SMC Networks SMC2004 User Manual

EZ USB Networking
Cable

User Guide

SMC2004USB-Cable

V1.0

Welcome.

Congratulations on purchasing the SMC EZ Connect USB Cable.
Very shortly you will have all of the benefits of having your own
small network. The SMC EZ Connect USB cable has been designed
to be easy to install and use. The SMC EZ Connect USB cable
provides a quick and easy solution to network up to 17 USB
computers via your USB ports without having to add any network
interface cards.

The SMC EZ Connect USB cable is suitable for small offices, home
offices, mobile users and network gamers.

Package Contents:

1 x SMC EZ Connect USB Cable

1 x 3M USB cable

1 x Quick Installation Guide

1 x SMC CDRom. (Contains long version of manual and
installation software)

Product Features:

USB specification revision 1.1 compliant

USB host to host communication, Single cable solution for
network communication, construct USB Network up to 17 PCs

Resources sharing such as Printers, CD-ROMs, Modems,
Scanners, etc.

Support TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX protocols

Standard Windows Explorer user interface

Data transfer rate: Up to 5M bits/sec

System Requirements:

IBM PC 486DX4-100 MHz or higher or compatible system

Available USB port

Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows CE or Windows ME

Important things to check before you start the installation:

1 – Your computer’s USB port is functioning properly

2 – Do not connect the SMC EZ Connect USB cable to any
computer before you have installed the software.

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5. A window will appear asking if you want to set the IP address

for the USB Network Adapter. Click NO to for the IP address to
be set up automatically. Only set your own IP address if you are
an experienced network administrator or if you are connecting
to an Ethernet network. (See Step 4 for more details)

6. During the installations, the system may ask you to insert
system disk(i.e Win98 CD-ROM) please insert your system disk
your CD-ROM drive then click OK.

7. If the system cannot find any file, please direct to your CD-ROM
drive and click OK.

8. The system will ask you to reboot the computer when the
installation is complete. Please remove the driver from your
CD-ROM drive, connect the EZ Connect USB cable and restart
your computer.

Now go through the same process on the other computer(s).

Your USB network environment is set up automatically when the
installation is complete. Now you can see all the computers in
your network in Network Neighborhood and you can share
programs, files and other peripheral devices through the standard
Windows interfaces, e.g. Windows Explorer and Network
Neighborhood.

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Step 1

Install the software on your computers –

1. Switch on the computers that you will connecting the SMC EZ
Connect USB Cable and make sure that the USB ports are
enabled and working properly.

2. Insert the SMC CD-Rom into the CD-ROM drive and find the
installation program. (This should be in directory D:\SMC.exe)

3. The InstallShield Wizard will guide you through step-by-step to
complete the installation process.

4. The InstallShield Wizard will pop-up a Question Window. If the

computer you installed is not a bridge computer or main
computer. (please refer to Step 4 – Installaing the SMC EZ
Connect USB Bridge Driver) you must click “No”, but if you
are on the bridge computer, you have to click ”Yes”. Because
this “SMC EZ Connect USB Bridge Protocal” must not be

installed on only one computer in the USB network.