SEH PS Series User manual

Print Server
PS Series
User Manual
Windows

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Contents
1 General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Your Print Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Support and Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 Your Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.5 First Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Finding the Print Server (Determining the IP Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Printing in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1 How to Set Up Socket Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 How to Set Up LPD/LPR Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 How to Set Up IPP Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.4 How to Configure Encrypted Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3 Administration Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1 Administration via Print Server Homepage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 Administration Via InterCon-NetTool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.3 Administration via FTP/FTPS Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.4 Administration via Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4 Network Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.1 How to Configure IPv4 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.2 How to Configure IPv6 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.3 How to Adapt the Network Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.4 How to Configure NetBIOS/WINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.5 How to Configure the DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.6 How to Configure Bonjour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.7 How to Use SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.8 How to Configure POP3 and SMTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.9 How to Configure WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5 Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.1 How to Enable PJL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.2 How to Enable 1284.4/MLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5.3 How to Define the Communication Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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5.4 How to Configure COM1 Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6 Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.1 How to Configure the Language of the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.2 How to Configure the Device Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.3 How to Determine a Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
7 Print Server Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.1 How to View Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.2 What Status Information is Shown? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
7.3 How to Print a Status or Service Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
8 Print Jobs and Print Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
8.1 How to Define a Timeout for Taking on Print Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
8.2 How to Assign Print Jobs Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.3 How to Modify Print Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8.4 How to Convert Print Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
8.5 How to Use Logical Printers (Filter Functions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
9 Printer Status and Printer Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
9.1 How to View the Printer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
9.2 How to Get Additional Printer Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
9.3 How to Get Printer Messages via Email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
9.4 How to Get Printer Messages via SNMP Trap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
9.5 How to View the Job History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
10 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
10.1 How to Define a Password for the Print Server
(Read/Write Protection) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
10.2 How to Disable the HTTP Access (Protection against Viruses) . . . . . 89
10.3 How to Protect Printers against Unauthorized Access
(IP Sender Control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
11 Certificate Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
11.1 How to View Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
11.2 How to Create a Self-Signed Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
11.3 How to Create a Certificate Request for a Requested Certificate. . . 98

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11.4 How to Save a Requested Certificate in the Print Server. . . . . . . . . . 100
11.5 How to Save a PKCS12 Certificate in the Print Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
11.6 How to Save CA Certificates in the Print Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
11.7 How to Delete Certificates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
12 Network Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
12.1 How to Configure EAP-MD5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
12.2 How to Configure EAP-TLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
12.3 How to Configure EAP-TTLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
12.4 How to Configure PEAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
12.5 How to Configure EAP-FAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
13 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
13.1 How to Secure the Print Server Parameters (Backup) . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
13.2 How to Reset Parameters to their Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
13.3 How to Perform an Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
13.4 How to Restart the Print Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
14 Additional Feature – ThinPrint®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
14.1 How to Address the Print Server in a ThinPrint Environment . . . . . 136
14.2 How to Define the ThinPrint Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
14.3 How to Define the Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
14.4 How to Use ThinPrint AutoConnect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
14.5 How Does the Print Server Receive Encrypted Data?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
15 Additional Feature – Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) . . 141
15.1 How to Create IPsec Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
15.2 How to Use IPsec Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
15.3 How to Define Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
15.4 How to Enable IPsec Policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
16 Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
16.1 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
16.2 Parameter List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
16.3 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
16.4 List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
16.5 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

General Information
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1 General Information
What Information
Do You Need?
• ’Your Print Server’ 1
• ’Documentation’ 2
• ’Support and Service’ 4
• ’Your Safety’ 5
• ’First Steps’ 6
• ’Finding the Print Server (Determining the IP Address)’ 6
1.1 Your Print Server
Purpose Print servers are active network components that receive print jobs
from connected users or user groups within a network and forward
them to printers or other end devices.
Supported Systems Print servers have been designed for the use in the following sys-
tems:
• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
• Mac OS X 10.8.x, Mac OS X 10.9.x, Mac OS X 10.10.x
This document describes the usage in Windows environments. Infor-
mation about the usage in other environments can be found in the
relevant system-specific User Manual. For further information; see:
’Documentation’ 2.
This chapter contains information concerning the
device and the documentation as well as notes about
your safety. You will learn how to benefit from your
print server and how to operate the device properly.

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1.2 Documentation
Structure of the
Documentation
The print server documentation consists of the following docu-
ments:
Scope and Content This documentation describes a variety of print server models. This
means that features will be described that may not be applicable to
your print server. Information about the features of your print
server can be found in the data sheet of your print server model.
Due to the multitude of supported operating systems, instructions
are described exemplarily. The respective concept can be transferred
to other versions of the operating system.
Document Features This documentation has been designed as an electronic document
for screen use. Many programs (e.g. Adobe® Reader®) offer a book-
mark navigation feature that allows you to view the entire docu-
ment structure.
This document contains hyperlinks to the associated information
units. If you want to print this documentation, we recommend using
the printer setting 'Duplex' or 'Booklet'.
Terminology Used in
this Document
The explanation of technical terms used in this document is summa-
rized in a glossary. The glossary provides a quick overview of techni-
cal matters and background information; see: 159.
User Manual
Detailed description of the print server installation,
configuration, and administration. System-specific
instructions for the following systems:
- Windows
- Mac
Quick Installation Guide
Information about security, hardware installation, and the
initial operation procedure.
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Printed
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Symbols and
Conventions
A variety of symbols are used within this document. Their meaning is
listed in the following table:
Table 1: Conventions within the documentation
Symbol / Convention Description
Warning
A warning contains important information that
must be heeded. Non-observance may lead to
malfunctions.
Note
A notice contains information that should be
heeded.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select…
The ‘hand’ symbol marks the beginning of
instructions. Individual instructions are set in
italics.
Confirmation The arrow confirms the consequence of an
action.
Requirements Hooks mark requirements that must be met
before you can begin the action.
Option A square marks procedures and options that
you can choose.
• Eye-catchers mark lists.
This sign indicates the summary of a chapter.
 The arrow marks a reference to a page within
this document. In the PDF file, you can jump to
this page by clicking the symbol.
Bold Established terms (of buttons or menu items, for
example) are set in bold.
Courier Command lines are set in 'Courier' font.
'Proper names' Proper names are put in inverted commas.

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1.3 Support and Service
Support SEH Computertechnik GmbH offers extensive Support. If you have
any questions, please contact our hotline.
Downloads Downloads can be found on the SEH Computertechnik GmbH home-
page:
http://www.seh-technology.com/services/downloads.html
For print servers you will find:
• current firmware/software
• current tools
• current documentation
• current product information
• product data sheets
• and much more
Monday – Thursday
Friday
8:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 15:15 p.m.
[phone]
[email protected]
http://www.seh.de/

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1.4 Your Safety
Read and observe all safety regulations and warnings found in the
documentation, on the device and on the packaging. This will avoid
potential misuse and prevent damages to people and devices.
SEH Computertechnik GmbH will not accept any liability for per-
sonal injuries, property damages and consequential damages result-
ing from the non-observance of the mentioned safety regulations
and warnings. SEH Computertechnik GmbH will not accept any lia-
bility for loss of data, property damages and consequential damages
resulting from the non-observance of the mentioned safety regula-
tions and warnings.
Intended Use Print servers are network interfaces for printers. They are designed
for the direct integration of printers into networks. The print server
has been designed for use in office environments.
Improper Use All uses of the device that do not comply with the print server func-
tionalities described in the documentation are regarded as improper
uses. It is not allowed to make modifications to the hardware and
software or to try to repair the device.
Safety Regulations Before starting the initial operation procedure of the print server,
please note the safety regulations in the 'Quick Installation Guide'.
This document is enclosed in the packaging in printed form.
Warnings Read and observe all warnings mentioned in this document. Warn-
ings are found before any instructions known to be dangerous. They
are presented as follows:
Warning!