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10/100 Mbps Direct Attached
Print Server
FPS-1101
User’s Manual
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Copyright (C) 2006 PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. The products and programs described in this User’s Manual are licensed products of PLANET Technology, This User’s Manual contains proprietary information protected by copyright, and this User’s Manual and all accompanying hardware, software, and documentation are copyrighted. No part of this User’s Manual may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form by any mean
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................................... 5 PRODUCT OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 COMPONENTS AND FEATURES ...........................................................................................................
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GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................... 66 POWER RELATED PROBLEMS........................................................................................................................................ 66 PRINT PORT RELATED PROBLEMS................................................................................................................................66 WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/
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Introduction Product Overview The external print servers enhance capability by letting you place your printers at convenient locations directly on the Ethernet network, and by increasing network printer performance and management. Please note that the print server does not support printing with host-based printers, e.g. CAPT, GDI, and PPA. Network Management The print servers support the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which remote printer management and a warning. A sta
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LED Indicators LED State Indication Blinking for POST When power switched on, the Status indicator will flash five Status (Yellow) times, and then on. 100Mbps On (Green) LAN Port has a valid network connection at 100Mbps. 10Mbps On (Yellow) LAN Port has a valid network connection at 10Mbps. Before you start, you should prepare the following items: One Windows-based computer with print server setup CD One printer with a Parallel port One printer cable Hardware Installation
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To printer Reset Button Network Environment Wired Network with Print Server: Print Server HUB Printer Computer Computer Computer 7
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2. Print Server Installation Preparation To meet users’ network printing needs in today’s heterogeneous and multiple protocol networking environments, the print server supports industrial standard protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI and AppleTalk. This means that the print server supports the most popular network operating systems today, including NetWare, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, UNIX systems and Macintosh computer. As such, there might be several ways to deploy the
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Windows Printing via the internet to Allows saving distribution of HQ NT/2000/XP/2003 Internet Printing Protocol- hardcopy document over Internet, enabled print server replacing fax, mail Comment Configuration solution Table has many installations way to setup Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, NetWare, UNIX / Linux system and Mac computer. Firstly, we introduce PSAdmin utility, HP Web JetAdmin program and Internet Printing Protocol solution. Then we will discuss Embedded Web
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3. Software Installation The PSAdmin is a proprietary Windows-based management program that can assist you in configuring and managing your print server in NetWare environments. The program can be installed from the setup CD of print server. Installing the PSAdmin and Print Server’s Driver 1. To enable network communication with print server, your computer must have a proper IP address, e.g. 192.168.0.100 (the print server’s default IP is 192.168.0.10) 2. Insert the setup CD int
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3. Click Next, the wizard will automatically discover the print server. 4. From the Select A Print Sever screen, select the print server that you want to configure and click Next. 5. On the Change Settings screen, select No or Yes: 11
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Click No if you want the print server to keep using the default IP address and keep the default settings: IP address: 192.168.0.10 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Click Yes if you want change IP address to the print server, and then click Next. Note: The IP address of print server must be within the same subnet as your network adapter. 6. In the setup wizard, select an already configured printer from the list, click Next, Next and then Finish to complete the installation. or Sel
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7. Click Add New Printer to launch Windows Add Printer Wizard. 8. Click Next and select Local Printer, make sure the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer check box is NOT checked. Then click Next. 14
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9. Make sure the Use the following port radio-button is clicked and select LPT1: (recommended Printer Port) from the pull-down list. Then click Next. 10. Select Manufacturer and Printer from the lists of printer’s driver. Then click Next. 15
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11. If you already have the printer’s driver installed, you will be asked whether to keep it or to replace it. Click Next. Supply a name for the printer and choose whether you want to make it your default printer. Then click Next. 12. Then, choose whether you want to share the printer with other network user, print a test page (please select No.), etc. Select the appropriate radio-button and click Next and Finish. 13. In the setup wizard, finish the installation by highlighting the ins
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15. Right-click, select Properties -> Ports and verify that the print server’s port appears. 16. Go to General; click Print Test Page to verify the configuration. 17. Done. Note: 17
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If you want to install more print servers, start setup wizard from your Windows Start menu: start -> All Programs -> Network Print Server -> PSWizard and repeat the installation procedure. Using PSAdmin After the software of setup CD is successfully installed, starts PSAdmin utility from your Windows Start menu: start -> All Programs -> Network Print Server -> PSAdmin. The screen will then appear as follow picture. All print server(s) feature Novell NetWare function on the LAN wil
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TCP/IP Wizard 1. Click Wizard button just like a picture .and select TCP/IP Wizard. 2 Select “Obtain an IP address from DHCP server”. If there is a DHCP server on your network. This option allows the print server to obtain IP-related settings automatically from your DHCP server. This setting, by default, is disabled. If you would like to manually specify an IP address to the device, please skip to the following step. 3 In the IP Address option, type an IP address for the print
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7 Done NetWare Wizard 1. Log into your NetWare file server as a Supervisor (Admin.) or equivalent. 2. Click Wizard button just like a picture .and select NetWare Wizard, as follow picture. 3. Select the NetWare File Server to which the print server device will be attached. 4. Type in a Print server. 5. Type in a Print Queue Names. Note: Each print queue corresponds to each print port of the print server. 6. Click OK. 7. Done. 8. From your NetWare client computer,
