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  • Page 1 802.11g Wireless Direct Attached Print Server FPS-1100DG User’s Manual...
  • Page 2 PLANET Technology. Disclaimer PLANET Technology does not warrant that the hardware will work properly in all environments and applications, and makes no warranty and representation, either implied or expressed, with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents CHAPTER1 INTRODUCTION..........5 1.1 Product Introduction...........................5 1.2 Product Package............................5 Network Printing Architecture ........................5 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions.......................6 1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients ....................7 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server................8 Network Printing Environment .......................9 Contents of the User’s Manual......................10 Firmware &...
  • Page 4 7.11 SNMP ..............................51 7.12 Wizard..............................51 7.13 Report ..............................55 CHAPTER8 WEB MANAGEMENT........56 Introduction ............................56 Web Management of Print Server ..................56 8.2.1 Login .............................56 Device Status............................57 8.3.1 System ............................57 8.3.2 Printer............................57 8.3.3 TCP/IP............................58 8.3.4 SMB ..............................58 8.3.5 SNMP............................59 8.3.6 NetWare ............................59 8.3.7 AppleTalk ............................60 Setup Wizard ............................60...

  • Page 5: Chapter1 Introduction

    C h a p t e r 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n 1.1 Product Introduction Thank you for purchasing and using our FPS-1100DG. 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 6: Print Server Network Functions

    Network Printing Environment Network Server Print Server Client User Unix Print Server Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 98 Workstation Detailed examples will then be illustrated through actual network environment. 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Print Server Unix Print Server Windows NT Server...

  • Page 7: 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 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Our print server system provides PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP users.

  • Page 8: Network Printing Functions For Network Server

    PTPP Windows 98 Print Server MIS-2 Print Server MIS-1 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 to print server. MAC OS MAC OS can use the system-standard AppleTalk network to print to print server. 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server Network Server Unix...

  • Page 9: Network Printing Environment

    In NetWare environment, print server offers various printing modes like print queue, remote printer, etc. 1.4 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 to print server. Windows NT/2000 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows NT/2000.

  • Page 10: Contents Of The User's Manual

    1.5 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 3, 4, 5, and 6 introduces: Chapter 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network Chapter 4. Windows NT/2000 Server-Based Network Chapter 5.

  • Page 11: Chapter2 Hardware Installation

    4. Connect the supplied Power Adapter. 5. Please make sure the LAN LED is light on. NOTE1: The wireless interface of FPS-1100DG is “Disabled” by default. If you want to activate wireless interface, please refer to section 7.10 Wireless to know more information for how to setup wireless interface.

  • Page 12: Chapter3 Windows Peer-To-Peer Network

    C h a p t e r 3 Wi n d o w s P e e r - t o - P e e r N e t w o r k 3.1 System Architecture Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable for most medium and small network environments.
  • Page 13 2. Click on “Administrator Installation” hyper link to initiate the installation. Or you can click the “Start” button and choose “Run”. (Suppose “E” is your CD-ROM drive). When the dialog box appears, enter “E:\Utility\Setup.exe” and press enter key. You will see the dialog box as below.
  • Page 14 5. Specify the program folder name where the program icons will be add to. Please click “Next” to start installation. 6. For a while, the program will finish installing utility and driver you selected. Thus far you have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print Server. The “Choose Print Server”...
  • Page 15 7. “Name the print Server”, you can assign an easy to memorize name for management. But note that, this name will be the “Identifier” for the Peer-to-Peer Printing.
  • Page 16 NOTE: If this is the first time you configure the print server, the “Print Server Name” will be the same as the “Device Name” printed at the bottom of the print server. ou can either assign a fixed IP address for the print server or select “Don’t change” for configure it later by the configuration utility.
  • Page 17 10. The “Setup complete” window is displayed to indicate that the Administrator Installation procedure is finished. Please click “Finish”. After the installation, you have completed the following tasks, Install utility and driver to the administrator’s PC Configure the print server (including the print server name and network protocol) Add the network port of the print server to the administrator’s PC...
  • Page 18 Now, you have completed the administrator’s setup for most of the network environment. You can then perform the “Client Installation” procedure (section 3.4) on all client’s sides of the network. If you want to print from this administrator’s PC to the print server, all you need to do is to perform Windows’...

  • Page 19: Administrator Utilities

    If you have just installed another new FPS-1100DG on the network, you must run this program first. This program will search for new FPS-1100DG and allow you to add the new network printer port into client’s computer conveniently. Perform the standard Add Printer...
  • Page 20 Please be aware that Network Ports Quick Setup Utility can only detect and configure all FPS-1100DG 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) FPS-1100DG.

  • Page 21: Client Installation And Setup

    Step3. Press OK to add the remote printer port into your computer’s printer ports. 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. 3.

  • Page 22: Chapter4 Windows Nt/2000 Network

    C h a p t e r 4 Wi n d o w s N T / 2 0 0 0 N e t w o r k 4.1 System Architecture In Windows network environment, other than the Peer-to-Peer network printing architecture described in the previous chapter, we also offer the Server-Based Printing architecture for Windows NT/2000 server.

  • Page 23: User Installation And Setup

    If this is your first time installing print server, please install the administrator software on Windows NT/2000 server first. Refer to section 3.2 for installation instructions. If your network has already installed a working print server and your Windows NT/2000 server has not yet installed the PTPP driver, please install the client software.

  • Page 24: Chapter5 Netware Network

    C h a p t e r 5 N e t Wa r e N e t w o r k 5.1 System Architecture We implement NetWare print sharing functionality into the print server itself, thus allowing one or more printers attached by a print server to be connected to the network. Embedded print server, which emulates the “queue management functionality”...

  • Page 25: Installation With Pconsole

    2. Refer to section 7.7 and use print server configuration utility, to configure print server attach to NetWare server print queue. Print server will get the print job from the print queue and print. 5.2.1 Installation with Pconsole Run the NetWare PCONSOLE program. Change the current file server, if necessary, using the Change Current File Server menu selection.
  • Page 26 11. Select Printer Configuration. 12. Select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2), and press Enter, then select Parallel 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 27: Chapter6 Unix System Network

    C h a p t e r 6 U N I X S y s t e m N e t w o r k 6.1 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 28: Verify Print Server's Ip Address

    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, you may need to rebuild the NIS map with the BOOTP services before doing the following BOOTP configuration. To rebuild the NIS map, please refer to your system documentation.

  • Page 29: Configure Remote Lpd Printing On The Host

    6.5 Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host The procedure you use to configure your Unix host(s) to allow printing to your network remote print server varies between different varieties of Unix. The procedure below can be used for Unix variants that are related to BSD Unix, such as SunOS or Linux.
  • Page 30 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. The rp= entry should correspond to the port name of the remote printer.

  • Page 31: Chapter7 Configuration Utility

    Windows Administrator Utility installation procedure - refer to section 3.2 and 3.3. This utility provides the most complete management and configuration functions on FPS-1100DG. 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.

  • Page 32: Search For All Available Print Server

    7.2 Search for All Available Print Server 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 33: Status Of Print Server

    7.3 Status of Print Server Click “Status” icon on the tool bar, the status of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window. The information of the print server displayed are MAC ID, 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 34: Setting Up The Print Server

    7.4 Setting up the Print Server Click “Setup” icon on the tool bar, the setup items of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window. You can modify all settings of the print server here. When you first time into one the configure options, system will ask you enter Password.

  • Page 35: General Configuration

    7.5 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”, “User Name” and “Password” here. Printer Server Name: 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 36: Tcp/Ip Configuration

    7.6 TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon and the TCP/IP configuration window will pop-up. If there is a DHCP Server in your LAN. You can configure the print server to automatically obtain an IP address from DHCP server. Or you can manually specify a static IP address to this print server .

  • Page 37: Netware Configuration

    7.7 Netware Configuration Double Click “NetWare” icon and the NetWare configuration window will pop-up. This print server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method. The print server periodically polls the 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.

  • Page 38: Appletalk Configuration

    7.8 AppleTalk Configuration Double Click “AppleTalk” icon and the AppleTalk configuration window will pop-up. AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The print server can use these parameters to join the AppleTalk network and share the printer to other AppleTalk workstations.

  • Page 39: System Configuration

    7.9 System Configuration Double Click “System” icon and the System configuration window will pop-up. In the System configuration page, you can select to enable/disable each printing protocol, assign name for each printer port of this print server and upgrade the new firmware for this print server. Upgrade Firmware: You can use this “Upgrade”...

  • Page 40: Wireless

    7.10 Wireless Due to wireless interface is “Disable” in default. If you want to use the print server through wireless interface, please set up the print server through Ethernet firstly and make sure your wireless LAN settings are correct and Wireless Function is set to “Auto”. After configure the wireless LAN settings, unplug the Ethernet cable and power off/on the print server, then you can start to use the print server via wireless interface.
  • Page 41 2. When you are select first option to continue, you will see this screen for scan the wireless network. Please select the wireless device that you want to connect and click “Next”. If you don’t have see the wireless device that you would like to connected, please click “Scan” to search again.
  • Page 42 WEP Security Mode:...
  • Page 43 You can select “64 bit” or “128 bit” length and “Hexdecimal” or “ASCII” format for the encryption key. Longer key length can provide stronger security but worth communication performance. Enter four key values by following the rules below and select one key as the default key. PassPhrase –...
  • Page 44 WPA-shared key Security Mode: Wh en “WPA-sh are d ke y”, a lso na me d “W PA- PSK” r eq uires users to s elect th e ad vance d encr yp tion me th ods , i.e . T KIP an d en te r a s e t of s h a r e d k e y.
  • Page 45 4. You can select to let the print server automatically obtain IP settings from DHCP Server 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” to confirm the IP Address configuration.

  • Page 46: Ad-Hoc Mode

    7.10.2 Ad-Hoc Mode 1. If you are select “Ad-Hoc Mode” and click “Next” in section 7.11, you will see the dialog box below. 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.
  • Page 47 3. This print server supports WEP and WPA-PSK security mode. If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network, you have to select “WEP(ASCII)” or “WEP(HEX)”. If you want to use WPA-PSK, you have to select “WPA-shared key”. The wireless security setting should be the same with other wireless devices in the same network.
  • Page 48 You can select “64 bit” or “128 bit” length and “Hexdecimal” or “ASCII” format for the encryption key. Longer key length can provide stronger security but worth communication performance. Enter four key values by following the rules below and select one key as the default key. PassPhrase –...
  • Page 49 WPA-shared key Security Mode: Wh en “WPA-sh are d ke y”, a lso na me d “W PA- PSK” r eq uires users to s elect th e ad vance d encr yp tion me th ods , i.e . T KIP an d en te r a s e t of s h a r e d k e y.
  • Page 50 4. You can select to let the print server automatically obtain IP settings from DHCP Server 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” to confirm the IP Address configuration.

  • Page 51: Snmp

    7.11 SNMP Do ub le C l ick “ SNMP” icon and the SN MP c on fig ura tio n w ind ow will pop up . Contact: You can enter the print server administrator’s contact information here. This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool.
  • Page 52 Double click the “Print Server Wizard”, the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup process from next page. Step 1: Setup the Print Server Name and SMB Group Name of this print server and the name of each printer port. Please refer to section 7.5 and 7.9 for detail information. Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol.
  • Page 53 Step 3: Setup the IP of this print server. Please refer to section 7.6 for detail information. Step 4: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information.
  • Page 54 Step 5: Setup the AppleTalk printing. Please refer to section 7.8 for detail information. Step 6. Setup Status Summary. This screen will show you the total settings of this print server. If those settings are correct, please press “Set” for next step to save the settings or press “Cancel” or “<<Back”...

  • Page 55: Report

    Step 10. Please press “Yes” to save the settings. 7.13 Report Click “Report” icon on the tool bar, the Report window will pop-up. The report list basic information of all available print servers on the network. The information includes Device Name, MAC ID, Model Type, Firmware Version and Status of print server.

  • Page 56: Chapter8 Web Management

    C h a p t e r 8 We b M a n a g e m e n t 8.1 Introduction Print server can be configured and managed on the web browser. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet when this print server has an legal IP address. Administrator can easily configure and manage print server’s various main functions in web browsers.

  • Page 57: Device Status

    8.3 Device Status 8.3.1 System In this page, it will show you all the system information such as “Device Name”, “Print Server Name”, “Model Type”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Address” and other information. 8.3.2 Printer This page will display the information of printers connected to all printer ports.

  • Page 58: Tcp/Ip

    8.3.3 TCP/IP This page lists all TCP/IP Settings, include “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway”. 8.3.4 SMB This page will show the SMB Group Name.

  • Page 59: Snmp

    8.3.5 SNMP This page will show the SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location. If the settings are empty, this page will show you the settings “Disabled”. 8.3.6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings, include “Polling Time”, “Use Bindery Mode”, “Name of the File Server”...

  • Page 60: Appletalk

    8.3.7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings, include “AppleTalk Zone Name” and “Printer Type of printers connected to all print ports”. 8.4 Setup Wizard 8.4.1 System You also can configure the “Print Server Name”, “User Name” and “Password” here. Printer Server Name, the name of the print server. You can use this name to identify the print server when you are searching for the print server by the administration and client utilities.

  • Page 61: Advanced Settings

    Port Name: The name of the printer port. Each printer port has to be assigned a name. The printserver driver uses this name to access the printer port. 8.4.1.1 Advanced Settings You can enable/disable the printing protocols from the screen. To enable the function, please select “Enabled”;...
  • Page 62 to an active network by an Ethernet cable. If the print server is connected to an active network by Ethernet cable when starting up, the print server will run in Ethernet mode. If the print server is not connected to an active network by Ethernet cable when starting up, the print server will run in wireless LAN mode.
  • Page 63 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 64 Key Format - You may select to use ASCII Characters (alphanumeric format) or Hexadecimal digits (in the "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" range) to be the WEP Key. Key Length - You can choose “64-bit” to use WEP with 64-bit key length encryption or choose “128-bit”...

  • Page 65: Site Survey

    WPA-shared key Security Mode: Wh en “WPA-sh are d ke y”, a lso na me d “W PA- PSK” r eq uires users to s elect th e ad vance d encr yp tion me th ods , i.e . T KIP an d en te r a s e t of s h a r e d k e y.

  • Page 66: Tcp/Ip

    8.4.3 TCP/IP You can configure the print server to automatically obtain an IP addddress from your LAN DHCP server or manually specify a static IP address. If you need the print server to automatically get an IP from DHCP server, select “Enable Obtain TCP/IP settings automatically”.

  • Page 67: Smb

    8.4.4 SMB You may Enable/Disable the SMB Printing protocl of this print server. When this setting enable, you have to enter the SMB Group Name, you should set this name as your network PCs assigned. Then the PCs can find this printserver in Network Neighbor and attach to this print server as a Network Printer.

  • Page 68: Netware

    This printserver has support SNMP protocol for users use SNMP management tool to monitor from a remote site. You can Enable this protocol and set the SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location in this page. SNMP System Contact: Text Field - Name of the contact person. SNMP System Location: Text Field - Location of the contact person.

  • Page 69: Appletalk

    8.4.7 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. When you select “Enable”, you have to setup the “Zone Name” and “Printer Type” for each printer port of this print server.

  • Page 70: System Tools

    8.5 System Tools 8.5.1 Load Default You can restore print server to factory default settings in this screen. All of your previous configuration will be cleared. 8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware You can upgrade new firmware for this print server in this screen. Click “Browse...” button to locate the new firmware and then click “OK”, the firmware will be updated in several minutes.

  • Page 71: Chapter9 Ipp Printing

    C h a p t e r 9 I P P P r i n t i n g 9.1 Introduction IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) Printing provides a convenient way of remote printing service by TCP/IP. The print server can support IPP printing by default. It is needless to do any setting. Any PC that can support IPP printing, for example Windows 2000/XP, can directly uses the print server by IP.
  • Page 72 “http://192.168.12.13/lpt1:631”. After entering the URL of print server, click “Next >” and complete the configurations afterwards to access the shared printer.

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