server automatically select the channel that is the same with the peer or manually assign a channel. If you select to let the print server scan for an active wireless station, the following window will pop up.
  • Page 73 The list is the scanned active wireless stations. Select a wireless station in the list and click “Next”. If you cannot find the wireless station that you want the print server to communicate with, click “Scan” to let the print server scan again.
  • Page 74 WEP Security Mode: You can select “64 bit” or “128 bit” length and “Hexadecimal” or “ASCII” format for the encryption key. Longer key length can provide stronger security but worth communication performance.
  • Page 75 Enter four key values by following the rules below and select one key as the default key. PassPhrase – A passphrase simplifies the WEP encryption process by automatically generating the WEP encryption keys for the print server. This setting is only valid when the security mode is in “WEP (HEX)”.
  • Page 76 WPA-shared key Security Mode: When “WPA-shared key”, also named “WPA-PSK” requires users to select the advanced encryption methods, i.e. TKIP or AES and enter a set of shared key. TKIP – TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) changes the temporal key every 10,000 packets. This insures much greater security than the standard WEP security.
  • Page 77 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. When you finish configuring the IP settings, click “Next”...

  • Page 78: Wizard

    7.14 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.
  • Page 79 1. Set up the name of this print server and the port name for the print server. 2. Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.12 for detail information.
  • Page 80 3. Setup the IP of this print server and the DHCP server. Please refer to section 7.6 for detail information. 4. Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information.

  • Page 81: Report

    5. Click “Save” to finish setting. 7.15 Report 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 and Firmware Version of print server.

  • Page 82: Web Management

    Web Management 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.

  • Page 83: Device Status

    Device Status 8.3.1 System System Information includes “Device Name”, “Print Server Name”, “Model Type”, “System Up Time”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Address” and the protocols enabled status, etc. 8.3.2 Printer This page lists information of printers connected to all printer ports.

  • Page 84: Tcp/Ip

    8.3.3 TCP/IP This page lists all TCP/IP settings of the print server including “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway”. It also lists DHCP server setting. 8.3.4 This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the print server.

  • Page 85: Snmp

    8.3.5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP settings of the print server. It includes the settings of “SNMP System Contact” and “SNMP System Location”. 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 86: Appletalk

    8.3.7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings, including “AppleTalk Zone Name” and “Printer Type” of printers connected to all print ports. 8.3.8 Bonjour This page lists Bonjour settings, including “Port Service Name” of each port.

  • Page 87: Setup Wizard

    Port Name is the name of the printer port. Each printer port has to be assigned a name. Then you can use this name to access the printer port.

  • Page 88: Admin Password

    8.4.1.1 Admin Password It allows you to change the password of the print server. USER Name: the administrator name of the print server. If you change the user name, you have to login to the print server from administrator utility or web management with the new name.
  • Page 89 8.4.1.2 Advanced Settings You can enable/disable the printing protocols and management tools from the screen. To enable the function, please select “Enabled”; to disable the function, please select “Disabled”.

  • Page 90: Wireless

    8.4.2 Wireless 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 91 2. If “Auto” is selected, the print server can automatically decide to enable or disable the wireless function. The print server only can work in ether Ethernet or wireless LAN mode. It cannot work in both Ethernet and wireless LAN mode at the same time. When the print server starts up, it will auto-detect if the LAN port is connected to an active network by an Ethernet cable.

  • Page 92: Site Survey

    8.4.2.1 Site Survey You can use this “Site Survey” function to search for available access points in you location. In the list is the information of all available access points or wireless stations, includes 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 go back to “Wireless”...
  • Page 93 8.4.2.2 Encryption 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”. 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 94 Key 1 – Key 4 – The WEP keys are used to encrypt data transmitted within the wireless network. Fill the text box by following the rules below. 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.
  • Page 95 AES – AES has been developed to ensure the highest degree of security and authenticity for digital information and it is the most advanced solution defined by IEEE 802.11i for the security in the wireless network. Pre-shared Key Format – Select “Pass phrase” or “Hex” key format.

  • Page 96: Tcp/Ip

    8.4.3 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.

  • Page 97: Smb

    Pass Job When Error Occurred is for you to set the interval time for bypassing the current printing job in order to avoid the printing job is not printed completely while the printer is interrupted unexpectedly because of paper out or off line.

  • Page 98: Snmp

    8.4.5 SNMP The print server supports SNMP configuration. If it is enabled, please set up the following parameters. SNMP System Contact: You can enter the print 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 print server here.

  • Page 99: Netware

    Attached Queue is the name of the printer queue on the NetWare server. The printer queue keeps all printing jobs waiting on the NetWare server. You have to assign a printer queue for each printer port of this print server.

  • Page 100: 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 “*” in the “Zone Name”...

  • Page 101: Bonjour

    8.4.8 Bonjour Bonjour enables automatically discovery of computers, devices and services on IP network. The service name will be seen by users on IP network, you have to designate the unique and friendly name to describe the device. 8.4.9 Save Settings You can click the “Save Settings”...

  • Page 102: 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 103: Upgrade Firmware From Browser

    8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser You can upgrade new firmware for this print 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 print server can’t turn back to normal configuration.

  • Page 104: Backup Setting

    8.5.3 Backup Setting To backup the print server setting to a “config.bin” file, select “Backup settings from Print Server”. To apply the setting from the backup file, select “Restore settings from file” and specify a file to restore. 8.5.4 Restore System From here, you can select the file to restore this print server.

  • Page 105: Telnet Management

    9. Telnet Management 9.1 Introduction Print server can be configured and managed by Telnet. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet, administrator can easily configure and manage print server’s various main functions by a telnet client. 9.2 Login Execute the Telnet client tool and connect to the print server IP. telnet 192.168.2.2 Then you will be prompted to enter the username and password.

  • Page 106: Get Setting Values Get " Command

    9.3 Get Setting Values – “get” Command “get” command is used to get the setting values of this print server. The format of “get” command is as following: get argument Then the argument value will be displayed after the command. For example, if I want to get IP address of the print server, I type “get ip”...
  • Page 107 Argument Description wlmode Wireless LAN mode is Infrastructure or Ad 0: Infrastructure 1: Ad Hoc ESSID ESSID of the wireless LAN channel Channel number used by wireless LAN The mode of WEP 0: disable 1: 64 bit WEP enabled 2: 128 bit WEP enabled defkey Default WEP key...
  • Page 108 Argument Description key644 64 bit WEP key 4 key1281 128 bit WEP key 1 key1282 128 bit WEP key 2 key1283 128 bit WEP key 3 key1284 128 bit WEP key 4 IP of the print server admin# get ip gateway Default gateway of the print server...
  • Page 109 Name of the printer queue on the NetWare server applezone The name of AppleTalk zone that this print server joins to printertype1 The type of the printer attached to this print server SMBDG The name of the SMB group name that this print server joins...
  • Page 110 Argument appletalk AppleTalk printing is enabled or disabled 0: disable SMBD SMB printing is enabled or disabled 0: disable SNMP SNMP management protocol is enabled or disabled 0: disable NetWare Bindery printing is enabled or disabled 0: disable LPR printing is enabled or disabled 0: disable IPP printing is enabled or...

  • Page 111: Modify Setting Values Set " Command

    9.4 Modify Setting Values – “set” Command “set” command is used to modify the setting values of this print server. The format of “set” command is as following: set argument_name value Then the value will be written into the system configuration. For example, if you want to set IP address of the print server to 192.168.2.2, type “set ip ‘192.168.2.2’”...
  • Page 112 Argument Description The mode of WEP. The value should be “disable”, “wep64” or “wep128” defkey Default WEP key number. The value should be 0~3. 0: key 1 2: key 3 key641 64 bit WEP key 1. The value should be 10 digit Hex value key642 64 bit WEP key 2.
  • Page 113 Polling interval (in second) of the print server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server Name of the printer queue on the NetWare server applezone The name of AppleTalk zone that this print server joins to printertype The type of the printer...
  • Page 114 Argument Description DHCPS Enable or disable the DHCP server. The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. DHCP Enable or disable to get dynamic IP by DHCP. The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. appletalk Enable or disable AppleTalk printing The value should be “disabled”...
  • Page 115 Argument Description Enable or disable IPP printing The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. Enable or disable RAW printing The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. Example set IPP enable set RAW enable...

  • Page 116: Other Commands

    9.5 Other Commands 9.5.1 ipconfig “ipconfig” command is used to quickly get the IP settings (IP, subnet mask, default gateway) of the print server: admin# ipconfig IP_ADDR=192.168.2.2 SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0 DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.2.254 9.5.2 reboot “reboot” command is used to restart the print server: admin# reboot 9.5.3 exit...

  • Page 117: Ipp Printing

    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.
  • Page 118 3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. 4. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer”. Click “Next”.
  • Page 119 5. 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.
  • Page 120 7. Choose to set the print whether as a default printer or not. Click “Next”.
  • Page 121 8. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.

  • Page 122: Lpr Setting In Mac Os

    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.
  • Page 123 3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”. 4. Click “Add” to add the new Print Server through TCP/IP.
  • Page 124 5. 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”...
  • Page 125 6. The Print Server is installed completely. You can see it in the “Printer List”. 7. You can print a file to check whether the Print Server is installed successfully.

  • Page 126: Upnp Setup

    12. UPnP Setup When the UPnP function is enabled, the print server can be detected by UPnP compliant system such as Windows XP. The print server will be displayed in the Neighborhood of Windows XP, so you can directly double click the print server or right click the print server and select “Invoke”...
  • Page 127 Enable UPnP in Windows XP SP2 If you can’t find the print server in the Neighborhood of Windows XP SP2 or you have seen the following message when you double click the print server. You have to check if UPnP function is blocked by the firewall. Please follow the steps below to enable it.
  • Page 128 3. In the “Local Area Connection Properties”, select “Advanced” option menu and click “Settings”.
  • Page 129 4. The “Windows Firewall” screen will be popped up, select “Exceptions” option menu.
  • Page 130 5. Enable “UPnP Framework” from the “Programs and Services list” and click “OK”.

  • Page 131: Windows Xp Sp2 Setup

    13. Windows XP SP2 Setup In Windows XP SP2, XP SP2’s firewall would block the unknown communication. 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”...
  • Page 132 3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.
  • Page 133 4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”.
  • Page 134 5. Click “Browse” to add a new program.
  • Page 135 6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive).
  • Page 136 7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “OK”.
  • Page 137 8. 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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