Edimax Technology PS-1101, PS-1001, PS-3101, PS-1201, PS-3101P User Manual

Print Server

User’s Manual

1. INTRODUCTION.............................................................4

1.1 Product Introduction..........................................................4

1.2 Product Models.................................................................5

1.3 Product Package...............................................................6

1.4 Network Printing Architecture ...........................................7

1.5 Network Printing Environment ........................................11

1.6 Contents of the User’s Manual........................................14

1.7 Firmware & Printing Function..........................................15

2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION......................................17

3. WINDOWS PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK.....................18

3.1 System Architecture........................................................18

3.2 Administrator Installation and Setup ...............................20

3.3 Administrator Utilities ......................................................28

3.4 Client Installation and Setup ...........................................30

3.5 Client Utilities ..................................................................35

4. WINDOWS NT/2000 NETWORK..................................40

4.1 System Architecture........................................................40

4.2 Windows NT/2000 Server Installation and Setup............41

4.3 User Installation and Setup.............................................42

5. NETWARE NETWORK.................................................44

5.1 System Architecture........................................................44

5.2 NetWare 3.x Installation & Setup....................................47

5.3 NetWare 4.x/5.x Installation & Setup ..............................60

6. UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK...........................................70

6.1 Introduction .....................................................................70

6.2 Enable PrintSir’s TCP/IP Support ...................................71

6.3 Setup PrintSir’s IP Address.............................................71

6.4 Verify PrintSir’s IP Address.............................................75

6.5 Configure Remote lpd Printing on the Host.....................75

6.6 Print a Test Page ............................................................77

7. CONFIGURATION UTILITY..........................................79

7.1 Introduction .....................................................................79

7.2 General - General Information of PrintSir........................80

7.3 PrintSir Status - PrintSir Network Status.........................81

7.4 Printer Status - Attached Printer Status..........................81

7.5 IP Cfg - IP Address Configuration...................................82

7.6 NW PS Cfg - NetWare Print Server Configuration..........82

7.7 NW RP Cfg - NetWare Remote Printer Configuration.....84

7.8 NW Information - NetWare Printing Summary................84

7.9 PrintSir Cfg - PrintSir Network Ability Setting..................85

7.10 Restore Default - Restore to Default.............................86

7.11 Upgrade - Firmware Upgrade / Update.........................86

7.12 DHCP Cfg - DHCP Server Configure............................87

7.13 DHCP Information - DHCP Information.........................89

7.14 Mail Print Cfg - Email Printing Setting...........................90

7.15 SNMP Cfg - SNMP Parameter Setting..........................91

8. WEB MANAGEMENT...................................................93

8.1 Introduction .....................................................................93

8.2 WebDESK Utility.............................................................93

8.3 Web Management of PrintSir..........................................95

9. EMAIL PRINTING .......................................................106

9.1 Introduction ...................................................................106

9.2 System Requirement ....................................................106

9.3 System Setup................................................................107

1. Introduction

1.1 Product Introduction

Thank you for purchasing and using Edimax's PrintSir series print server. PrintSir 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.

PrintSir provides a network port (10Mbps or 10/100Mbps Ethernet) and one or three printer's parallel ports. Please refer to the information of various types of PrintSir in the following sections for more detailed explanation.

PrintSir supports IPX, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI protocols. It is the best network printing solutions for various common network operating systems, such as Windows 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer Printing, Windows NT/2000, NetWare, Unix/Linux, etc.

With the help of Installation Wizard, you can easily and instantly complete the settings for your printing environment, and start enjoying the fantastic features provided by PrintSir.

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 PrintSir quickly, please refer to the Quick Installation Guide that comes along with this PrintSir.

1.2 Product Models

Model PS-901 PS-1001 PS-1101 PS-1201 PS-3101 PS-3101P Hardware Size Pocket Pocket Palmtop Pocket Desktop Desktop Direct Attached Yes Yes No Yes No No Number of Printer Ports 1 1 1 1 3 3 Printer Connector Centronics Centronics DB25 Centronics DB25 DB25 Network Speed 10M 10M 10/100M 10/100M 10/100M 10/100M Network Connector UTP UTP/BNC UTP UTP UTP UTP Bi-Directional No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Flash Memory Size 512K 512K 512K 512K 512K 512K Network LED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Status LED Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Firmware Upgrade Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Power-On-Self-Test Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Network Protocol Support IPX/SPX Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes TCP/IP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NetBEUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Network Environment Windows Peer-to-Peer Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Windows Server-Based Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NetWare Bindary Mode Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NetWare NDS Mode Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NetWare Remote Printer Yes Yes Yes Yes No No TCP/IP Remote Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unix LPR Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Administration Windows Configuration Utility Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Web Management Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Web Management Utility Web Web Web Web Web Web

SNMP Protocol Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Printer Port Management Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IP Assignment ARP & Ping Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

DHCP Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DHCP Client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

BOOTP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes RARP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DOS Utility Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Others

Email Printing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Direct Print Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Logical Printer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Language CD-ROM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

English Chinese

1.3 Product Package

This package contains the following components:

 PrintSir Print Server x 1  Power Adapter x 1  CD x 1  Quick Installation Guide x 1

1.4 Network Printing Architecture

This section illustrates how PrintSir functions and operates on the network. Before you install and use PrintSir, it is strongly suggested 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” in next section.

This section will first introduce the role every component plays in the network-printing environment.

z PrintSir Print Server z Client User z Network Server (optional)

Network Printing Environment

Network Server

NetWare Server

Windows NT Server

Workstation

Client User

Unix PrintSir

Windows 2000

Windows 98Windows NT

Print Server

Detailed examples will then be illustrated through actual network environment.

1.4.1 Print Server Network Functions

Print Server

Windows NT

Workstation

Unix

Windows 2000

Windows 98

PrintSir

NetWare Server

Windows NT Server

Because PrintSir supports IPX, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI network protocols, any networked computer can directly print to the print server from any of its installed protocol.

* TCP/IP * IPX * NetBEUI

Unix

TCP/IP

NetWare Server

IPX

Windows NT Server

TCP/IP

IPX

NetBEUI

Windows NT

Windows 2000

Windows 98

Workstation

1.4.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients

Client User

Windows 98

PrintSir

NetWare Server

Windows NT Server

Unix

Windows 2000

Windows NT

Workstation

Common operating systems for clients are classified as following:

z Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000

 Our print server system provides PTPP

(Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 users. PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing) supports IPX, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI protocols. While printing after installation, PTPP will automatically select the proper transport protocol to connect to the print server depending on the protocols installed in each computer (client computer may only have IPX or TCP/IP installed).

Application

PTPP

* TCP/IP

IPX

TCP/IP

IPX

NetBEUI

Application

PTPP

TCP/IP

Windows 98

NetBEUI

Windows 2000

NetBEUI

* IPX * NetBEUI

PTPP

TCP/IP

 In the client installation procedure, after

PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing Driver) is installed into Windows, the system will

PTPP

automatically (manual configuration is also allowed) search through all the PrintSir print servers on the network, and then add their printing ports into Windows’ printing port. (See below)

Windows 98

PrintSir

MIS-2

PrintSir

MIS-1

z 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 PrintSir.

1.4.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server

Network Server

Windows NT

Workstation

Unix

Windows 2000

Windows 98

PrintSir

NetWare Server

Windows NT Server

Common network servers are classified as following:

z Windows NT/2000

 Our print server system provides PTPP

(Peer-to-Peer Printing) driver and utilities for Windows NT/2000. After PTPP is installed, the server can directly print to PrintSir. Adding this printing function into Windows NT/2000 Server allows print queue, user authority management, and many other advanced features to be used.

z NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x

 In NetWare environment, PrintSir offers

various printing modes like print queue, remote printer, etc.

1.5 Network Printing Environment

Common network environment are classified as following:

z Windows Peer-to-Peer Network

Since both the PrintSir and client’s PTPP driver fully support IPX, TCP/IP, and NetBEUI protocols, when printing, the PTPP driver will automatically search and match up the protocol for both client and print server’s sides.

Unix

TCP/IP

* TCP/IP * IPX * NetBEUI

NetWare Server

IPX

Windows NT Server

PTPP

TCP/IP

PTPP

NetBEUI

Windows NT

Workstation

Windows 2000

PTPP

IPX

Windows 98

PTPP

TCP/IP

z Windows NT/2000 Network

Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows NT/2000. Adding this printing function into Windows NT/2000 Server allows print queue, user authority management, and many other advanced features to be used.

Queue

* TCP/IP

Windows 98

TCP/IP

IPX

Windows NT Server

PTPP

TCP/IP

* IPX * NetBEUI

Windows 2000

z NetWare Network (see below)

Queue

* TCP/IP

Windows 98

IPX / IP

IPX

NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x

IPX

* IPX * NetBEUI

Windows 2000

1.6 Contents of the User’s Manual

Chapter 2 explains PrintSir’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. NetWare Network

Chapter 6. UNIX System Network

You may select the appropriate chapters and sections to read depending on your network printing’s requirement.

Chapter 7 and chapter 8 introduce PrintSir’s management and configuration utilities on Windows and Web Browser’s environment respectively. You may select the appropriate management utility according to the administrator’s computer platform.

Chapter 9 introduces PrintSir’s Email Printing function and setup procedure. The Email Printing provides a new way to print documents across the Internet by the Email.

1.7 Firmware & Printing Function

In order to provide a complete network printing

solution, PrintSir supports Multiple Feature Sets function for users to select the appropriate Printing Feature Set to use depending on individual’s printing requirement. Currently, the system provides two Feature Sets for users to choose:

 Standard Feature Set

z PTPP (Peer-to-Peer-Printing)

 TCP/IP (LPR)  NetBEUI  IPX

z Email Printing z NetWare Bindary Printing

 NetWare Enhancement Feature Set

z TCP/IP Printing (LPR) z NetWare Bindary Printing z NetWare NDS Printing z NetWare Remote Printer

(Single Port PrintSir Only)

All feature sets are included in PrintSir CD’s firmware file.

<CD Driver>\FLASHROM\<Model Name>\PSxxROM.BIN

Please refer to section 7.11 for instructions on how to

select and setup the Feature Set.

For example, if you need to use NetWare NDS Printing,

then you must change the system’s default Standard Feature Set to the NetWare Enhancement Feature Set. In the meantime, PrintSir will support NetWare NDS / Remote Printer and other printing functions; however, it will not support NetBEUI, Email Printing and other Standard Feature Set’s special functions.

2. Hardware Installation

1. Unpack the print server package and check all the items listed

in section 1.3.

2. Connect the print server to the printer you want to share on

the network

z For direct attach models, plug the print server directly

to the printer’s centronics port.

z For palmtop/desktop models, connect the printer to

print server by the standard printer cable.

3. Connect the power adapter to the print server.

4. The print server will perform the Power-On-Self-Test (POST)

after it is powered on. The Status LED will flash 6 times to indicate that the print server is ready.

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 PrintSir and a few

printers, it is recommend that you power on the PrintSir before the printer.

3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network

3.1 System Architecture

PrintSir 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.

* TCP/IP * IPX * NetBEUI

Windows NT Server

PTPP

TCP/IP

PTPP

NetBEUI

Windows NT

Workstation

Windows 2000

PTPP

IPX

PTPP

TCP/IP

Windows 98

Installation procedure is separated into following two parts:

1. Administrator Installation and Setup (refer to

section 2 for more detailed information).

System administrators must:

z Install administrator’s utilities into his/her

computer.

z Configure PrintSir from administrator’s

configuration utility.

2. 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 all printing ports (P1/P2/P3) of the print servers into Windows’ printing port (refer to Network Printing Architecture in section 1.4 for more detailed information).

3.2 Administrator Installation and Setup

The Administrator Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 with the same user interface. Before the installation, please verify that your network protocol is installed on your PC (TCP/IP, IPX and/or NetBEUI). It will be helpful in your installation process.

1. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into

your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically by Windows. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory.

2. The "Installation Manager" will be displayed on the screen as

following.

3. Click “Administrator Installation” and the “Utilities Setup”

window will be displayed.

4. Click “Next”, and specify the destination folder where the

utilities will be installed.

5. Click “Next”, and select the components you want to install. It

is highly recommended to install all provided components.

6. Click “Next”, and specify the p rogram folder where the program

icons will be added.

7. Click “Next” to start installation.

8. In a while, the program will finish installing all the utilities and

drivers you selected. Thus far you have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print Server. Click “Next”, and the “Choose Print Server” dialog box will be displayed as following.

NOTE: If this is the first time you configure the print server, the

“Print Server Name” is the same as the “Device Name” printed at the rear side of the print server.

9. Click “Next”, and the “Name t he print Server” dialog box will

be displayed as following,

You can assign a meaningful name for the management consideration. But note that, this name will be the “Identifier” for the Peer-to-Peer Printing (PTPP).

10. Click “Next” to configure network protocol in the following

screen.

In the system default, IPX and NetBEUI protocols are enabled.

About the TCP/IP, you can either (1) assign a fixed IP address for the print server or (2) configure it later by the configuration utility.

11. Click “Next”, and the configuration summary is displayed in

the window. Now, you have completed the “Print Server

Setup”. By clicking “Next”, your system will perform “Add network port” of the print server to your PC.

12. Finally, the “Installation complete” window is displayed to

indicate that the Administrator Installation procedure is finished.

After the installation, you have completed the following tasks,

z Install all utilities and drivers to the

administrator’s PC.

z Configure the print server (including the print

server name and network protocol)

z Add the network port of the print server to the

administrator’s PC.

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 clients’ 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’ standard “Add Printer” procedure as described below.

Step1. Click “Start” button, choose Setting => Printers

Step2. Double click “Add New Printer”

Step3. Select “Local printer” => click “Next”.

Step4. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and model, then

click “Next”.

Step5. Choose the “Print Server’s Network Port” which was

created by the administrator installation process and click “Next”.

Step6. Complete the rest of the questions to finish the

network printer setup.

3.3 Administrator Utilities

After Administrator Installation is completed, there

will be six utilities in PrintSir’s Program folder.

z Network Ports Quick Setup

 Local printer port management tool (see

section 3.5).

z Remote Ports

 Remote printer port management tool (see

section 3.5).

z NetWare Quick Setup

 NetWare quick installation software (see

chapter 5).

z PrintSir Configuration

 Complete PrintSir manag ement tool (see

chapter 7 – PrintSir Configuration).

z Uninstall

 Assistant for removing all installed

administrator software.

z WebDESK Administrator

 Web based management tool (see chapter

8 – WebDESK Configuration).

3.4 Client Installation and Setup

The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 with the same user interface. Before the installation procedure, please confirm that your PC has connected to the network and installed at least one network protocol.

1. Insert the CD shipped along with the print server into

your CD-ROM drive. The Autorun.exe program should be executed automatically by Windows. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory.

2. The "Installation Manager" will be displayed on the

screen as following.

3. Click “Client Installation”, and the “Utilities Setup”

window will be displayed.

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