Planet FPS-3121G User Manual

802.11g

Multi-Port Print Server

FPS-3121G

User’s Manual

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User’s Manual for PLANET 802.11g Multi-Port Print Server Model: FPS-3121G Rev: 1.0 (November. 2005) Part No. EM-FPS3121G

Table of Contents

CHAPTER1 INTRODUCTION............................................5

1.1 Product Introduction...............................................................................................................................5

1.2 Product Package....................................................................................................................................5

1.3 Contents of the User’s Manual...............................................................................................................5

1.4 Printing Function....................................................................................................................................6

1.5 LED Indicators .......................................................................................................................................6

1.6 Specification ..........................................................................................................................................7

CHAPTER2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION ...................... 8

CHAPTER3 WINDOWS PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK .....9

3.1 System Architecture...............................................................................................................................9

3.2 Administrator Installation and Setup ......................................................................................................9

3.3 Administrator Utilities...........................................................................................................................16

3.4 Client Installation and Setup ................................................................................................................17

CHAPTER4 WINDOWS NETWORK ...............................19

4.1 System Architecture.............................................................................................................................19

4.2 Windows Server Installation and Setup ...............................................................................................19

4.3 User Installation and Setup..................................................................................................................19

CHAPTER5 NETWARE NETWORK ...............................20

5.1 System Architecture.............................................................................................................................20

5.2 NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x Installation & Setup..............................................................................................20

5.2.1 Installation with Pconsole.......................................................................................................21

CHAPTER6 UNIX SYSTEM NETWORK.........................23

6.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................23

6.2 Enable Print Server’s TCP/IP Support.................................................................................................23

6.3 Setup Print Server’s IP Address...........................................................................................................23

6.3.1 DHCP.....................................................................................................................................23

6.3.2 BOOTP...................................................................................................................................23

6.4 Verify Print Server’s IP Address...........................................................................................................24

6.5 Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host .......................................................................................25

CHAPTER7 CONFIGURATION UTILITY........................27

7.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................27

7.2 Search – Search for All Available Print Server.....................................................................................28

7.3 Status - Status of Print Server .............................................................................................................29

7.4 Setting up the Print Server...................................................................................................................30

7.5 General Configuration..........................................................................................................................31

7.6 TCP/IP Configuration...........................................................................................................................32

7.7 Netware Configuration.........................................................................................................................33

7.8 AppleTalk Configuration.......................................................................................................................34

7.9 Rendezvous Configuration...................................................................................................................35

7.9.1 Rendezvous Uses in MAC OS 10.2........................................................................................35

7.10 System Configuration..........................................................................................................................38

7.11 Wireless...............................................................................................................................................39

7.11.1 Infrastructure Mode................................................................................................................39

7.11.2 Ad-Hoc Mode.........................................................................................................................45

7.12 Wizard..................................................................................................................................................50

7.13 Report..................................................................................................................................................57

CHAPTER8 WEB MANAGEMENT..................................58

8.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................58

8.2 Web Management of Print Server........................................................................................................58

8.2.1 Login ......................................................................................................................................58

8.3 Device Status.......................................................................................................................................59

8.3.1 System...................................................................................................................................59

8.3.2 Printer.....................................................................................................................................60

8.3.3 TCP/IP....................................................................................................................................60

8.3.4 SMB.......................................................................................................................................61

8.3.5 SNMP.....................................................................................................................................61

8.3.6 NetWare.................................................................................................................................62

8.3.7 AppleTalk...............................................................................................................................62

8.3.8 Rendezvous...........................................................................................................................63

8.4 Setup Wizard .......................................................................................................................................63

8.4.1 System...................................................................................................................................63

8.4.2 Wireless .................................................................................................................................64

8.4.3 TCP/IP....................................................................................................................................67

8.4.4 SMB.......................................................................................................................................68

8.4.5 SNMP.....................................................................................................................................69

8.4.6 NetWare.................................................................................................................................69

8.4.7 AppleTalk...............................................................................................................................70

8.4.8 Rendezvous...........................................................................................................................71

8.5 System Tools.......................................................................................................................................71

8.5.1 Load Default...........................................................................................................................71

8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware .................................................................................................................72

8.5.3 Backup Setting.......................................................................................................................72

CHAPTER9 IPP PRINTING.............................................73

9.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................73

9.2 System Setup ......................................................................................................................................73

9.2.1 Print Server Side....................................................................................................................73

9.2.2 Client Side..............................................................................................................................73

Chapter1 Introduction

1.1 Product Introduction

Thank you for purchasing and using our FPS-3121G. 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.

This print server provides wired and wireless for users to connect all the exist network. Ttwo USB

2.0 ports and one parallel port all the printers in the market. This print server supports TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and AppleTalk 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/XP/Server 2003, NetWare, Unix/Linux, MAC OS, 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 this print server.

In the following chapters, we will introduce in detail the printing features, installation methods, and system configuration for different network environments.

1.2 Product Package

This package contains the following components: 1 x FPS-3121G 1 x Power Adapter 1 x Driver and User’s Manual CD 1 x Quick Installation Guide 1 x Dipole Antenna

1.3 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 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 print server’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 Print Server’s IPP Printing function and setup procedure. The IPP Printing provides a convenient way to print documents across the Internet by the IPP protocol.

1.4 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, SMB) IPP Printing NetWare Bindery Printing AppleTalk

1.5 LED Indicators

LED Color Description

PWR Green WLAN Green

P1 Green

P2 Green

P3 Green

LAN

Green

Orange

Off: Printserver is not power on On: Printserver is working Off: Wireless interface is disable Blink: Wireless interface is enable Off: Parallel port is no connected On: Parallel port is connected Blink: Data transferring Off: USB printer is not connected On: USB printer is connected Blink: Data transferring Off: USB printer is not connected On: USB printer is connected Blink: Data transferring Off: LAN port is not connected On: LAN port is connect to 100Mbps device Blink: Data transferring Off: LAN port is not connected On: LAN is connect to 10Mbps device Blink: Data transferring

1.6 Specification

Model FPS-3121G

Wired Interface

Media Interface 1 x RJ-45 UTP Standards IEEE802.3, 10Base-T; IEEE802.3u, 100Base-TX; Auto-MDI/MDI-X Cabling Category 5/5e or above, 2-pair Wireless Interface Frequency 2.4 to 2.4835 GHz (ISM Band) Standards IEEE802.11b; IEEE802.11g Encryption 64/128-Bit WEP, WPA-PSK

Data Rate Output Power 18 dBm (max)

General Printer Ports 1 x Parallel Port + 2 x USB 2.0 Management Tools Server Manager (Windows Application), Web-based management (HTTP) Dimension 187 * 106 * 30 mm Weight 280g Power Supply 12VDC, 1A Emission FCC / CE

802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11Mbps

802.11g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54Mbps

Chapter2 Hardware Installation

1. Make sure the Print Server and printer are power OFF.

2. Connect printer to the suitable printer port on Print Server.

3. Connect the LAN cable to the RJ-45 port of the Print Server.

4. Connect the other end of the LAN cable to a switch or your PC directly.

5. Power on Print Server and printer.

6. Please make sure the Print Server LAN LED is light on.

NOTE1: MUST use the power adapter shipped with the print server, do NOT use any other

power adapter from any sources.

NOTE2: The wireless interface of FPS-3121G is “Disabled” by default. If you want to

activate wireless interface, please refer to section 7.11 Wireless to know more information for how to setup wireless interface.

NOTE3: 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.

NOTE4: Please be sure your printer is not a host-base printer. This kind of printer must be

connected to a PC directly, so they cannot work with Print Server. You may check the printer specification or the GDI Printer List in our bundle CD to know this printer can work with FPS-3121G or not.

Chapter3 Windows Peer-to-Peer

Network

3.1 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.

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 print server 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 the printing port 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/XP/Server2003 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 Drivers and User’s Manual CD into the CD-ROM drive to initiate the autorun program.

Once completed a menu screen will appear.

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. Please click “Next” to continue.

3. Specify the destination folder where the utility will be installed. Click “Next”.

4. Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided

components in administrator installation. Please click “Next”.

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” dialog box will be displayed as following. Please select the print server and click “Next”.

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.

NOTE: If this is the first time you configure the print server, the “Print Server Name (Alias Name)” will be the same as the “Device Name” printed at the bottom of the print server.

8. In the system default, IPX and NetBEUI are enabled. But the Peer-to-Peer printing is not support those

protocols, so it will show those protocols are not supported.

About the TCP/IP, you can either assign a fixed IP address for the print server or configure it later by the configuration utility. Please click “Next”.

9. Configuration summary will display in this screen. Now, you have completed the “Print Server Setup”. By clicking “Finish”, your system will perform “Add network port” of the print server to your PC.

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.

z Install utility and driver to the administrator’s PC z Configure the print server (including the print server name and IP address) 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 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’ 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 4 utilities in print server’s Program folder.

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.

If you have just installed another new print server on the network, you must run this program first. 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, and you can print directly to the printer through the newly installed print server.

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 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) print servers.

2. Remote Ports 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. However, please note that this function only supports TCP/IP network protocol.

Please follow the procedures described below:

Step1. Run Remote Ports utility. Then press Add button.

Step2. Enter the print server’s name, IP address and select the ports you want to add.

Step3. Press OK to add the remote printer port. Then you can find the Print Server port

had been add 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. Print Server Configuration Complete print server management tool (see chapter 7 - Print Server Configuration).

4. Uninstall Assistant for removing all installed administrator software.

3.4 Client Installation and Setup

The Client Installation can be performed on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP and Serve2003 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.

The installation is the same as Administrator Installation, besides the step 4. Please unselect “Utility” option and press “Next” to continue.

Clients just need to install Peer-To-Peer driver, so it is no need to install the Configuration Utility to the client PC.

Chapter4 Windows Network

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/XP/2003 server. Only one Windows NT/2000/XP or 2003 Server is required to have Windows PTP (Peer-to-Peer) 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)

4.2 Windows Server Installation and Setup

Please follow the procedures described below for installation and construct a peer-to-peer connection (PTP) between Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server and Print Server.

Step1.

Please install the administrator software on Windows Server. You may refer to section 3.2 for installation instructions.

Step2.

Please add/configure the Peer-to-Peer Printing of the Windows network printer and verify that you can print from Windows Server to the print server by the installed PTP driver.

Step3.

Share the Windows Server’s printer to the network by performing the standard Windows printer sharing process.

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 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.

Chapter5 NetW are Network

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” of NetWare print server, PSERVER program running on the NetWare server. A user first prints a job at a workstation, the job is routed to a NetWare server, the NetWare server stores the job in a print queue, then the print server gets the print job from the queue to printers.

Print Queue

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Compare with NetWare printing functionality, the advantages of embedding the NetWare network printing functionality in the print server include:

z Installation is easier and quicker z Network management is easier z Printing performance is enhanced z Relieve NetWare file server’s burden z Relieve the need of a workstation running the remote printer utility z 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 server.

Netware Server

Print Server

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 our configuration utility.

Please note that, you need to install the IPX protocol before the following procedure.

1. Run NetWare’s PCONSOLE program to create a NetWare print server and print queue with the appropriate names.

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

1. Run the NetWare PCONSOLE program.

2. Change the current file server, if necessary, using the Change Current File Server menu selection.

3. Choose the Print Queue Information menu selection.

4. Press the Insert key to add a new print queue.

Type in a print queue name, such as “PQ” or “Q1”.

6. 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.

7. Select Print Server Information.

8. Press the Insert key to add a new NetWare print server object. The print server name can be identical to the PSxxxxxx name printed on the label of the print server.

9. Press Enter to select the newly created print server.

10. Select Print Server Configuration.

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.

13. Press Escape, and answer Yes to the Save Changes question.

14. Select Queues Serviced by Printer, then select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2) and press Enter.

15. Press Insert key 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.

16. Repeatedly press Escape to exit the PCONSOLE program.

17. After setup the NetWare server. Please write down those settings and refer to section 7.7 to enter the settings of print server.

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. You should be able to redirect printing to your print server using a CAPTURE command such as the one shown in the previous section.

Chapter6 UNIX System Network

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.

This chapter explains how to configure the print server for TCP/IP operation, and how to modify configuration files on your Unix system to allow printing to the print server. The configuration examples in this manual follow the syntax for BSD based Unix systems. Please refer to the related system documentation for the correct syntax of your systems.

To configure the print server for LPD printing, perform the procedures below:

1. Enable Print Server’s TCP/IP Support.

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.

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 configure the print server to enable TCP/IP support using the configuration program or PSETUP program in our CD-ROM included with the Print server.

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 the IP address on the various Unix systems using any one of the following methods:

1. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

2. BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol)

The print server will use the last three methods to obtain its IP address automatically if its IP address is configured as Auto (0.0.0.0).

6.3.1 DHCP

There are many Unix systems that support DHCP protocol, and the procedures to configure the DHCP server database are different. This manual does not describe the DHCP server configuration on the Unix systems. It is highly recommended that the DHCP server should be located on the same network as the print server.

6.3.2 BOOTP

If you have the BOOTP daemon, bootpd, running on your UNIX system that is accessible by the print server, you can use the BOOTP protocol to set up the IP address of the print server. We

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