LevelOne FPS-1031 User manual

FPS-1031
Print Server w/ 1 Parallel Port
User Manual
Ver. 1.00-0803

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The LevelOne Support Team can not support questions or
compatibility issues ith the follo ing operating systems:
Windo s NT/95/98/98se/Me

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ABLE OF C ONTENTS
C OPYRIGHT ........................................................................................................................................ 5
1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................ 6
P RODUCT O V RVI W ........................................................................................................................ 6
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OMPON NTS AND F ATUR S .......................................................................................................... 6
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ARDWAR I NSTALLATION ................................................................................................................ 7
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TWORK NVIRONM NT .................................................................................................................. 8
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IR D N TWORK WITH P RINT S RV R ........................................................................................... 8
2. PRINT SERVER INSTALLATION .............................................................................................. 9
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R PARATION .................................................................................................................................... 9
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ONFIGURATION S OLUTION T ABL ................................................................................................... 9
3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ................................................................................................... 11
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NSTALLING TH PSA DMIN AND P RINT S RV R ’ S D RIV R ............................................................. 11
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SING PSA DMIN .............................................................................................................................. 19
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IZARD ............................................................................................................................................ 20
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ANUAL S TUP ............................................................................................................................... 22
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FR SH .......................................................................................................................................... 24
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ULTIPL P RINT Q U U S C ONFIGURATION ................................................................................... 25
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NINSTALLING TH PSA DMIN ON W INDOWS PC ........................................................................... 25
4. INTERNET PRINTER CONNECTION AND HP WEB JETADMIN ..................................... 27
IPP
O V RVI W ................................................................................................................................ 27
HP
W B J T A DMIN O V RVI W ...................................................................................................... 29
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NSTALLING HP W B J T A DMIN ..................................................................................................... 30
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MOVING HP W B J T A DMIN U TILITY ......................................................................................... 30
5. CONFIGURATION FROM EMBEDDED WEB SERVER ..................................................... 31
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V RVI W ....................................................................................................................................... 31
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SING MB DD D W B S RV R .................................................................................................... 31
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TUP M NU ................................................................................................................................... 38
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NSTALLING P RINT S RV R ON N T W AR 4. X /5. X ........................................................................ 43
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TTING U P A M ACINTOSH C OMPUT R .......................................................................................... 45
6. NETWORK PRINT MONITOR .................................................................................................. 49
P R PARATION .................................................................................................................................. 49
TCP/IP
P ROTOCOL I NSTALLATION .................................................................................................. 50
IPX/SPX-
COMPATIBL P ROTOCOL I NSTALLATION ......................................................................... 50
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T B UI P ROTOCOL I NSTALLATION .............................................................................................. 51
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INDOWS 95/98/M /NT/2000/XP/2003 MANUAL I NSTALLATION P ROC DUR .......................... 51
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NINSTALLING N TWORK P RINT P ORT ON W INDOWS 95/98/M /NT/2000/XP/2003................. 53
7. TCP/IP LPR PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION ................................................................... 54
B ASIC TCP/IP I NSTALLATION O V RVI W ....................................................................................... 54
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SSIGNING AN IP A DDR SS ............................................................................................................ 54
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INDOWS NT LPR P ORT P RINTING I NSTALLATION ....................................................................... 54
W INDOWS 2000/XP/2003 S TANDARD TCP/IP P ORT P RINTING I NSTALLATION ........................... 56

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UNIX I NSTALLATION ........................................................................................................................ 59
8. UPGRADING PRINT SERVER ................................................................................................. 63
O V RVI W ....................................................................................................................................... 63
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PGRADING TH PRINT S RV R FROM PSA DMIN ........................................................................... 63
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PGRADING TH PRINT S RV R FROM W INDOWS NT/2000/XP/2003 (T HROUGH TCP/IP) ....... 63
U PGRADING TH PRINT S RV R FROM UNIX (T HROUGH TCP/IP)................................................ 64
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PGRADING TH PRINT S RV R FROM B ROWS R .......................................................................... 64
9. TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................................................................... 66
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N RAL T ROUBL SHOOTING O V RVI W ..................................................................................... 66
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OW R R LAT D P ROBL MS ......................................................................................................... 66
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RINT P ORT R LAT D P ROBL MS .................................................................................................. 66
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INDOWS 95/98/M /NT/2000/XP/2003 T ROUBL SHOOTING .................................................... 67
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OVING TH PRINT S RV R TO A N W S GM NT ......................................................................... 68
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OVING Y OUR C OMPUT R TO A N W S GM NT ........................................................................... 69
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OV LL N T W AR T ROUBL SHOOTING ......................................................................................... 69
TCP/IP
T ROUBL SHOOTING ........................................................................................................... 69
APPENDIX ........................................................................................................................................ 72
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R QU NTLY A SK D Q U STIONS ................................................................................................... 81
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DDITIONAL I NSTALLATION I NSTRUCTIONS ..................................................................................... 83

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Trademarks
NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell Inc and Windows 95/98/Me and Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 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.
Shielded (STP) network cables must be used with this unit to ensure compliance with MC
standards.
All contents are subject to change ithout prior notice.
Part No. PS7119A+-V1.3

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1. Introduction
Product Overvie
The external print servers enhance capability by letting you place your printers at convenient
locations directly on the thernet 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.
Net ork 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.
Net ork 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
Net ork Print Server
˙1 Parallel port
˙Fast thernet network port: RJ-45 for 10Base-T or 100Base-TX
˙1 L D to indicate Status(Yellow), 2 L D’
s to indicate 10M(Yellow) and 100M(Green) link
lights
˙One Setup CD for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, User’s Guide
˙One external AC power adapter
˙One Quick Installation Guide
˙Built-in Reset button

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LED Indicators
LED State Indication
Status
Blinking for POST
(Yellow)
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 (Yellow) LAN Port has a valid network connection at 10Mbps.
Before you start, you should prepare the follo ing items:
 One Windows-based computer with print server setup CD
 One printer with a Parallel port
 One printer cable
Hard are Installation
To install the print servers, you need to complete these steps:
˙Confirm that your printer parallel port works well.
˙Connect the print server to the network and printer, and plug in the print server.
Follo 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 printer 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 L Ds have stopped flashing.
Note: The Status L D should be flash five times when POST. If not, please contact your
local dealer for repair or replacement.

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Reset Button
To printer
Net ork Environment
Wired Net ork ith 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, NetB UI and AppleTalk. This means that the print server supports the
most popular network operating systems today, including NetWare, Windows
95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, UNIX systems and Macintosh computer. As such, there might
be several ways to deploy the print server on your network.
Supported Net orks
Print server supports a variety of network protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetB UI
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
˙Apple therTalk
˙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/200
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Install a single
network on a
peer-to-peer or
client-server
network
asy printer installation runs from print server
setup CD
mbedded Web server
Windows
95/98/Me
Windows
NT/2000/XP/200
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Mac OS, Linux…
Remote setup
print server from
private LAN
Follow standard browse, e.g. I or Netscape
HP Web JetAdmin

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Windows
NT/2000/XP/200
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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/200
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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, 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 mbedded Web Server Installation with print server.

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3. Soft are 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
2. Insert the setup CD into your CD-ROM and the following message appears.
3. Choose FPS-1031.
4. Choose Setup Wizard to install the print server and configure the connected printer.
Note:
The setup CD will install the print server’s driver, PSAdmin and Setup Wizard into your
computer. The default installation directory will be C:\Program files\Net ork Print
Monitor.

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5. Click Next, the wizard will automatically discover the print server.
6. From the Select A Print Sever screen, select the print server that you want to configure
and click Next.

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7. On the Change Settings screen, select No or Yes:
Click No if you want the print server to keep using the default IP address and keep the
default settings:
 IP address: 192.168.0.10
 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Click Yes if you want change IP address to the print server, and then click Next.
8. In the setup wizard, select an already configured printer from the list, click Next, Next
and then Finish to complete the installation.
or
Note:
1. The IP address of print server must be within the same subnet as your network adapter.
2. After you save the new IP address, the print server will automatic reboot once to make
ready for the new IP address. It may take a couple of seconds.

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Select Add Ne Printer if the print server is connected to a printer that hasn’t been
installed before and does not appear in the list.

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9. Click Add Ne Printer to launch Windo s Add Printer Wizard.
10. Click Next and select Local Printer, make sure the Automatically detect and install
my Plug and Play printer check box is NOT checked. Then click Next.

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11. Make sure the Use the follo ing port radio-button is clicked and select LPT1:
(recommended Printer Port) from the pull-down list. Then click Next.
12. Select Manufacturer and Printer from the lists of printer’s driver. Then click Next.

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13. If you already have the printer’s driver installed, you will be asked whether to keep it or to
replace it. Click Next. Supply a name for the printer and choose whether you want to
make it your default printer. Then click Next.
14. Then, choose whether you want to share the printer with other network user, print a test
page (please select No.), etc. Select the appropriate radio-button and click Next and
Finish.
15. In the setup wizard, finish the installation by highlighting the installed printer in the
Select a Printer list and click Next, NEXT -> Finish.
16. From Windows system, go to start -> Printers and Faxes and highlight your newly
installed printer.

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17. Right-click, select Properties -> Ports and verify that the print server’s port appears.

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18. Go to General; click Print Test Page to verify the configuration.
19. Done.
Note:
If you want to install more print servers, start setup wizard from your Windows Start menu:
start -> All Programs -> Net ork Print Server -> PSWizard and repeat the installation
procedure.
Using PSAdmin
After the software of setup CD is successfully installed, starts PSAdmin utility from your
Windows Start menu: start -> All Programs -> Net ork Print Server -> PSAdmin. The
screen will then appear as follow picture.
All print server(s) feature Novell NetWare function on the LAN will be displayed along with
their respective device name, MAC Address, print server name, firmware version, and
status. The terms are defined as follows:
Device Name: The name of the print server hardware used for identification purposes.
MAC Address: The thernet address of the print server.
Print server Name: The print server to which the device is attached.
Version: The firmware version of the print server.
Status: To come up a Printer’s status presently.

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Wizard
Wizard is a configuration program that can assist you in setting up the necessary parameters
for your print server device to function. Setup a print server by using Wizard.
TCP/IP Wizard
1. Click Wizard button just like a picture ＜ ＞.and select TCP/IP Wizard.
2 Select “Obtain an IP address from DHCP server”. If there is a DHCP server on your
network. This option allows the print server to obtain IP-related settings automatically
from your DHCP server. This setting, by default, is disabled. If you would like to
manually specify an IP address to the device, please skip to the following step.
3 In the IP Address option, type an IP address for the print server. The IP address must
meet the IP addressing requirements of the network segment.