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.
Product Package This package contains the following components: One Print Server One Power Adapter One Quick Installation Guide One CD-ROM (Including all the software utilities, drivers and User’s Manual)
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”...
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. 1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients Client User...
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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 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 users. PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) supports TCP/IP protocol. In the client installation procedure, after PTPP (Peer- to-Peer Printing Driver) is installed into Windows, the...
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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.
Our print server system provides PTPP (Peer-to-Peer 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.
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.
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 Windows NT/2000/2003 Server-Based management utility according to the...
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“Available Ports” in “Network Ports Quick Setup” in Windows XP SP2.
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...
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.
System Architecture Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable for most medium and small network environments. installation procedure, users can immediately enjoy the convenience of network printing. Installation procedure is separated into following two parts: Administrator Installation and Setup (refer to section 2 for more detailed information).
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Client Installation and Configuration (refer to section 3 for more detailed information). Client users must install Windows PTPP driver (Peer- to-Peer Printing) for network printing. In addition, after PTPP is installed, the system will automatically search for all print servers on the network, and add the printing port of the print servers into Windows’...
PC (TCP/IP, IPX and/or NetBEUI). It will be helpful in your installation process. 1. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should executed automatically.
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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.
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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”.
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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”. will start...
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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.
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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...
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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).
Administrator Utilities After Administrator Installation is completed, there will be four utilities in print server’s Program folder. Network Ports Quick Setup – Add the network ports of print servers within the network to your PC. Print Server Configuration – Allows configure the print server’s IP Address, network...
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. The Autorun.exe program should executed automatically.
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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.
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5. Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to, click “Next”. 6. The system automatically. will start install utilities...
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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”. Note that if there are no print servers detected in the network currently, please click “Continue”...
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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.
The other two tools are described as follows. 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.
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(see below). 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...
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.
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Step1. Run Remote Ports Utility. Clicks “Add” to add a remote print port. 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.
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select your printer port as the newly added remote printer port.
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”...
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“Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer” is not selected. Click “Next”. Step5. Choose the suitable “Print Server Network Port” which was created by the Administrator Installation or Client Installation process and click “Next”.
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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. Step7.
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Step8. Choose to print the test page or not. It is recommended to print a test page. Click “Next”. Step9. You have added the printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.
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 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.
Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer-to-peer connection (PTPP) between Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Print Server. Step1. If this is your first time installing print server, please install administrator NT/2000/2003 server first. Refer to section 3.2 for installation instructions.
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Step3. Share the above server’s printer to the network by performing the standard Windows printer sharing process.
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.
NetWare server, the NetWare server stores the job in a print queue and then the print server gets the print job from the queue to printers. Windows 98...
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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 log into the...
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.
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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.
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Press Escape, and answer Yes to the Save Changes question. Select Queues Serviced by Printer, then select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2) and press Enter. Press Insert and add your newly created print queue to the list of queues serviced by the printer. Enter a priority number for the queue service, or press Enter to accept the default.
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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. Your print server should now be ready to use.
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. This chapter explains how to configure the print server...
Enable Print Server’s TCP/IP Support The default configuration of the print server is with TCP/IP support enabled. Anyway, you can configure the print server enable TCP/IP support using configuration program.
BOOTP protocol to set up the IP address of the print server. We recommend that the BOOTP server should be located on the same subnet as the print server. If you use Network Information Services (NIS) in your system,...
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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 must be preceded by the ht tag. The ip= tag should correspond to the IP address you want to assign to the print server.
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For example, a print server with the following configuration: 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: PS010101:\ :ht=1:\ :ha=0000B4010101:\ :ip=203.66.191.12:...
Verify Print Server’s IP Address To verify that your print server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command: ping ip-address...
(root). printing, Optionally, assign a name corresponding to the print server’s IP address. You can add this address to the /etc/hosts file, by adding a line such as: 2. Create a spool directory for the printer in the same...
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(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.
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The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host.
Utility installation procedure - 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 NetWare server in the network environment.
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SNMP Configuration: SNMP Information Configuration. SMB: Configure the SMB Group Name. System Configuration: Print Server Network Ability Setting and Firmware Upgrade. Setup Wizard: Guide Through Settings. Report: List the Status of All Available Print Servers on the Network. We will explain each function separately in the following section.
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 window. on the tool bar. The...
Status of Print Server Click “Status” icon current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window. 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...
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You can restart the print server by pressing the “Reboot” button...
Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon of the 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”...
You also can configure the “Server 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.
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.
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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” and “Gateway”...
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. NetWare Server is the name of the NetWare file server that provides printer queues.
AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The print server can use these parameters to join the AppleTalk network and share the printer to other AppleTalk workstations. You have to setup the “Zone Name”...
Contact: You can enter the print server administrator’s contact information 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. “SNMP” icon here.
SMB Configuration SMB Group Name, the name of 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. Pass Job when Error Occurred: When the printer is...
” button and select the correct firmware in your PC. After selecting the firmware file, click the “Upgrade” button to finish the firmware update process. Load Default: If you want to reset the Print Server to default factory settings, please click “Load Default”. “System”...
7.12 Wizard Click “Wizard” icon 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.
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Step 1: Set up the name of this print server. Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.11 for detail information.
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Step 3: Setup the IP of this print 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.
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Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 6: Click “Save” to finish setting. Please reboot the print server to let these settings take effect.
Click “Report” icon 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 the print server. on the tool bar, the Report...
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. The default IP Address, User Name and Password settings of the Print server are as follows.
You may use any Web 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 Name” and “Password” before going to the Web Management pages.
Device Status 8.3.1 System System Information includes “Device Name”, “Print Server Name”, “Model Type”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Address” and the protocols enabled status, etc.
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.
You can change the print server name and password of the print server from here. Print 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.
8.4.1.1 Advanced Settings You can enable/disable the printing protocols from the screen. To enable the function, please select “Enable”; to disable the function, please select “Disable”.
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)”.
“Start IP”, “Range”, “DNS”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway”, and the print server will assign a unique IP for each client. Note that when “Auto” is selected, the DHCP Server of the print server will be enabled only when there is no other DHCP Server within the network.
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. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool.
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...
8.4.6 AppleTalk AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The print 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”...
Printer Type, the type of printer attached to each printer port. You can get the printer type from the manufacturer of the printer. 8.4.7 Save Settings You can click the “Save Settings” to save the settings and restart the system.
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.
Any PC that can support 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.
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.
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Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. Step4. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer”. Click “Next”.
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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.
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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. Step7.
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Step8. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.
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.
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Step3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.
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Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”.
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Step5. Click “Browse” to add a new program. Step6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive).
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Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”.
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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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