CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION PRODUCT INTRODUCTION................1 Product Package ................2 Network Printing Architecture ............3 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 Network Printing Environment ............7 Contents of the User’s Manual............9 Firmware &...
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7. PRINT SERVER CONFIGURATION UTILITY INTRODUCTION ..................45 Search for All Available Print Server..........46 Status of Print Server..............47 Setup the Print Server ..............48 General Configuration..............49 TCP/IP Configuration..............50 Netware Print Server Configuration ..........52 AppleTalk Configuration ..............53 Bonjour Configuration ..............54 7.10 SNMP Configuration ...............55 7.11 SMB Configuration................56 7.12 System Configuration ..............57 7.13 Wizard ....................59...
In the following chapters, we will introduce in detail the printing features, installation methods, system configuration 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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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) AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Print Server Unix Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) supports TCP/IP protocol. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Windows’ printing port (see below). PTPP Windows 98 Print Server MIS-2 Print Server MIS-1 UNIX / Linux AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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NetWare Network (see below) AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
IP address of the print server and enables user directly link to the web page of the print server without entering the IP Address of the print server in web browser. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Chapter 13 In Windows XP SP2, you may not find any print server listed on the “Available Ports” in “Network Ports Quick Setup”. Please follow the instruction in this chapter and resolve the problem. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
NOTE1: MUST use the power adapter shipped with the print server, do NOT use any other power adapter from any sources. NOTE2: To prevent the compatibility problem between print server and a few printer, it is recommended that you power on the print server before the printer. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory. 2. Click “Driver and Utility” from the Auto-Run menu screen. 3.The “Print Server Utilities” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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4.Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “Change” to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the utilities. 5.The system will start to install the utilities automatically. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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6.The Print Server windows utilities Installation procedure is totally completed.and All network ports of the Print Servers detected on the network will be added to your PC automatically, click “Continue” 6.The Print Server windows utilities Installation procedure is totally completed. Click “Finish”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
IP Address, network protocols and other advanced functions. 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 software. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
This program will search for new print servers and allow you to add the new network printer port into client’s computer conveniently. Perform the standard Add Printer procedure, then you can print directly to the printer through the newly installed print server. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
However, please note that this function only supports TCP/IP network protocol. Please follow the procedures described below: Step1. Run Remote Ports Utility. Clicks “Add” to add a remote print port. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Click “Add a Printer”. Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. Step4. Select “Local printer attached to this computer” and make sure that “Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer” is not selected. Click “Next”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step9. have added printer successfully. information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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). AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 standard Windows printer sharing process. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Installation is easier and quicker. Network management is easier. Printing performance is enhanced. Relieve NetWare file server’s burden. Relieve the need of a workstation running the remote printer utility. Improve productivity by locating the printer near the workgroup. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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 server. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Type in a print queue name, such as “PQ” or “Q1”. You have now successfully created the print queue that your print server will serve. Press the Escape key until the Available Options main menu is displayed. Select Print Server Information. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. Press Escape, and answer Yes to the Save Changes question. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Your print server should now be ready to use. You should be able to redirect printing to your print server using a CAPTURE command such as the one shown in the previous section. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
2. Set up Print Server’s IP address. 3. Verify Print Server’s IP Address. 4. Configure remote LPD printing on the host. 5. Print a test page. In the next sections, we will describe these five procedures step by step. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 to enable TCP/IP support using the configuration program. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
BOOTP server as the superuser (root). Perform the following steps to add address entries, 1. 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: AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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: AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
/var/spool or /var/spool/lpd: mkdir /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chown daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chgrp daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd chmod 775 /var/spool/lpd/pserverd 3. Add an entry to the host’s /etc/printcap file, similar to the following: printer-name:\ :lp=:\ AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
System Configuration: Print Server Network Ability Setting and Firmware Upgrade. Setup Wizard: Guide You Through All the Settings. Report: List the Status of All Available Print Servers on the Network. We will explain each function separately in the following section. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
“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 window. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
AppleTalk printer type, AppleTalk zone and print server printing ability…etc. You can refresh the print server’s status by pressing the “Refresh” button You can restart the print server by pressing the “Reboot” button AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. User Name: admin Password: airlive AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. User Name / Password is used to authenticate the administrator by the Web administration tool. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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” for the print server. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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You can “Enable/Disable” the DHCP server and assign a range of IP addresses here. The DHCP server is disabled by default. When “Enable” is selected, you have to configure “Starting Address”, “Ending Address”, “Gateway” and “DNS”. The print server will assign a unique IP for each client. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. NetWare Server is the name of the NetWare file server that provides printer queues. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones, you should enter only “*” in the “Zone Name” field. Printer Type, the type of printer attached to each printer port. You can get the printer type from the manufacturer of the printer. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Service Name is a name to identify the device on IP network. The Print Server has three printer ports; please designate the unique and friendly service name for each printer connected to one of the three printer ports. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Or the printing document will not be printed completely or with unformatted messages. Waiting Time to Pass Job: The range is from 1 to 60 seconds. By default, the parameter is enabled and the default waiting time is 20 seconds. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Upgrade: You can use this “Upgrade” 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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Note that before you upgrade the firmware please make sure that the IP Address settings of the print server are in the same network as your computer. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 port name for each printer port. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.12 for detail information. Step 3: Setup the IP of this print server and the DHCP server. Please refer to section 7.6 for detail information. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step 4: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 5: Click “Save” to finish setting. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. IP Address: 192.168.2.2 User Name: Admin Password: airlive AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. Notes: Default User Name is “admin”, default password is “airlive”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
The Print Server can communicate with the printer to get the printer information including printer manufacturer, model number, printing language supported, and also the printer’s status. This page lists the information of printers connected to all printer ports. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the print server. 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”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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 “Printer Service Name” of each port. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
USB 2.0 ports and one parallel port. Each printer port has to be assigned a name. Then you can use this name to access the printer port. By default, the printer port name is “p1” for port 1, “p2” for port 2 and “p3” for port 3. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Password, enter the password you want to change to the print server. The password can be up to 8-digit alphanumeric format. The default password is “1234”. Re-type Password, enter the password you want to change to the print server again. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
If the DHCP Server is enabled, you have to assign a range of IP addresses here. Fill in the “Start IP”, “Range”, “Gateway”, “DNS” and “Domain”, and the print server will assign a unique IP for each client. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
If you want to share the printer to all workstations in all Zones, you should enter only “*” in the “Zone Name” field. Printer Type, the type of printer attached to each printer port. You can get the printer type from the manufacturer of the printer. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
IP networks. It uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers. Bonjour Function: Enable or disable “Bonjour” protocol. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Address settings o the print server are in the same network as your computer. 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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
9.Telnet Management 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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Then you will be prompted to enter the username and password. After you successfully enter the correct username and password, the following prompt will be displayed and you can start to manage this print server by command. admin# AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
SUBNET_MASK=’255.255.255. 0’ Argument Description Example Polling interval (in admin# get polling polling second) of the print PORT1_POLLTIME=3 server for waiting printing jobs on the NetWare server Name of the printer queue admin# get aq1 AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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LPD_ENABLE=1 0: disable 1: enable Argument Description Example IPP printing is enabled admin# get IPP or disabled IPP_ENABLE=1 0: disable 1: enable RAW printing is enabled admin# get RAW or disabled RAW_ENABLE=1 0: disable 1: enable AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Argument Description Example The type of the printer set printertype1 LaserW printertype1 attached to this print Riter server The name of the SMB group set SMBDG default SMBDG name that this print server joins to AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. Enable or disable IPP set IPP enable printing The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. Enable or disable RAW set RAW enable printing The value should be “disabled” or “enabled”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
9.5.3 exit “exit” command is used to leave the print server telnet management: admin# exit 9.5.4 help “help” command is used to list all telnet management commands of the print server: admin# help set argument value AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Client Side You only need to perform Window’s standard Add New Printer procedure. Step1. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Printers and Faxes”. Step2. Click “Add a Printer”. Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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“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. The default port name is “lpt1”. One example AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
Macintosh with version 9.x above. To enable LPR Printing in Macintosh, please follow the procedures below. Step1. In the Desktop, click “System Preferences”. Step2. Click “Print & Fax”. Step3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Click “Add” to add the new Print Server through TCP/IP. Step5. 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 AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Queue Name: The queue name of the Print Server is “lpt1” Printer Model: Select the Printer Model that is attached to the Print Server. Step6. The Print Server is installed completely. You can see it in the “Printer List”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step7. You can print a file to check whether the Print Server is installed successfully. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step1. Click “Yes” on the above message or click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Network Connections” to enable UPnP manually. Step2. Right click the “Local Area Connection” and select “Properties”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step3. In the “Local Area Connection Properties”, select “Advanced” option menu and click “Settings”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Step4. The “Windows Firewall” screen will be popped up, select “Exceptions” option menu. Step5. Enable “UPnP Framework” from the “Programs and Services list” and click “Ok”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
In case that you do not fi nd any print server listed on the “Available Ports” in “Network Ports Quick Setup”, please follow the steps below. Step1. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “Network Connections”. Step2. Right click “Local Area Connection” and select “Properties”. Step3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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Click “Browse” to add a new program. Step6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive). Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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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. AirLive P-203N User’s Manual...
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