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, as stipulated by the United States Copyright Act of 1976. Trademarks All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Limited Warranty The software and reference material are provided "as are," without warranty as to their performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The
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a Password for Your Print Server 14 Changing Print Server Port Settings 16 Testing Your Print Server 19 SETTING UP NOVELL NETWARE 3.X PRINTING 21 Introduction to Novell NetWare Printing 21 Setting up as a NetWare Print Server 25 Setting up as a NetWare Remote Printer 27 ii About This Guide
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Client Workstations 63 MS-DOS/PC-DOS Workstations 66 Keeping the Print Queue on a Windows NT Server 67 SETTING UP APPLETALK PRINTING 70 Setting up the Print Server for AppleTalk Printing 70 Printing from MacOS Client Workstations 72 SETTING UP UNIX TCP/IP PRINTING 75 About This Guide iii
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101 Managing Print Servers 102 Resetting the Print Server 105 Upgrading the Print Server's Internal Firmware 106 TROUBLESHOOTING PRINT SERVER PROBLEMS 108 Using the EtherPort Admin Device Diagnostics Window 108 APPENDIX: TELNET INTERFACE ADMINISTRATION 111 Setting an IP Address without
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TCP/IP Settings 113 Changing Server Settings 116 Changing the Print Server Password 118 Changing Port Settings 119 Changing AppleTalk Settings 121 Displaying Configuration Information 122 Resetting the Print Server 123 Upgrading Print Server Firmware 125 INDEX 127 About This Guide v
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/IP, AppleTalk, or Microsoft network. This Guide also describes the telnet interface, which you can use to configure your print server without the use of a Windowsbased PC. What's Not Covered in This User's Guide This User's Guide concentrates on the software setup and management of your TE100-PS3
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set up your print server, configure it for printing from various network systems, and allow client workstations to use it to print documents. ♦ Part III covers daily administration tasks, how to troubleshoot problems with your print server, and how to use the telnet interface. 2 About This Guide
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Introduction This chapter introduces the TE100-PS3 EtherPort network print server's and the EtherPort Admin program's printing and administration features that you can use to set up and administer TE100-PS3 print server. Background on Print Servers Before
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number of users to share printers. When a workstation user prints a document, network software on the workstation takes a file of instructions for the printer and stores them in a print queue on the server. The server takes each job in the print queue and sends it to the printer, which is either
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Print Server Administration User's Guide This arrangement allows a large number of people to share printers, and makes it possible to centrally manage the printers and their print queues. This method has several disadvantages, however: ♦ It increases the load on the file server. ♦ The file server
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Remote print servers such as the TE100-PS3 multi-protocol network print servers make network printing more practical, because: ♦ Network print servers can be located anywhere on the network, making it easy to place printers near the people who will be using
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setting up Novell NetWare 3.x servers (and 4.x servers in Bindery Emulation mode). ♦ Allows the print server's internal software to be conveniently upgraded to a new version. In addition to EtherPort Admin server based administration, TE100-PS3 print server also support a telnet-based interface for
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Installing and Starting the EtherPort Admin Program space ♦ A Windows-compatible mouse or other pointing device ♦ An Ethernet network card with appropriate drivers (either NDIS or ODI) You should also check your computer's settings: 8 Installing and
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necessary to run the EtherPort Admin program on every workstation. Ordinary network stations will still be able to print to your TE100-PS3 print server. If you will only be using TCP/IP (UNIX) and/or AppleTalk protocols, you can use the telnet interface instead of the Windows-based EtherPort Admin
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 3. The Setup program will begin by copying some files and ask for your confirmation. Click the Next > button to continue. 4. The Setup program will then
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Print Server Administration User's Guide For Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.1x, or Windows NT shown below: Instructions for using EtherPort Admin to perform network print server "initial setup" tasks are found in the next chapter, Getting Started Setting up Your Print Server. For information
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a Name for Your Print Server Each TE100-PS3 network print server has a server name. When the print server is shipped from the factory, it has a default name of the form PS-xxxxxx, where xxxxxx represents the last six digits of the Ethernet address found on the print server's underside sticker. 12
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print server's name, 1. Select the print server in the EtherPort Admin main window's server name display (or extended server display). 2. Choose Server Device... from the Configuration menu, or press the Configure Server button in the toolbar. (If you have already assigned a password to the server
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User's Guide 4. Choose Save Configuration from the Configuration menu, or press the Save Configuration button on the toolbar. This will store the new settings into the print server and restart it. Your print server will now be accessible under the new name. Setting a Password for Your Print Server
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Save Configuration button on the toolbar. This will store the new settings into the print server and restart it. WARNING: Do not forget or lose your print server password. If you forget it, you will have to contact your service representative to change the password. Getting Started Setting up Your
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Changing Print Server Port Settings Your TE100-PS3 network print server provides a number of parallel and/or serial printer ports. For each port, you can determine: ♦ The name of the port ♦ A comment describing the port ♦ For
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 2. Choose Server Device... from the Configuration menu, or press the Configure Server button in the toolbar. (If you have assigned a password to the server, you will have to enter it at this point.) EtherPort Admin will display the Server Device Configuration
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Print Server Administration User's Guide language commands. PJL allows users to get feedback on the printer's status. If the printer connected to the port supports PJL, set this field to Yes. For serial ports, the following dialog will be displayed: The fields that can be changed are: ◊ Port Name
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Print Server Administration User's Guide ◊ XON/XOFF Flow Control Determines whether or not the print server should respond to software flow control requests from the printer. When software flow control is used, the printer will send an XOFF character (Control-S) to the print server when its buffer
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 2. Choose Print Test... in the Tools menu. EtherPort Admin will prompt you for which port you wish to test. NOTE: 3. Choose a port and click OK. The print server should print out a "TE100-PS3 print server Test Page." 4. Repeat this procedure for each
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Setting up Novell NetWare 3.x Printing This chapter explains how you can set up your TE100-PS3 print server so that clients of your Novell NetWare 3.x server can print to attached printers. This chapter also applies if any workstations on your network are
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Print Server Administration User's Guide The file server makes its queues available to print servers, which may be located: ♦ on the same server, ♦ on a different server, or ♦ in a stand-alone print server device such as the TE100-PS3 network print server. If a printer is directly attached to a
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Print Server Administration User's Guide The PSERVER.NLM program is the NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) that runs on the file server and scans print queues both on the file server where it is running, and optionally on other servers. When PSERVER.NLM detects a new job, it directs it to the proper
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Print Server Administration User's Guide printer. This method, however, introduces delays in printing, and the remote printer software may be incompatible with software used on the remote printer workstation. The TE100-PS3 print server acts as a NetWare print server, scanning the print queues on one
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's Guide NetWare file server to be more heavily loaded, and increases delays in network printing. Setting up as a NetWare Print Server This section describes how to configure your TE100-PS3 print server to act as a NetWare print server, and how to set up a print server port to serve a print queue
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Click on the port button corresponding to the port you want to serve the print queue. 5. Click on the name of the NetWare file server where you wish the print queue to be stored. (Clicking on the symbol to the left of the file server name will expand the
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print server and the NetWare server. The print server will restart itself and begin serving the specified print queue. If you created the print queue in step 6, you may need to assign queue operators and queue users to the print queue using EtherPort Admin or the NetWare PCONSOLE program. By default
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Configuration window, accessible by selecting the print server and choosing Server Device... from the Configuration window. 3. Make sure you have a NetWare print server created and running on your NetWare file server. Consult your NetWare documentation for instruction on how to do this. 4. Choose
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 8. Determine what printer numbers are available on the given print server, and enter an unused printer number in the Printer Number field. Printer numbers can range from 0 to 15. 9. Click OK, then choose Save Configuration from
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 1. From the Start menu, choose the Settings sub-menu, then the Printers item within the Next > button to continue. 4. Enter the network path for the NetWare file server, specifying which print queue you want to connect to. For 30 Setting up Novell NetWare
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Print Server Administration User's Guide instance, to use the printer serving the queue named Q-LJ5L on the NetWare file server named SERVER, enter: \\SERVER\Q-LJ5L As an alternative to entering the network path, you can also use the Browse... button to locate the file server and print queue. Press
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 7. Windows may ask you whether or not you wish to print a test page to make sure that the printer will work correctly. When the test page is done printing, you will be asked whether or not the test page printed. Windows NT 4.0 (and later) Client Workstations
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Enter the network path for the NetWare file server, specifying which print queue you want to connect to. For instance, to use the printer serving the queue named Q-LJ5L on the NetWare file server named SERVER, enter: \\SERVER\Q-LJ5L As an alternative to
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 6. At this point Windows will ask you to choose the correct printer driver for the printer. Choose your printer's make and model from the list, or use the driver disk included with the printer. When you have chosen the correct printer, click OK to continue.
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 2. In the Print Manager, choose Connect to Printer... from the Printer menu. 3. Enter the network path for the NetWare file server, specifying which print queue you want to connect to. For instance, to use the printer serving the queue named Q-LJ5L on the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Windows 3.x and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Workstations To access a NetWare 3.x printer queue from your Windows 3.x or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 workstation, 1. Double-click on the Print Manager icon found in the Main program group. 2. In the Print Manager
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 5. Click the Network... button to display the NetWare printer connections dialog. (If you are using Windows for Workgroups, you will also have to push the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Choose values for the options as follows: ♦ L=n Determines which local port will be redirected to the network print queue. L=1 corresponds to LPT1, L=2 corresponds to LPT2, and L=3 corresponds to LPT3. By default, LPT1 is captured. ♦ S=server Determines which
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Print Server Administration User's Guide To access the Queue Service Settings tab, 1. Choose Netware Protocol... from the EtherPort Admin Configuration menu, or click the Configure NetWare button in the toolbar. Click on the Queue Service Settings tab. 2. Click on the port number button
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Print Server Administration User's Guide requests a form that isn't currently loaded, it may be necessary for the printer operator to manually change forms before printing can continue. If the form type service is set to All Forms, then the print server ignores the job's form and immediately prints
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Setting up Novell NetWare 4.x Printing TE100-PS3 network print servers support both the Bindery server database used with NetWare 3.x networks, and the NetWare Directory Services (NDS) network-wide database used with NetWare 4.x networks. This chapter
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Print Server Administration User's Guide well as a local scale. NDS organizes objects not by file server, but by administrative domain. The Network Directory Services database stores "objects" in a tree structure. Branches in the tree represent different regional offices, divisions, departments, or
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 1. Start the NWADMIN program. Expand the tree to display the context in the tree where you want to place the print server, and select the context. 2. Choose Create... from the Object menu. Select the object class Print Queue and press OK. 3. Enter a name for
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 5. Enter a name for the printer object. The name should be the same as the print server's configured port name. Click Create to create the printer in your NDS context. 6. Double-click on the printer, then choose the Assignments tab. Click on
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User's Guide 7. Repeat from step 4 for each print server port you will be using. 8. Select the context again, and choose Create... from the Object menu. Choose the Print Server object type and press OK. Enter a name for the print server, which must be the same as the network print server's name
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 10.Start EtherPort Admin, select the print server, and choose NetWare Protocol... from the Configuration menu. Click on the NDS Print Server tab. 11.Select the NDS tree and enter the context where you created the print server object, then press OK. 12.
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Configuration window, accessible by selecting the print server and choosing Server Device... from the Configuration window. 3. Make sure you have a NetWare print server created and running on your NetWare file server. Consult your NetWare documentation for instruction on how to do this. 4. Choose
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 7. Enter the name of the context you will be using, and enter the name of the print server in that context. 8. Determine what printer numbers are available on the given print server, and enter an unused printer number in the Printer Number field. Printer
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Windows 95 Workstations Unless you are using the 32-bit NetWare requester from Novell, Windows 95 does not directly support NDS access. You can access NetWare 4.x printer queues using bindery emulation, as described on page 29 of this manual. Windows NT 4.0 (
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Locate the print queue you wish to attach to in the browser, and Wizard will ask you to choose the appropriate printer driver, and may ask you to insert your Windows NT installation diskettes to locate driver files. 7. When installation is complete, the Add
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Workstations To access a NetWare 4.x printer queue from your Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 workstation, 1. Double-click on the Print Manager icon found in the Main program group. 2. In the Print Manager
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. When the printer driver has been correctly installed, select the printer in the Installed Printers list and click the Connect... button. 5. when you are finished. 6. The printer should now be available for use. 52 Setting up Novell NetWare 4.x Printing
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Print Server Administration User's Guide MS-DOS/PC-DOS Workstations The use of the CAPTURE command on NetWare 4.x networks is the same as for NetWare 3.x networks. The CAPTURE command is described on page 37 of this manual, and in your NetWare documentation. Setting up Novell NetWare 4.x Printing
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network users with peer-to-peer network services. In addition to accessing files and printers on a central server, any workstation can share its file directories and printer ports, making them accessible to other workstations. TE100-PS3 network print servers are also capable of making attached
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Select the print server and choose Server Device... from the Configuration server has a workgroup name. The workgroup name determines what servers and resources will show up by default in lists of accessible resources. You should assign to the print server
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Network path names for printers on Microsoft Networking systems are of the form: \\computer name\printer name When the TE100-PS3 print server is used with Microsoft Networking, the Server Name (set from the Server Device Configuration window) is used for the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Windows 95 Client Workstations To allow your Windows 95 (or later) workstation to print over the network directly through your network print server, 1. From the Start menu, choose the Settings sub-menu, then the Printers item within it. Windows will display
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 5. Enter the network path for your TE100-PS3 network print server, specifying which port you want to connect to. For instance, to use the printer connected to the port named PS142634-P2 on the print server named PS-142634, enter: \\PS-142634\PS-142634-P2 As
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 7. Windows will ask for a name for the printer. Enter a name, or accept the default. Press Finish to complete the installation. Windows NT 4.0 (and later) Client Workstations To allow your Windows NT 4.0 (or later) workstation to print over the network
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Windows will start the Add Printer Wizard. 3. Choose the Network printer server selection and click the Next > button to continue. 4. Enter the network path for your TE100-PS3 network print server, specifying which port you want to connect to. For instance,
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 5. Windows will display the following message. Press OK to continue. 6. At this point Windows will ask you to choose the correct printer driver for the printer. Choose your printer's make and model from the list, or use the driver disk included with the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 1. Double-click on the Print Manager icon found in the Main program group. 2. In the Print Manager, choose Connect to Printer... from the Printer menu. 3. Enter the network path for the print server, specifying which printer port you want to connect to. For
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Server Administration User's Guide 5. Windows will ask you to choose the correct printer driver for the printer. Select a driver and press OK. 6. The printer should now be available for use. Windows for Workgroups Client Workstations To enable network printing to your TE100-PS3 network print server
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Select the printer in the Installed Printers list is made, all requests to print to that printer port will be redirected to the network printer. 7. Enter the network path for your TE100-PS3 network print server in the Path field, specifying which
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 8. Select the newly connected printer port in the Connect dialog window, and click OK. 9. Click Close to close the Printers dialog window. 10.The printer will now appear in the Print Manager window, and will be accessible from all Windows applications, as
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Print Server Administration User's Guide MS-DOS/PC-DOS Workstations To connect your MS-DOS/PC-DOS workstation using client software such as ♦ Microsoft LAN Manager client ♦ Microsoft NT Server client ♦ Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (DOS client) you will normally use the NET USE command. To
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Keeping the Print Queue on a Windows NT Server Because Microsoft Windows Networking is a peer-to-peer network, it is possible for clients workstations to connect directly to the TE100-PS3 network print server. However, because the print server's memory is
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Check the box for an unused local port on your server, usually LPT2 or LPT3. Click the Next > button to continue. 5. At this point Windows will ask you to choose the correct printer driver for the printer. Choose your printer's make and model from the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide NET USE LPT2 \\PS-142634\PS-142634-P1 You will need to execute this command every time the server is rebooted. You may wish to place it in a batch file, executed from the Startup program group. For a Windows NT 3.51 server, 1. Double-click on the Print
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Setting up AppleTalk Printing NOTE: The AppleTalk network protocol is used low-speed LocalTalk transport. Your TE100-PS3 network print server can be used for network printing to PostScript printers. You can print from any MacOS computer connected to
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Print Server Administration User's Guide choose Server Device... from the Configuration menu to display this window. 2. Choose AppleTalk Protocol... from the Configuration menu. 3. If your AppleTalk network is divided into AppleTalk zones, you will have to specify which zone the print server should
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the printer supports Level 1 print server. The print server will restart itself and begin serving print jobs. Printing from MacOS Client Workstations The exact procedure for selecting a PostScript printer connected to your TE100-PS3 print server may vary slightly, depending on what printer driver
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Print Server Administration User's Guide driver, included with recent versions of the MacOS operating system. To choose a printer connected to your TE100-PS3 print server as your MacOS workstation's default previously have not set this printer as the default, your computer will prompt you for a
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Print Server Administration User's Guide If you wish to access this setting in the future, you can use the Setup button in the Chooser window. 5. At this point the selected printer will become your computer's default printer. You may need to choose Page Setup... in any applications you might have
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Guide Setting up UNIX TCP/IP Printing TE100-PS3 network print servers can provide print services to systems using the lpr/lpd network printing protocol. Most UNIX systems are capable of supporting lpd. This chapter explains how to use EtherPort Admin to configure the print server for TCP/IP printing
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 2. Choose TCP/IP Protocol... from the Configuration menu. 3. Configure the print server's IP address, local network subnet mask, and default gateway. 4. Press OK, then choose Save Configuration from the Configuration menu (or press the Save Configuration
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for managing large networks from central management consoles. TE100-PS3 network print servers support the SNMP Management Information Base known as MIB-II, which collects basic statistics on the print server's basic TCP/IP and Ethernet networking operations. SNMP (version 1) implements a rudimentary
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or when an SNMP request is made using an unknown community name. The print server allows traps to be routed to up to three different network management hosts. To enable traps for your print server, 1. Choose TCP/IP Protocol... from the Configuration menu 2. Press the Trap... button to open the Trap
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 3. Check the Send SNMP Traps box to enable the sending of SNMP traps. 4. Set IP addresses and community names for each trap recipient. 5. Click OK to exit the Trap Configuration dialog window when you are done. Printing Text Files from Unix Text files on
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to a printer connected to your TE100-PS3 network print server: 1. Log in as the superuser (root). 2. Add an entry for the print server in the host's /etc/hosts file, giving a host name for the print server's IP address. A line in /etc/hosts contains an IP address and one or more aliases for the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide ◊ On BSD/OS, FreeBSD, or NetBSD systems, create the directory command) for a second printer, using the port_TEXT port. This second printer name can be used for printing text files. Entries in /etc/printcap begin with a name for the printer or a list of names
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, giving a host name for the print server's IP address. A line in /etc/hosts contains an IP address and one or more aliases for the host. For example: 202.39.74.40 ps-142634 ps-142634.dlink.com.tw If you use DNS (the Domain Naming Services protocol), you can add an address record entry to your DNS
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enter the address of the TE100-PS3 print server. You can use the name you added to /etc/hosts in the step above. 9. Confirm that your entries are correct. Is this correct? (y/n) 10.Answer the question: Would you like this to be the system default printer? (y/n) Setting up Unix TCP/IP Printing 83
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, giving a host name for the print server's IP address. A line in /etc/hosts contains an IP address and one or more aliases for the host. For example: 202.39.74.40 ps-142634 ps-142634.dlink.com.tw If you use DNS (the Domain Naming Services protocol), you can add an address record entry to your DNS
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Windows NT versions 3.51 and later support printing using the lpd protocol. To print to your TE100-PS3 network print server from a Windows NT 4.0 workstation or server, 1. Make sure that you have installed the TCP/IP protocol and the Microsoft TCP/IP Printing service. You can install these from the
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 4. Choose the My Computer selection and click the Next > button to continue. 5. Click the Add Port... button to add the lpd print server to the list of ports. 6. Choose the LPR Port type and press New Port.... 86 Setting up Unix TCP/IP Printing
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IP address of your TE100-PS3 network print server, and the port name of the printer you wish to use. 8. Click OK to return to the Printer Ports window, and then click Close to return to the Add Printer Wizard. 9. Click Next > to continue installing the printer, following the on-screen instructions
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line version of FTP, on most systems you can enter the command ftp ip-address to start the ftp client program. At the ftp prompt, you can type put file dest-port to print the local file named file to the print server port named dest-port. (Case is sensitive in the dest-port name
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TE100-PS3 network print server administration tasks, including: ♦ Monitoring the status of printers connected to the print server's ports. ♦ Checking the status of NetWare print jobs. ♦ Configuring NetWare print services, including print servers, print queues, and printers. ♦ Resetting the print
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Define filter strings button Expand server list button Discover print servers button Server name list the toolbar are, from left to right: Configure Server, Configure NetWare, Configure TCP/IP, Configure NetBEUI, Configure AppleTalk, Save Configuration,
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Print Server Administration User's Guide The extended server list format contains additional information about each server. To shrink the list back to the abbreviated format, press the button again. ♦ Server Name Filter The server name filter pull-down list allows you to choose an already-defined
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Filtering the List of Print Servers In an environment with a large number of print servers, you may wish to set up filters to make it easier to find individual print servers or groups of print servers. Filters are similar to wildcards in DOS or other
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, it first checks the network, looking for all TE100-PS3 network print servers. Since this may take awhile if you have a servers is up-todate. Press the Discover Print Servers button to update the list if necessary. 2. Choose Save As... from the File menu. Choose a file name for the file. By default
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User's Guide 3. Click OK. The settings accessible from the EtherPort Admin Preferences dialog window are: ♦ Load Environment File on Startup/Discover Environment on Startup Determines whether EtherPort Admin should load a file listing all of the print servers on the network and their addresses, or
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Pressing the More... button will display the IPX Network Segments window, which allows you to choose which networks will be searched. You can choose All Network Segments to discover servers on all reachable networks, or Selected Network Segments to select
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the use of PJL on the port (see the Changing Print Server Port Settings section on page 16 for instructions on how to do this), then the Printer Model, based print queues being served by your TE100-PS3 network print server, and to change the form type being used on a port. The NetWare Print Jobs
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Selecting the symbol to the left of the port name will expand the list of all of the queues served by the port. Selecting a print queue and pressing the Print Jobs... button will display the Manage Print Jobs window: From this window you can view the list of
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Selecting a port and pressing the Form Type... button will display the Form Type window, provided the port is not set to service All Forms (see the NetWare Settings section starting on page 38 for more information about the Form Type setting). From the Form
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Managing Print Queues Selecting Print Queues... from the EtherPort Admin NetWare menu displays the NetWare Print Queues dialog window. To create a new print queue, click on the name of the file server where you want to create the queue and press Create....
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Print Server Administration User's Guide From the Assign Operators tab, you can determine what users are allowed to operate the queue. Queue operators are allowed to edit other user's print jobs, delete print jobs, change the order of print jobs, and modify the queue status. From the Assign Users
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Print Server Administration User's Guide can add individual users. For NetWare 4.x servers, you will need to create such a group manually. Managing Printers Selecting Printers... from the EtherPort Admin NetWare menu displays the NetWare Printers dialog window. Clicking on a printer and clicking
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Print Server Administration User's Guide From the Assign NetWare Notifications tab, you can determine which users are notified if a problem occurs with the print job. By default, only the owner of the individual print job receives notification. Managing Print Servers Selecting Print Servers...
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Selecting a file server and clicking Create... allows you to create a new print server. Selecting a print server and clicking Delete allows you to delete it, and clicking Assignments... displays the Print Server Assignments dialog window. From the Assign
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, you can set the print server's user list. Print server users are allowed to monitor the print server's status. (It is not necessary to be a print server user to print to a queue served by the printer; one need only be a queue user.) By default on NetWare 3.x servers, the group EVERYONE is included
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values. To perform the reset: 1. Select Reset or Factory Reset from the Tools menu. 2. EtherPort Admin will ask for confirmation for the reset. 3. Click Yes to confirm. The print server will reset itself. If you selected Factory Reset, all of the print server's default configuration values will be
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Upgrading the Print Server's Internal Firmware The print server's internal software is stored in Flash memory, which allows you to upgrade it to an updated version without shipping the print server back to your distributor. Consult your dealer for information
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down the print server or disconnecting it from the network. The print server should be able to recover from an interrupted transfer in most cases, However, in some situations it may be necessary to return your print server for servicing in order to recover from an interrupted download. EtherPort
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Troubleshooting Print Server Problems This chapter gives advice for identifying problems with your TE100-PS3 network print server. Using the EtherPort Admin Device Diagnostics Window Choosing Device Diagnostics... from the EtherPort Admin Management menu
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Print Server Administration User's Guide The Status tab shows the status of the print server's various subsystems. The Statistics tab about the problem, which should be able to assist your or technical support representative to locate the problem. Troubleshooting Print Server Problems 109
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Diagnostic window. You can use this function to keep a record of your print server's settings for future reference. The contents of this file may also be useful to your technical support representative if you encounter problems you are unable to resolve. 110 Troubleshooting Print Server Problems
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) address, the IP address you want to assign to the print server, the network's mask, and the default gateway (router) address. Consult your BOOTP server documentation for information about how to add an entry to the server table. If you aren't using BOOTP, you can manually set the IP address using
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User's Guide protocol) table to add a mapping from the IP address you want to assign to the print server's Ethernet address. For many TCP/IP systems, this is done with a command of the form: arp -s ip-address ethernet-address For example, to assign the address 202.39.74.40 to the print server with
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Where ip-address is the IP address you have assigned to the print server. When you first telnet to the print server, it displays its log-in message. At this point you can enter the password you have assigned to your print server. If you have not yet assigned
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Method 0 - Return to Main Menu Enter Selection: 2. To change the IP address, local subnet mask, or default gateway, choose the appropriate menu item. The print server will prompt you for a new value for the setting. Enter the new value and
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menu item from the TCP/IP configuration menu. The print server will display the SNMP Trap menu: [SNMP Traps] 1 - Traps 2 - Target 1 IP Address 3 - Target 1 Community Name 4 - Target 2 IP Address 5 - Target 2 Community Name 6 - Target 3 IP Address 7 - Target 3 Community Name 0 - Return to
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 1. Disable 2. Enable 0. Return to SNMP Traps Menu Enter Selection: Once traps are enabled, you can assign up to three different hosts as designated trap recipients. With each trap recipient IP address, there is also an associated SNMP community name that will
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's Guide To change one of these settings, 1. From the main menu, choose Server Configuration. The print server will display the Server Configuration menu. [Server Configuration] 1 - Server Name 2 - Location 3 - Admin Contact 4 - Change Password
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Print Server Administration User's Guide Changing the Print Server Password The print server password is used to protect the print server's configuration from changes, either through the EtherPort Admin program, or through the telnet interface. To change the print server's password, 1. From the
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configuration? (y/n) Answer Y to confirm the save. The telnet connection will drop, and the print server will reset itself, letting the new password setting take effect. Changing Port Settings Each port on the print server has several settings that you may need to change to suit your configuration
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 2. Select the port you wish to configure. The print server will display a menu appropriate to the change any of the displayed settings, choose the appropriate menu item. The print server will prompt for the new value. 4. When you are done changing settings
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 5. When you are done changing port settings, choose 0 to return to the main menu. 6. Choose the Save Configuration menu item. The print server . The telnet connection will drop, and the print server will reset itself, letting the new port settings take effect
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Print Server Administration User's Guide [AppleTalk Configuration] 1 - Zone Name 2 - Port 1 Printer Type 3 - Port 1 PostScript Level 4 - Port 2 Printer Type 5 - Port 2 PostScript Level 6 - Port 3 Printer Type 7 - Port 3
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Print Server Administration User's Guide The Display Configuration selection displays several pages of information about the print server's hardware and internal software Selection: Resetting the Print Server Sometimes it may be desirable to restart the print server, in order to reset its internal
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what you want. All settings, including the print server's TCP/IP network address, will be erased and replaced with their original values. To reset the print server, 1. Choose Tools from the Main Menu. [Tools] 1 - Reset 2 - Factory Reset 3 - Download Firmware 0 - Return to Main Menu Enter Selection
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Upgrading Print Server Firmware Print Server Administration User's Guide The print server's internal software is stored in Flash memory, which allows you to upgrade it to an updated version without shipping the print server back to your distributor. Consult your dealer for information about when
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 3. Connect to the print server using telnet, and select Tools from the Main Menu. 4. Choose Download Firmware. The print server will display the Download Firmware menu. [Download Firmware] 1 - TFTP Server IP Address 2 - Download 0 - Return to Tools
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, 17 default gateway setting using EtherP Admin, 74 setting using telnet interface, 112 Define Filter Strings button, 89, 90 Description port, 16 Device Diagnostics button, 88 Discover Print Servers button, 89, 91 DNS, 78 DWL file, 104, 123 ENV file, 91 environment files, 91 Ethernet address, 109
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Print Server Administration User's Guide 128 changing, 96 form types defining, 96 FreeBSD, 78 group name. See workgroup name hardware flow control, 18 hosts file, 78 image file, 104 installing EtherP Admin, 8 IP address setting using EtherP Admin, 74 setting using telnet interface, 112 IPX network
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78 telnet command, 110 telnet interface, 8, 109 testing the print server, 18 TFTP, 85 TFTP server, 123 toolbar buttons, 88 Tools menu Download Firmware..., 104 Factory Reset, 103 Print Test..., 18 Print Server Administration User's Guide Reset, 103 traps, 76 Trivial File Transfer Protocol. See TFTP