Edimax-technology PS-1210Un User Manual

1. Introduction 1.1 Product Introduction Thank you for purchasing and using our print server. This print server allows your printer to become a sh

91 8.3 Device Status 8.3.1 System System Information includes “Device Name”, “Print Server Name”, “Model Type”, “Firmware Version”, “MAC Ad

92 8.3.2 Printer This page lists information of printers connected to all printer ports.

93 8.3.3 TCP/IP This page lists all TCP/IP settings of the print server including “IP Address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Gateway”. It also lists DHCP

94 8.3.4 SMB This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the print server.

95 8.3.5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP settings of the print server. It includes the settings of “SNMP System Contact” and “SNMP System Locatio

96 8.3.6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings, including “Polling Time”, “Use Bindery Mode”, “Name of the File Server” and “Port Attached Q

97 8.3.7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings, including “AppleTalk Zone Name” and “Printer Type” of printers connected to all print po

98 8.4 Setup Wizard 8.4.1 System You can change the print server name and password of the print server from here. Print Server Name, the na

99 Password, enter the password you want to change to the print server. The password can be up to 7-digit alphanumeric format. The default password i

100 8.4.2 Wireless If you want to use the print server through wireless LAN, please set up the print server through Ethernet first and make sure

1.2 Package Contents This package contains the following components: a. One Print Server b. One Antenna (Only for PS-1206UWg & PS-1206PWg &

101 You can enable/disable the wireless function and set parameters that are used for the wireless stations to connect to this print server from here

102 Enable – Enable wireless function only, the print server’s wireless LAN will be always enabled and Ethernet will be always disabled. Disable – D

103 8.4.2.2 Encryption This print server supports WEP and WPA-PSK security mode. If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless networ

104 Key Length – You can choose “64-bit” to use WEP with 64-bit key length encryption or choose “128-bit” to use WEP with 128-bit key length encrypti

105 WPA-PSK or WPA-NONE Security Mode: “WPA-shared key” (for an infrastructure network) or “WPA-None” (enables WPA security for your ad hoc network)

106 WPA Pre-Shared Key – Enter 8 to 63 digits of ASCII format to be the key for the authentication within the network. When you finish configuring t

107 You can use this “Site Survey” function to search for available access points in you location. In the list is the information of all available ac

108 8.4.3 TCP/IP You can configure the print server to automatically get IP from DHCP server or manually specify static IP. The print server al

109 You can enable/disable or set auto for the print server’s DHCP server. The DHCP server is disabled by default. If the DHCP Server is enabled or s

110 You can enable/disable the SMB protocol from here. If SMB is enabled, enter the “SMB Group Name” to specify the SMB group that this print server

3 1.3 Network Printing Architecture This section illustrates how print server functions and operates on the network. Before you install and use pr

111 The print server supports SNMP configuration. If it is enabled, please set up the following parameters. SNMP System Contact: You can enter the pr

112 This print server supports NetWare Bindery Printing method. The print server periodically polls the NetWare server printer queues for printing jo

113 8.4.7 AppleTalk AppleTalk is a data communication protocol often used by Macintoshes. The print server can use these parameters to join the

114 AppleTalk Zone Name: Print server has to join zones of AppleTalk before it can be shared to other workstations. Only workstations in the same zon

115 8.5 System Tools 8.5.1 Load Default You can use this page to restore the factory default settings. All of your previous setup will be c

116 8.5.2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser You can upgrade new firmware for this print server in this page. Click “Browse” to select the new firmw

117 9. IPP Printing 9.1 Introduction IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) Printing provides a convenient way of remote printing service by TCP/IP. Th

118 9.2.2 Client Side You only need to perform Window’s standard Add New Printer procedure. Step1. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and select “P

119 Step4. Select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer”. Click “Next”.

120 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://

4 1.3.1 Print Server Network Functions Windows NT ServerNetWare ServerWindows 98Windows NTWorkstationWindows 2000Unix Print ServerPrint Server Bec

121 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 i

122 Step8. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. The information of the printer is displayed in the windows. Click “Finish”.

10. LPR Printing 10.1 Introduction LPR Printing (Line Printer Remote technology) allows users to connect to printers via TCP/IP for printing shari

124 10.2 Standard LPR Settings in Windows XP To configure the LPR setting in Windows XP, please follow the steps below. The LPR setup procedures i

125 4. Select “Local Printer attached to this computer” and click “Next”. 5. Choose “Create a new port” and “Standard TCP/IP Port”. Click “Next”.

126 6. Please make sure that the Print Server and the Printer have turned on and connected to the network correctly before you continue. Click “Next”

127 8. Select “Custom” and click “Settings”. When you have finished the settings at step 9, click “Next” to continue.

128 9. Select “LPR” and enter “lpt1” in the “Queue Name”, click “OK”. By default the queue name of the Print Server is “lpt1”.

129 10. Click “Finish”. 11. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click “Next”. If your printer is not in the list, click

130 12. Choose to set the print whether as a default printer or not. Click “Next”. 13. You have added the network printer to the PC successfully. Th

1.3.2 Network Printing Functions for Clients Common operating systems for clients are classified as following: Windows 98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vi

10.3 Standard LPR Settings in Windows Vista / 7 To configure the LPR setting in Windows Vista, please follow the steps below. 1 Click “Start”,

132 4. Choose “Create a new port” and select “Standard TCP/IP Port”. Click “Next”. 5. Enter the IP Address of the Print Server in the “Hostname or I

133 6. Select “Custom” and click “Settings”. When you have finished the settings at step 7, click “Next” to continue.

134 7. Select “LPR” and enter “lpt1” in the “Queue Name”, click “OK”. By default the queue name of the Print Server is “lpt1”.

135 8. Select the printer manufacturer and the printer model and click “Next”. If your printer is not in the list, click “Have Disk…” to install the

136 10. The printer drivers are being installed. 11. It is recommended to print a test page. Click “Finish”.

137 12. The printer is added to “Printers” page, you have added the printer to your computer successfully. Now you can start to print from your compu

138 10.4 Standard LPR Settings in MAC OS 10.x 10.4.1 MAC 10.4.x To enable LPR Printing in Macintosh 10.4.x, please follow the procedures below.

139 10.4.2 MAC 10.3.x To enable LPR Printing in Macintosh 10.3.x, please follow the procedures below. 1. In the Desktop, click “System Preference

140 3. From the “Print & Fax” screen, click “Set Up Printers…”. 4. Click “Add” to add the new Print Server through TCP/IP.

6 In the client installation procedure, after PTPP (Peer-to-Peer Printing Driver) is installed into Windows, the system will automatically (manual co

141 5. Enter the “Printer Type”, “Printer Address” and “Queue Name” and select the “Printer Model” to setup the Print Server. Click “Add” to continue

142 6. The Print Server is installed completely. You can see it in the “Printer List”. 7. You can print a file to check whether the Print Server is

143 11. Windows XP SP2 Setup In Windows XP SP2, XP SP2’s firewall would block the unknown communications. This print server has allowed the communi

144 Step3. Select “Advanced” tab and click “Settings…”.

145 Step4. Select “Exceptions” tab and click “Add Program…”.

146 Step5. Click “Browse” to add a new program.

147 Step6. Open the “NPUtil” file from “C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities” (where C:\ is the system drive).

148 Step7. A new program “Network Ports Quick Setup” is displayed in the list, click “Ok”.

149 Step8. Click “Ok”. You have completed the setting. The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program.

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7 1.3.3 Network Printing Functions for Network Server Windows NT ServerNetWare ServerWindows 98Windows NTWorkstationWindows 2000Unix Print Server

8 1.4 Network Printing Environment Common network environment are classified as following: Windows Peer-to-Peer Network The client’s PTPP driver

9 Windows NT/2000/2003 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows NT/2000/2003. Adding this

10 1.5 Contents of the User’s Manual Chapter 2. explains print server’s hardware installation and configuration. It is strongly recommended for y

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11 Chapter 10. introduces Print Server’s LPR Printing function and Windows XP/Vista and MAC OS 10.x standard setup procedures. The LPR Printing (Line

12 2. Hardware Installation Unpack the print server package and verify that all the items listed in the section 1.2 are provided. Connect the prin

13 3. Windows Peer-to-Peer Network 3.1 System Architecture Print server supports Windows Peer-to-Peer network printing mode, which is suitable f

14 Installation procedure is separated into following two parts: 1. Administrator Installation and Setup (refer to section 2 for more detailed inf

3.2 EZMax Installation Wizard This wizard can be run in Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. The following procedures are operated in Windows XP. You can

16 3.3 Administrator Installation and Setup **Please find the utility manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory or download it from Edimax webis

17 2. The “Print Server Utilities” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 3. Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “

18 4. Select the components you want to install. It is highly recommended to install all provided components. Click “Next” to continue. 5. Click “In

19 6. The system will start to install the utilities automatically. 7. You have completed the installation phase and prepare to configure the Print

20 NOTE 1: If this is the first time you configure the

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21 9. Specify the IP Address for the Print Server manually or click “Next” to keep default IP Address, i.e. 192.168.2.2. 10. The configuration summ

22 11. The Administrator Installation procedure is totally completed. Click “Finish”. The Administrator Installation Program have executed the

23 3.3 Administrator Utilities 1. After Administrator Installation is completed, there will be four utilities in print server’s Program folder. N

3.4 Client Installation and Setup *Please find the utility manually from CD-ROM drive’s root directory or download it from Edimax website. If you ha

25 2. The “Print Server Utilities” window will be displayed. Click “Next”. 3. Click “Next” to install the utilities in the default folder or click “

26 4. Click “Install” 5. The system will start to install the utilities automatically.

27 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 o

28 7. The Client Installation procedure is completed. Click “Finish”. After the installation, you have completed the following tasks: Install all u

29 3.5 Client Utilities 1. After Client Installation is completed, there will be three tools in print server’s Program folder. Network Ports Quic

30 3.5.1 Network Ports Quick Setup Network Ports Quick Setup Utility offers a very simple method to add or remove print server’s printer port fro

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31 If you have just installed another new print server in the network, you must run this program first. This program will search for new print server

32 3.5.2 Remote Ports (Utility) 1. Remote Ports Utility offers a convenient way for you to manage and add printer port of the remote print server

33 Step3. The new remote print port is displayed as follows. In order to use the remote printing function, you will have to proceed with normal Add

3.6 Windows Add Printer Procedure After adding a “Network Port” of the print server to your PC by Administrator or Client Installation Program, you

35 5. Choose the suitable printer port which was created by the installation process and click “Next”. 6. Select the printer manufacturer and the pr

36 7. Name your printer and set the default printer, click “Next”. 8. The printer drivers are being installed.

37 9. It is recommended to print a test page. Click “Finish”. 10. The printer is added to “Printers” page, you have added the printer to your comput

38 3.6.2 Windows XP 1. The following “Add Printer” steps are running in Windows XP, the steps in other Operating Systems such as Windows 98SE/Me/

39 5. Select “Local printer attached to this computer” and make sure that “Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer” is not selected

40 7. Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click “Next”. If your printer is not in the list, click “Have Disk…” to instal

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41 9. Choose to print the test page or not. It is recommended to print a test page. Click “Next”. 10. You have added the printer to the PC successfu

42 4. Windows NT/2000/2003 Network 4.1 System Architecture In Windows network environment, other than the Peer-to-Peer network printing architecture

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 Step2. Please add/configure the Peer-to-Peer Printing of the Windows NT/2000/2003 network printer and verify that you can print from Windows NT/20

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 5.1 System Architecture We implement NetWare printer sharing functionality into the print server itself, thus allowing o

47 Compare with NetWare printing functionality, the advantages of embedding the NetWare network printing functionality in the print server include: 1

48 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 y

49 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

50 12. Select Printer 0 (or Printer 1, Printer 2), and press Enter, then select LPT1 (or LPT2, LPT3) in the Type field. If your print server is wit

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51 15. Press Insert and add your newly created print queue to the list of queues serviced by the printer. Enter a priority number for the queue se

52 6. UNIX System Network 6.1 Introduction The print server is available for TCP/IP printing by Unix LPD (Line Printer Daemon) protocol. The L

53 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

54 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 pr

55 Lines should be indented with tabs. Where hostname is the device name of a print server, the ht=1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet, the

56 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

57 1. Optionally, assign a name corresponding to the print server’s IP address. You can add this address to the /etc/hosts file, by adding a line s

58 Lines should be indented with tabs. More than one printer name can be used, with variants separated by vertical bars (name1|name2). The rm= entry

59 7. Configuration Utility 7.1 Introduction This chapter introduces print server’s system configuration utility in Windows environment. This

60 SNMP Configuration: SNMP Information Configuration. SMB: Configure the SMB Group Name. System Configuration: Print Server Network Ability Setting

C A T A L O G 1. Introduction...1 1.1 Product Introduction...

61 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

62 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 side

63 You can restart the print server by pressing the “Reboot” button . Setup the Print Server Click “Setup” icon on the tool bar, the setup item

64 General Configuration Double Click “General” icon and the General configuration window will pop-up. You can see basic print server informatio

65 User Name / Password is used to authenticate the administrator by the Web administration tool. TCP/IP Configuration Double Click “TCP/IP” ico

66 You can configure the print server to automatically get IP from DHCP server or manually specify static IP. The print server also has a built-in DH

67 Netware Print Server Configuration Double Click “NetWare” icon and the NetWare configuration window will pop-up. This print server supports Net

68 AppleTalk Configuration Double Click “AppleTalk” icon and the AppleTalk configuration window will pop-up. AppleTalk is a data communication pro

69 SNMP Configuration Double Click “SNMP” icon and the SNMP configuration window will pop up. Contact: You can enter the print server administrato

70 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 can u

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71 System Configuration Double Click “System” icon and the System configuration window will pop-up. In the System configuration page, you can sele

72 Note that before you upgrade the firmware please make sure that the IP Address settings of the print server are in the same network as your comput

73 Domain Country: The wireless channels are different from country to country. Generally, the channels are from 1 to 11 in USA and from 1 to 13 in E

74 Double Click “Wireless” icon and the wireless configuration window will pop-up. If you use access point to build up wireless network, you have to

75 Users can plug the Ethernet cable to the print server at the first, after configuring the print server features and wireless settings; they can un

76 In the Infrastructure mode, you have to let the print server associate with an access point. You let the print server scan for an available access

77 Ad Hoc Mode: In the Ad-Hoc mode, you can let the print server automatically associate with other wireless station or manually assign the SSID of

78 The list is the scanned active wireless stations. Select a wireless station in the list and click “Next”. If you cannot find the wireless station

79 This print server supports WEP and WPA-PSK security mode. If you want to use WEP encryption to protect your wireless network, you have to select

80 You can select “64 bit” or “128 bit” length and “Hexadecimal” or “ASCII” format for the encryption key. Longer key length can provide stronger se

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81 WPA-shared key or WPA-None Security Mode: “WPA-shared key” (for an infrastructure network) or “WPA-None” (enables WPA security for your ad hoc

82 TKIP – TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) changes the temporal key every 10,000 packets. This insures much greater security than the standard

83 Click “Save” to save the wireless configuration. Wizard

84 Click “Wizard” icon on the tool bar, the setup wizard item of the current selected print server will be showed on the right side of the window. D

85 Step 2: Select to enable required printing protocol. Please refer to section 7.11 for detail information. Step 3: Setup the IP of this print serv

86 Step 4: Setup the AppleTalk printing. Please refer to section 7.8 for detail information. Step 5: Setup the NetWare printing. Please refer to sec

87 Step 6: Select the Wireless Adapter mode and complete wireless LAN settings. The other procedures are the same with “Wireless” Setting in “Setup”

88 Report Click “Report” icon on the tool bar, the Report window will pop up. The report lists basic information of all available print servers

89 8. Web Management 8.1 Introduction Print server can be configured and managed on the Web. Through Local Area Network, or even Internet, adm

90 8.2 Login You may use any Web Browser to review the status or configure the settings of the print server. After entering the IP address of the