Print Server User’s Manual Version: 1.0 (March, 2006)
5 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Windows NT ServerNetWare ServerWindows 98Windows NTWorkstationWindows 2000Unix Print ServerPrint Server Be
95 8.5 Getting DHCP Status The DHCP status page can be used to display the print server’s IP address and the DHCP Server information.
96 8.6 Changing Device Configuration The Device Cfg page allows you to set: Alias name, an alternate name by which the print server can be c
97 POST diagnostic printout, which determines whether or not a diagnostic printout should be printed to the attached printer. Save to Print Ser
98 8.7 Setting IP Address The IP Cfg page allows you to configure the IP address where the print server is to be located. The print server will
99 8.8 Configuring DHCP Parameters The print server can be configured as DHCP server to provide dynamic IP addresses assignment. The DHCP Cfg pag
100 TCP/IP parameters automatically; otherwise you will configure the following parameters: Starting IP: specifies the starting IP address for ass
101 8.9 Configuring E-Mail Printing Using print server’s email printing function, the client user on the Internet can email the printing file to
102 Mail Account, the account of the mailbox in the mail server. Mail Password, the password of the mail account. Print Mail Header, which d
103 8.10 Configuring SMB All PC should join the same group before they can use this print server by SMB protocol. SMB Group Name, the name of S
104 8.11 Configuring AppleTalk AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The print server can use these parameters to
6 Common operating systems for clients are classified as following: Windows 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Our print server system provides PTPP (Peer-
105 8.12 Configuring SNMP Parameters The SNMP Cfg page allows you to configure the SNMP parameters of this print server. These information can be b
106 8.13 System Utilities You can perform several tasks from this Utilities page, as described below: The Software reset: which determines whe
107 to make sure it is operating properly, or to isolate any installation problems. The Do it button: do the action specified in the above.
108 8.14 Firmware Upgrading The page allows you to upgrade firmware of the print server. Click “Do it” button and enter the password, the system w
109 9. Email Printing
110 9.1 Introduction Email Printing provides a new way of printing service. After installation, Windows will establish a new Printer Driver which
111 9.2 System Requirement 9.2.1 Print Server Side Print server must be connected to an Email server that provides an Email account for the
112 9.3 System Setup 9.3.1 Print Server Side Step1. Execute Print Server Configuration Utility. Step2. Enter into Setup and double click Mai
113 9.3.2 Client User Side At first, please confirm that the client computer has installed and setup the TCP/IP protocol correctly. Email Printin
114 3. Click “Next” and choose a installation path or use the default, 4. Click “Next” and assign a program folder name,
7 Windows 98PTPPPrint ServerMIS-2P1P2P3P1Print ServerMIS-1 UNIX / Linux UNIX (include HP/UX, SCO Unix, SunOS, Solaris, Unixware DECUnix, IBM AIX and
115 5. Click “Next” and the system will install the “Email Printing Driver”. After the installation is completed, you need to configure the Printi
116 Port Name: The Printer Port Name for Email Printing. It will be used when you execute the “Add Printer” E-Mail Address: The email address servic
117 9.3.2.3 Send an Email with an attached document to the email account serviced by the Print Server For a client user who wants to print a doc
118 10. IPP Printing
119 10.1 Introduction IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) Printing provides a convenient way of remote printing service by TCP/IP. The print server ca
120 10.2 System Setup 10.2.1 Print Server Side It is needless to do any setting on the print server side. Make sure the print server has corre
121 Step3. The “Add Printer Wizard” is displayed. Click “Next”. Step4. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer”. Cl
122 Step5. Select “Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network” and enter the URL of print server. The URL format is “http:/
123 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
124 Step8. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.
8 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server Windows NT ServerNetWare ServerWindows 98Windows NTWorkstationWindows 2000Unix Print Server
125 11. LPR Setting in MAC OS LPR Printing (Line Printer Remote technology) allows Macintosh computers to connect to printers via TCP/IP. LPR Pr
126 Step3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”. Step4. Click “Add” to add the new Print Server through TCP/IP.
127 Step5. Enter the “Printer Type”, “Printer Address” and “Queue Name” and select the “Printer Model” to setup the Print Server. Click “Add
128 Step6. The Print Server is installed completely. You can see it in the “Printer List”. Step7. You can print a file to check whether the Pr
129 12. Windows XP SP2 Setup In Windows XP SP2, XP SP2’s firewall would block the unknown communications. This print server has allowed the communi
130 Step3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.
131 Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”.
132 Step5. Click “Browse” to add a new program. Step6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the sy
133 Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”.
134 Step8. Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting. The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program.
9 1.4 Network Printing Environment Common network environment are classified as following: Windows Peer-to-Peer Network The client’s PTPP driver
10 NetWare Network (see below)
11 1.5 Contents of the User’s Manual Chapter 2 explains print server’s hardware installation and configuration. It is strongly recommended for yo
12 Chapter 11 introduces how to setup LPR printing in MAC OS. Chapter 12 In Windows XP SP2, you may not find any print server listed on the “Availabl
13 1.6 Firmware & Printing Function The print server provides a complete network printing solution. The feature set is listed below: PTPP (
14 2. Hardware Installation 1. Unpack the print server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. 2. Connect
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15 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network
16 3.1 System Architecture Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable for most medium and small network
17 2. Client Installation and Configuration (refer to section 3 for more detailed information). Client users must install Windows PTPP driver (Peer
18 3.2 Administrator Installation and Setup The Administrator Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 with the same u
19 3.The “Print Server Utilities” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 4.Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “Ch
20 5.Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue.
21 6.The system will start to install the utilities automatically. 7.You have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print Se
22 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
23 8.Specify a recognizable name for the Print Server and click “Next”. 9.Specify the IP Address for the Print Server manually or click “Next” to ke
24 10.The configuration summary is displayed in the window. Now, you have completed the Print Server setup. Click “Finish” and your system will add n
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25 11.The Administrator Installation procedure is totally completed. Click “Finish”. The Administrator Installation Program have executed the instal
26 3.3 Administrator Utilities After Administrator Installation is completed, there will be four utilities in print server’s Program folder. Ne
27 3.4 Client Installation and Setup The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 with the same user interface.
28 3.The “Print Server Utilities” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 4.Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “Br
29 5.The system will start to install the utilities automatically.
30 6.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
31 7.The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”. After the installation, you have completed the following tasks: Install all u
32 3.5 Client Utilities After Client Installation is completed, there will be three tools in print server’s Program folder. Network Ports Quick
33 During the client’s installation procedure, the system will automatically search for all print servers on the network, and add them into the print
34 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
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35 Step1. Run Remote Ports Utility. Clicks “Add” to add a remote print port. Step2. Enter print server’s name, IP address, select used port
36 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
37 3.6 Windows Add Printer Procedure After adding a “Network Port” of the print server to your PC by Administrator or Client Installation Program
38 Step4. Select “Local printer attached to this computer” and make sure that “Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer” is not se
39 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
40 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 P
41 4. Windows NT/2000/2003 Network
42 4.1 System Architecture In Windows network environment, other than the Peer-to-Peer network printing architecture described in the previous ch
43 4.2 Windows NT/2000/2003 Server Installation and Setup Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer-to-p
44 Step3. Share the above server’s printer to the network by performing the standard Windows printer sharing process.
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45 4.3 User Installation and Setup After server side’s installation is completed, client side will be able to find the server’s shared printer i
46 5. NetWare Network
47 5.1 System Architecture We implemented NetWare printer sharing functionality into the print server itself, thus allowing one or more printers
48 Printing performance is enhanced. Relieve NetWare file server’s burden. Relieve the need of a workstation running the remote printer utility
49 5.2 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
50 6. You have now successfully created the print queue that your print server will serve. Press the Escape key until the Available Options main m
51 13. Press Escape, and answer Yes to the Save Changes question. 14. Select Queues Serviced by Printer, then select Printer 0 (or Prin
52 16. Repeatedly press Escape to exit the PCONSOLE program. 17. Reset the print server to have the changes take effect. NOTE: If the print s
53 6. UNIX System Network
54 6.1 Introduction The print server is available for TCP/IP printing by Unix LPD (Line Printer Daemon) protocol. The LPD protocol originated wit
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55 6.2 Enable Print Server’s TCP/IP Support The default configuration of the print server is with TCP/IP support enabled. Anyway, you can configu
56 6.3 Setup Print Server’s IP Address The print server must have a unique IP address in order to be recognized by the network. You can set up th
57 (the Node ID is printed on the rear side of the print server) Assign IP address: 203.66.191.12 arp –s 203.66.191.12 00-00-B4-01-01-01 ping 203.66.
58 To rebuild the NIS map, please refer to your system documentation. To configure the IP address data for the BOOTP server, you will need to log in
59 Node ID: 0000B4010101 (this implies Ethernet address is 0000B4010101), IP address: 203.66.191.12 The entry for this print server in the /etc/bootp
60 Where the Ethernet address of the print server is the Node ID located on the print server. 4. If your system uses Network Information Services (N
61 6.4 Verify Print Server’s IP Address To verify that your print server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command: pin
62 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 pr
63 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
64 The print server should now be available for printing from your Unix host.
2 1.1 Product Introduction Thank you for purchasing and using our print server. This print server allows your printer to become a shared device o
65 6.6 Print a Test Page To print to the print server, you can use the lpr command: lpr -Pprinter-name file ... or, you can use the lp command on
66 7. Configuration Utility
67 7.1 Introduction This chapter introduces print server’s system configuration utility in Windows environment. This utility is automatically ins
68 SNMP Configuration: SNMP Information Configuration. SMB: Configure the SMB Group Name. System Configuration: Print Server Network Ability Se
69 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 b
70 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
71 You can restart the print server by pressing the “Reboot” button .
72 7.4 Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon on the tool bar, the setup items of the current selected print server will be showed on the r
74 7.5 General Configuration Double Click “General” icon and the General configuration window will pop-up. You can see basic print server inform
3 1.2 Product Package This package contains the following components: One Print Server One Power Adapter One Quick Installation Guide One
75 7.6 TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” icon and the TCP/IP configuration window will pop-up. You can configure the print server to
76 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”. Yo
77 7.7 Netware Print Server Configuration Double Click “NetWare” icon and the NetWare configuration window will pop-up. This print server suppor
78 7.8 AppleTalk Configuration Double Click “AppleTalk” icon and the AppleTalk configuration window will pop-up. AppleTalk is a data communicati
79 7.9 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will pop up. Contact: You can enter the print server admini
80 7.10 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
81 7.11 System Configuration Double Click “System” icon and the System configuration window will pop-up. In the System configuration page, you c
82 Note that before you upgrade the firmware please make sure that the IP Address settings of the MFP Server are in the same network as your computer
83 7.12 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
84 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 infor
4 1.3 Network Printing Architecture This section illustrates how print server functions and operates on the network. Before you install and use p
85 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 pr
86 Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to section 7.7 for detail information. Step 5: Click “Save” to finish setting.
87 7.13 Report Click “Report” icon on the tool bar, the Report window will pop up. The report lists basic information of all available print ser
88 8. Web Management
89 8.1 Introduction Print server can be configured and managed on the Web. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet, administrator can easily
90 The browser will group the configuration items into the following topics, Print Server Info: General Information of print server. Printer St
91 In order to protect your print server, you can get all information pages at any time you like, but you can not save the configuration pages before
92 8.2 Getting Print Server Information Each time you run browser to connect to a print server, you will get this print server information page i
93 8.3 Getting Printer Status The Printer status page can be used to display the status of attached printer(s) for each port.
94 8.4 Getting NetWare Information The NetWare status page displays the NetWare connection information of the print server.
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