Digitus DN-13003-1 User manual

USB 2.0
FAST ETHERNET PRINTSERVER
User Manual
DN-13003-1

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT........................................................................................................................................................4
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................5
PRODUCT OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................................................5
COMPONENTS AND FEATURES ............................................................................................................................5
HARDWARE INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................................................6
NETWORK ENVIRONMENT ...................................................................................................................................7
WIRED NETWORK WITH PRINT SERVER:...............................................................................................................7
2. PRINT SERVER INSTALLATION...................................................................................................................8
PREPARATION ....................................................................................................................................................8
CONFIGURATION SOLUTION TABLE ......................................................................................................................9
3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION.......................................................................................................................10
INSTALLING THE PSADMIN AND PRINT SERVER’S DRIVER ...................................................................................10
USING PSADMIN ..............................................................................................................................................19
WIZARD ...........................................................................................................................................................20
MANUAL SETUP................................................................................................................................................22
REFRESH .........................................................................................................................................................24
MULTIPLE PRINT QUEUES CONFIGURATION .......................................................................................................25
UNINSTALLING THE PSADMIN ON WINDOWS PC.................................................................................................26
4. INTERNET PRINTER CONNECTION AND HP WEB JETADMIN ..............................................................27
IPP OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................................................27
HP WEB JETADMIN OVERVIEW .........................................................................................................................29
INSTALLING HP WEB JETADMIN ........................................................................................................................29
REMOVING HP WEB JETADMIN UTILITY .............................................................................................................30
5. CONFIGURATION FROM EMBEDDED WEB SERVER .............................................................................31
OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................................................31
USING EMBEDDED WEB SERVER.......................................................................................................................31
SETUP MENU ...................................................................................................................................................38
INSTALLING PRINT SERVER ON NETWARE 4.X/5.X..............................................................................................43
SETTING UP A MACINTOSH COMPUTER..............................................................................................................45
6. NETWORK PRINT MONITOR ......................................................................................................................49
PREPARATION ..................................................................................................................................................49
TCP/IP PROTOCOL INSTALLATION.....................................................................................................................50
IPX/SPX-COMPATIBLE PROTOCOL INSTALLATION ..............................................................................................50
NETBEUI PROTOCOL INSTALLATION..................................................................................................................51
WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 MANUAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ....................................................51
UNINSTALLING NETWORK PRINT PORT ON WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 ...........................................53
7. TCP/IP LPR PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION ..........................................................................................54
BASIC TCP/IP INSTALLATION OVERVIEW ...........................................................................................................54
ASSIGNING AN IP ADDRESS ..............................................................................................................................54
WINDOWS NT LPR PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION.............................................................................................54
WINDOWS 2000/XP/2003/VISTA/7 STANDARD TCP/IP PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION........................................56
UNIX INSTALLATION .........................................................................................................................................59
8. UPGRADING PRINT SERVER......................................................................................................................63
OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................................................63
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM PSADMIN................................................................................................63
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM WINDOWS 2000/XP/2003/VISTA/7 (THROUGH TCP/IP)............................63
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM UNIX (THROUGH TCP/IP) .......................................................................64
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM BROWSER ...............................................................................................65
9. TROUBLESHOOTING ..................................................................................................................................66

GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING OVERVIEW...............................................................................................66
POWER RELATED PROBLEMS ............................................................................................................................66
PRINT PORT RELATED PROBLEMS.....................................................................................................................66
WINDOWS 2000/XP/2003/VISTA/7 TROUBLESHOOTING .....................................................................................67
MOVING THE PRINT SERVER TO ANEW SEGMENT...............................................................................................68
MOVING YOUR COMPUTER TO ANEW SEGMENT................................................................................................69
NOVELL NETWARE TROUBLESHOOTING.............................................................................................................69
TCP/IP TROUBLESHOOTING .............................................................................................................................70
APPENDIX ........................................................................................................................................................72
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ......................................................................................................................77
ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS .........................................................................................................79

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Trademarks
NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell Inc and Windows 95/98/Me and Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All other brands and
product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Copyright
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make
any derivative (such as translation, transformation or adaptation) without the express written
consent of the manufacturer as stipulated by the United States Copyright Act of 1976.
FCC Warning
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to subpart J of Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated
in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual,
may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which the user will be required to
correct the interference at their own expense.
All content is subject to change without prior notice.

1. 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, PPA.
Network Management
The print servers support the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which remote
printer management and a warning. A standard SNMP agent is permanent on these print
servers. Any standard SNMP-based application can be used to access and manage these
print servers.
Network configuration
The print servers provide an embedded web server that can be accessed via a proper web
browser. We also subsidiary Windows-based PSAdmin utility which help administrator to
setup print server environment.
Components and Features
1-USB Port Print Server
˙1 USB2.0 port
˙Fast Ethernet network port: RJ-45 for 10Base-T or 100Base-TX
˙1 LED to indicate Status(Orange), 2 LED’s to indicate 10M(Orange) and 100M(Green) link
lights
˙1 LED to indicate USB port: Green for USB2.0, Orange for USB1.1
˙Built-in Reset Button
˙One Setup CD for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, User’s Guide
˙One external AC power adapter
˙One Quick Installation Guide

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LED Indicators
LED State Indication
Status Blinking for POST
(Orange)
When power switched on, the Status indicator will flash five
times, and then on.
100Mbps On (Green) LAN Port has a valid network connection at 100Mbps.
10Mbps On (Orange) LAN Port has a valid network connection at 10Mbps.
USB On (Green) Connect with USB2.0 printer
On (Orange) Connect with USB1.1 printer
Before you start, you should prepare the following items:
One Windows-based computer with print server setup CD
One printer with a USB port
One USB printer cable
Hardware Installation
To install the print servers, you need to complete these steps:
˙Confirm that your printer USB port works well.
˙Connect the print server to the network and printer, and plug in the print server.
Follow these instructions to install the print servers, please refer to any peripheral
you are connecting to the print server:
1. Turn off the printer’s power.
2. Connect the print server to your printer with the USB cable.
3. Turn the printer’s power on.
4. Plug the AC power adapter into the power connector on the print server.
5. Wait 10 seconds until all the LEDs have stopped flashing.
Note: The Status LED should be flash five times when POST. If not, please contact your
local dealer for repair or replacement.

Wall-mount Information
Note: We are not responsible for damages incurred by insecure wall-mounting hardware.
Network Environment
Wired Network with Print Server:
Printer Print Server
Computer Computer Computer
HUB

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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
2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, UNIX systems and Macintosh computer. As such, there might
be several ways to deploy the print server on your network.
Supported Networks
Print server supports a variety of network protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI
and AppleTalk. In addition, we provide software for network configuration on the following
networks:
˙Novell NetWare 3.12, 4.x, 5.x (Bindery and NDS)
˙Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me
˙Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
˙Apple EtherTalk
˙UNIX /Linux system
˙Internet (via Internet Printer Connection software)

Configuration Solution Table
Setup Operating
System Function Remarks
PSAdmin utility / Setup Wizard
Windows 95/98/Me
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Install a single network on a
peer-to-peer or client-server
network
Easy printer installation runs
from print server setup CD
Embedded Web server
Windows 95/98/Me
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Mac OS, Linux…
Remote setup print server
from private LAN
Support Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.01 or higher, Mozilla
Firefox, Netscape 7.2 or higher,
etc.
HP Web JetAdmin
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/
Remote management of
print server, include
alert and consumables
Print server solution for continual
management of multiple
printers- anywhere on your LAN
Internet Printing Protocol
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Printing via the internet to
Internet Printing Protocol-
enabled print server
Allows saving distribution of HQ
hardcopy document over
Internet, replacing fax, mail
Comment
Configuration solution Table has many installations way to setup Windows 95/98/Me,
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, 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 Server Installation with print server.

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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 into your CD-drive, and the following message appears:
Note:
For setup wizard under Windows Vista/7, you have to choose the Run as administrator
by right-click the icon on desktop.