Linksys PPSX1 manuale d’uso

Instant EtherFast ® Series EtherFast ® 10/100 PrintSer vers Use this Guide to install the following products: EPSX3 ver . 2 EtherFast 10/100 3-Port PrintSer ver PPSX1 ver . 2 EtherFast 10/100 1-Port PrintSer ver User Guide[...]

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EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Instant EtherFast ® Series T able of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1 The EtherF ast 10/100 PrintServers 1 F eatures 1 Package Contents for the 3-P ort PrintSer ver 2 Package Contents 2 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the EtherFast 3-Port PrintServer 3 The 3-P or t PrintSer ver’ s LEDs 3 The 3-P or t PrintSer ver’ s [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 1 Chapter 1: Introduction The EtherF ast 10/100 PrintServer is the easiest and fastest wa y to add up to three printers to your netw ork. Because it is equipped with up to three high- speed printer ports, the 10/100 PrintSer ver allo ws any PC on the netw ork to print to any combination of laser , color, bubb le jet, i[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 3 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the EtherFast ® 3-Por t PrintSer ver Pow e r Green . The Po w er LED illuminates when the PrintServer is po wered on. Link Gr een . If the LAN Link LED is continuously illuminated , the PrintServer is successfully connected to a de vice through that port. Printer 1 (P1), Printer 2 (P2), Pr[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Chapter 3: Getting to Know the EtherFast ® 1-Por t PrintSer ver Pow e r Green . The Po w er LED illuminates when the PrintServer is po wered on. Act Gr een . If the Act LED is continuously illuminated , the PrintServer is activ ely sending or recei ving data. LAN Gr een . The LAN LED illuminates to indicate that the P[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Chapter 4: Hardware Installation Before starting your ph ysical installation, be sure to f ind the PrintServer’ s Default Name and Node Address. This infor mation may be hard to access after the PrintServer is completely installed in y our network and surrounded by wires and computers. On the back or bottom of the Pr[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 9 Instant EtherFast ® Series 8 Chapter 5: Windows Driver Setup 1. T o begin dri ver installation, click the Start button, and select Run . T ype D:Driv erWin9xntSetup.ex e (where “D” is the letter of your CD-R OM dri ve) in the Open f ield that appears. Click the OK button. 2. The W elcome screen appears. Read [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 11 Instant EtherFast ® Series 10 5. Dri ver installation is no w completed , but the Print Driv er still needs to be conf igured. The PrintSer ver will not function properl y until the Print Driv er is conf igured. Check the box beside Conf igure Print Dri v er No w , and click the Finish button to continue. 6. Before[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 13 Instant EtherFast ® Series 12 9. The Add Printer W izard screen will come up at this point. F ollow the stan- dard procedure for adding printers under W indows. If y ou hav e an y ques- tions on adding printers, please refer to your printer’ s documentation. 10. After your printer(s) ha ve been added , you will r[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 15 Chapter 6: Bi-Admin: PrintSer ver Management The PrintServer is managed by a utility pro g ram called Bi-Admin on the PrintServer CD . Full y compatib le with W indo ws 95, 98, Millennium, NT , 2000, and XP , Bi-Admin allows y ou to change the PrintSer ver’ s inter nal settings, check on the unit’ s status, and [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Using Bi-Admin Obtaining Device Information: The Device Information Icon T o access infor mation about your PrintServer , either click on it in the Device List windo w (on the right side of the Bi- Admin windo w) or highlight the PrintSer ver and click on the Device Information icon, shown here. Y ou can also highlight[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 19 Instant EtherFast ® Series 18 Y our PrintSer ver onl y sho ws as many parallel port icons as it has por ts. F or example, with this model, onl y two parallel port icons will sho w . Because Linksys PrintServers do not support serial printing, the serial por t icon will al wa ys remain g ray and inaccessib le. The P[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 21 Instant EtherFast ® Series 20 Logical P ort Configuration: Logical P ort Configuration Icon T o set or change the PrintSer ver’ s logical port settings, highlight the PrintServer to be changed and click on the Logical P ort icon (sho wn here). The Logical P ort Conf iguration windo w will appear . Make any change[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers When the Conf igur e Serv er scr een appears, enter the PrintSer v er name (in the example sho wn here SCA71107 ) . Then enter your pass word (if y ou creat- ed one) into the Pass word f ield and type it again in the V erify Pass word f ield to conf irm it. Check all box es that apply to y our netw ork next to the Enab[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Click the Status tab to allo w you to vie w information about your PrintServer . No values can be changed on this screen. Clicking the Refr esh button causes the PrintServer to update this infor mation again. The Status Page 25 Figure 7-6 24 Click the TCP/IP tab to view or change the PrintServer’ s TCP/IP v alues. If[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 27 Figure 8-1 26 Chapter 8: Advanced Proper ties The Adv anced Properties section of the W eb-based Utility is for users who ha v e a thorough understanding of netw orks and network settings. Changing these settings can cause inter ruption of network communication and mak e the PrintServer cease functioning properly . [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Click the NetBEUI tab to view or change the PrintServer’ s NetBEUI connec- tion settings. Enter the name of the domain that you w ant the PrintSer ver associated with in the Domain Name f ield. If you are unsure of the Domain Name, you can f ind it by looking on an y computer already on the netw ork. In W indo ws 95,[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers No v ell Printer Ser v er f or P3 NetW are print server to service the PrintSer ver's parallel port 3. Print Serv er Mode NDS T ree Name (NDS mode onl y) The File Server's NDS tree name (root name). NDS Context (NDS conte xt) Path to the NDS Conte xt. This does not include the Context itself, and each OU shou[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Management Stations Station No . Select the Management station (1-4) and click the Get Data but- ton to update the displa y for the selected item. IP Addr ess Enter the management station’ s IP Address, which has the SNMP program installed. Community This is a te xt f ield. Enter the name of the community , normally [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Instant EtherFast ® Series IPP Client Conf iguration for Windo ws 95, 98, Millennium, and NT 4.0 1. Run the Add IPP P or t program entr y created by the installation. A screen like the one sho wn in Figure 8-1 will be displa yed. 2. If Internet access from your location is via a Proxy Server , check Access IPP Serv er[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 3. Click the P or t Settings or Conf igure P or t button (Details or P or t tab, depending on your v ersion of W indo ws). The Conf igure IPP P ort screen (sho wn in Figure 8-3) will appear . There are tw o settings—Retr y Inter val and Retry Count—that can be adjust- ed if you ha ve prob lems connecting to the IPP[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 4. If the connection can be established , and the printer on that port is online, the dialo g box sho wn in Figure 8-5 will be displa yed. This screen notif ies y ou that the printer driv er is not installed. Click the OK button. 5. Select the printer manuf acturer and model to match the printer connected to the port o[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 41 Chapter 10: NetWare Ser vices Setup The PrintServer pro vides full y functional printing ser vices in NetW are 5.x, 4.x, and 3.x netw ork environments. The PrintServer communicates through the TCP/IP (for NetW are 5.x) and IPX/SPX protocols, which are built into the NetW are operating system soft- ware. This section[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 43 Instant EtherFast ® Series 42 7. Click the button that looks like three dots beside the Resident Serv er f ield. W ith this, you can bro wse and select the name of the ser v er to which you want to assign this NDPS Manager . 8. Click the button that looks like three dots beside the Database V olume f ield. W ith th[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 45 44 Print Server Mode T o set up the PrintSer ver under NetW are using the IPX/SPX protocol for NetW are 5.x, use an application called Quickset.ex e, which is found in the D:UtilityDOS directory on your PrintServer CD . 1. Log in to the NDS netw ork as an Administrator or as a user with Administrator pri vileges. [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 47 Instant EtherFast ® Series This example installs the PrintServer SC0C8A02 as a NetW are PrintServer in the cur rent location. The PrintSer ver’ s def ault name is no w "PS," and “epson” is the name for the f irst printer queue. Remote Printer Mode The instructions below conf igure the PrintSer ver f[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 49 1. The PrintServer prints garbage. • Print a diagnostic f ile using PSCONFIG or Bi-Admin program. a. Run PSCONFIG and select your PrintServ er from the list. Then, select Print Diagnostic Report b . Select each port in tur n and print a diagnostic repor t. c. Check to see if the diagnostic repor t printed. If the [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers • Check the NetW are print server's name. If it is o v er 20 characters, rename the NetW are print ser ver name using no more than 20 characters. 5. The PrintServer cannot print the jobs sent to the print queue. • The printer attached to the PrintServer should be on-line. • V erify that the PrintServer is lo[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 53 Instant EtherFast ® Series 52 13. How do I attach to more than one NetW are Print Server? • In NetW are Remote Printer mode, if you w ant each por t of the PrintServer to attach to a different NetW are Print Ser ver , perfor m the fol- lo wing steps. a. Use PCONSOLE to create and assign the required printers and [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 55 Instant EtherFast ® Series 54 6. Some DOS-based programs do not work on a Windows 95/98 peer -to-peer net- work. • Some DOS application require an LPT port to print. Y ou can enable the NetBEUI protocol and capture a port but you must ha ve NetBEUI installed on your netw ork. F ollo w the instructions below: a. R[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 57 Appendix B: DHCP Suppor t f o r the PrintSer v e r T o use DHCP , which assigns non-static IP addresses, y ou must hav e a DHCP server . Otherwise, the PrintSer v er's IP address will remain unknown and con- necting to it will impossible. In this case, ignore DHCP and conf igure the PrintServer for a static IP [...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 59 The follo wing instr uctions are pro vided as examples for reference only . F or complete instructions on installing and troubleshooting TCP/IP and IPX, con- sult your W indo ws operating system documentation. 1. Click the Start button, select Settings , and open the Control P anel . Inside the Control Panel, doub l[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 61 Instant EtherFast ® Series 2. When the Netw ork windo w appears, click the Pr otocols tab . Then, click the Add button. 3. Find the IPX/SPX pr otocol in the Select Netw ork Pr otocol f ield. Click on it once and click the OK button. 1. At the W indo ws 2000 desktop, right click My Network Places . Then, right click[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 62 1. Click the Start button, select Printers and choose Fa x e s . 2. Right click on the printer you w ant to set up. Then, click Properties from the drop-do wn menu that appears. 3. Click the Po r t s tab . 4. Click the Add P ort... Button. 5. When the Printer P or ts windo w appears, select Standard TCP/IP P ort . 6[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Linksys designed the PrintServer to function with both regular as w ell as bi- directional printers. Standard print servers cannot w ork with bi-directional printers, but the PrintServer features a custom design to support both parallel as w ell as bi-directional parallel interf aces. Ho we ver , the PrintServer cannot[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Appendix F: Specifications for the 3-Por t PrintSer v e r Model Number EPSX3 ver . 2 Standards IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u Protocol CSMA/CD T opology Star P orts T wo DMA-Equipped Bi-directional Parallel Ports, One Parallel Printer Port, One Auto-Sensing RJ-45 10/100 Port P ort Speed (Mbps) 10 or 100 (Half Duplex) 20 or 20[...]

EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 69 Instant EtherFast ® Series Appendix G: Specifications for the 1-Por t PrintSer v e r Model Number PPSX1 ver . 2 Standards IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u Protocol CSMA/CD T opology Star P orts One DMA-Equipped Bi-directional Printer Ports, One Auto-Sensing RJ-45 10/100 Ports P ort Speed (Mbps) 10 or 100 (Half Duplex) 20 or[...]

Instant EtherFast ® Series 70 Appendix I: Contact Information F or help with the installation or operation of this product, contact Linksys T echnical Suppor t at one of the phone numbers or Inter net addresses belo w . Sales Information 800-546-5797 (LINKSYS) T echnical Support 800-326-7114 RMA Issues 949-271-5461 Fa x 949-265-6655 Email support@[...]

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