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1. gt mlSerialPrintingindex 1 i mlSerialPrintingStatus on Serial Port Select mlSerialPrintingBytes mlSerialPrintingActiveProtocol none Figure 10 6 Mouse Selections for the Serial Port 10 3 6 Parallel Port When a parallel port icon is clicked information for that port is displayed Left and right mouse clicks display different information Figure 10 7 Left Button Right Button Parallel Port Select Parallel Port Select Port Number i Port Number B Status OnLine Test Page postscript M Mode standard M Cable detached Data Setup 255 Bytes 0 Strobe Delay 1 Protocol Active none Figure 10 7 Mouse Selections for the Parallel Port 10 4 Configuration Sub menus Options are available from the Configuration sub menu This section 10 4 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers discusses those options ort Windows Application Untitled Ol x IP Configuration IP Address Properties FEPFILTER Configuration gt Enable RARP LPD Configuration Enable BOOTP Novell Config General Config Ethertalk Config gt Restricted Hosts gt Ta gt Enable IP Traps SMB Config IP Trap Hosts NetBIOS Config gt v vi Figure 10 8 TCP IP Configuration Selection There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server on a TCP IP networks The following is a hierarchy of the choices that can be selected To open each selection use t
2. Flash Upload File To flash upload Step 1 Choose the firmware file Browse Step 2 Click here to begin flash upload Upload Flash Now The device will be automatically reset after flash upload intemet zone Figure C 2 Flash Upload 4 When the Flash Upload File menu screen displays enter the name of the file and click on the appropriate button to begin the flash upload MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers G 3 G 6 Flash Upload Enable Disable Command This command will Enable Disable flash loading via network Access the flash upload command in one of the following ways e Make a serial port connection and run the serial monitor e For DOS machines use the telnet monitor The flash upload command is e F Enable Disable firmware load Issuing this command displays the following response Flash load is currently enabled Disable yes or no y or n MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix H Telnet Serial Console Options H 1 Configuration Commands Commands e C Set console mode e D Display summary configuration parameters e F Enable disable firmware load e I Display set IP Address e L Limit console network access by password e N Network Protocols menu e P Display set parallel port parameters e S Display set serial port parameters e R Reset the unit e Z Reset NVRAM to factory defaults e T Select test page format e Print ASCII test page e Print Postscript test
3. Figure 2 3 Select BOOTPtab File 4 To add a new entry to the BOOTPtab file click Add Entry to BOOTPtab File from the File pull down window BOOTP Server File Help RESET ASSIGNMENT HISTORY Add Entry To Bootptab File x Host Name Hardware Address IP Address Boototab File Browse Cancel Figure 2 4 Add Entry to BOOTPTab File 5 To add a node with an Ethernet address of 0040C8XXXX02 and an IP address of 199 86 11 1 enter 00 40 C8 XX XX 02 in the Hardware Address box and 199 86 11 1 in the IP Address box Note The host name is user selectable 6 Click Ok Add entries for each field 2 6 3 Setting the IP address using BOOTP on HP UX 1 Log in as root on the system 2 Start SAM by typing sam amp Press return 2 6 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 5 6 7 8 Use a text editor to open the etc hosts file Add the following line Type 192 115 2 1 alpha and save the file From the Networking menu select Communication From this menu select Device Connectivity From the Boot Protocol menu select Actions Select Add And add the following information BOOTP Device Name lt specify the hostname of the device gt Internet address lt specify the IP address of the device gt Subnet address lt specify the subnet mask gt Station Address hex lt specify the hardware address gt Boot file name l
4. Browsing and printing features of SMB over TCP IP are identical to SMB over NetBEUI To use SMB over NetBEUI on Windows clients peer to peer environment 1 Verify that a The network settings on the workstation include the NetBEUI MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 1 protocol and it is set as the default protocol b The SMB or Windows Network Client services are bound to the NetBEUI protocol This should have been done by default when the protocol was first installed onto the system 2 For Windows programs refer to Printing from Windows for Workgroups 3 11 on page 3 13 Printing from Windows NT 3 5x on page 3 14 Printing from Windows 95 98 or Windows NT 4 x via SMB on page 3 14 This section describes how to install a logical Windows printer that will send print jobs to the print server 3 For both DOS and Windows programs refer to Printing From NetBEUI supported DOS Workstation on page 3 21 This section describes how to use the net use command which redirects the LPT ports to the print server 4 To configure a system to perform local spooling refer to Spooling Versus Non Spooling Printing on page 3 22 Configuration on this section is now complete 3 1 2 WIN 2000 3 1 2 1 SMB 1 Select Setting and Printer 2 Select Add Printer Click Next MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 Select Network Printer option and click Next Add P
5. From the Parameters pull down window select Discovery Parameters Options include e Enable IP This option enables the IP protocol If not FastManage will not perform any SNMP over IP operation This protocol is checked if IP was selected during setup e Use DNS If the Use DNS is checked and the IP Net BIOS protocols are all enabled FastManage may be unable to resolve a NetBIOS name for example SNMPA0702CA Turn the Use DNS option Off if this is the case e The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Not checked by default e Poll IP Range If this selection is selected the software polls all 254 hosts of the subnet from X Y Z 1 to X Z 254 The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default e Do IP Broadcast If this parameter is chosen the software performs discovery through SNMP over IP broadcast The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default e Every If this parameter is enabled and a time is set the software broadcasts every lt n gt seconds to discover new devices The Enable IP option must be selected to enable this option Not checked and 120 seconds are the defaults e Times If this is enabled and a time is set this option sets the number of times FastManage broadcasts before giving up finding a node Enable IP must be
6. Name of printer on that machine field Type name in all lower case letters 11 Click OK 3 2 3 Printing from Windows NT 4 0 3 2 3 1 Installing Microsoft TCP IP Printing Services TCP IP printing is not a default service on NT To print to the print server via TCP IP do the following to add TCP IP printing services 1 2 3 4 5 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 From Start select gt Settings gt Control Panel Select the Network icon Select Services and click Add Select Microsoft TCP IP Printing and click Ok Reboot the PC Installing a Printer on Windows NT 4 0 From Start select gt Settings gt Printers Click on Add Printer Click on My Computer Click Next MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 24 5 Click on Add Port gt LPR Port gt New Port 6 In the Name or address of server providing lpd field enter the print server s IP address 7 In the Name of printer or print queue on that server field enter in the pre defined queue name from Table 5 1 page 5 5 in Chapter 5 If a remote queue was added enter the queue name The queue name must be typed in lower case 8 Click Close and click Next 9 Select a printer from the list and click Next 10 Enter in a new printer name and click Next 11 Select whether or not the printer will be shared Skip to Step 19 if the printer is not shared 12 Click Next and enter a share name 13 Select the approp
7. tree where the print server s server and print queues are defined The name entered must be a valid Tree The field is blank by default gt Preferred DS Context Sets the context where the print server s server and print queues are defined The name entered must be a valid Tree or Context The field is blank by default The Context entry is required for NetWare NDS users MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers D 1 3 Print Server Config gt Queue Scan Rate Sets the rate times per second that the print server scans the Novell queue for print jobs valid numbers are between 1 6 Default is 1 e gt Frame Type Selects NetWare s frame type Figure D 2 Default is Autosensing 1802 2 SNAP Figure C 2 Frame Type Options e Configuration Server Is the server where the print server s bindery configuration file resides The field blank by default Notification Enabling this parameter allows the print server to send status to users on the Notify list Default is Disabled 4 File Server Config Enables user s to configure a Novell files server Select a files server and then configure using the available options Figure D 3 Note You need supervisor equivalent rights to create delete rename and or change the password of a file server Configure Novell File Server x Primary Novell Server ALTHEA ET il H Fastport Print Server Create Delete Rename Operator
8. 3 1 9 2 Net Use e NET USE LPT1 FPfeed05 SERIAL This redirects printing from the LPT1 port to the serial port on the print server e NET USE LPT1 D This deletes the redirect that is stops the redirection to the print server Note During configuration a dialog box may appear saying The printer that you ve connected to doesn t have a driver for that printer This is normal the print server does not know how to format the data for the printer Formatting is done on the workstation before being sent to the print server 3 1 10 Spooling Versus Non Spooling Printing 3 1 10 1Introduction NetBEUI machines normally support either spooling or non spooling MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 21 printing to network printers Spooling is when a print job is sent to the hard drive as a printable file and is printed in the background while the application returns to a normal state Non spooling is when a print job starts and finishes before the application returns to a normal state The Windows methods described previously are generally non spooling methods One way to tell if a workstation is spooling or not is to print to the same printer twice in a row Open the print manager if both jobs are in the list the system is spooling the print job But if the first print command does not return until the job is printed not printing two jobs in a row the system is non spooling print jobs 3 1 10 2Configuring Windows
9. MIL P3800 Series Print Servers F 1 Helvetica findfont 14 scalefont setfont 30 500 moveto The Options number for the 25 pin port is show statusdict begin 25 sccbatch 10 string cvs show pop showpage end 5 Exit telnet F 1 2 Situation Two Setting Serial Port Options To set the serial port options and display the results send the printer the following PostScript code This text sets the printer mode to 8 bits data mark parity serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin 0 sethardwareiomode end statusdict begin 25 9600 67 setsccbatch end Helvetica findfont 14 scalefont setfont 30 500 moveto The Options number for the 25 pin port is show statusdict begin 25 sccbatch 10 string cvs show pop showpage end This should return the following response The options number for the 25 pin port is 67 F 2 Setup for AppleTalk Please confirm or verify on test page 1 If connecting directly Peer to Peer to a PC Workstation then use a swap cross over cable with 1 3 2 6 3 1 6 2 pinout 2 AppleTalk is enabled Firmware revision must be gt 8 03 3 The print server defaults Phase II is the type of AppleTalk that should be used 4 Is the the print server showing up in the desired AppleTalk Zone especially if the user is using a Router 5 If the printer is in Bi directional mode Firmware revision gt 8 03 then enable bi directional printing on the print server or disable Advanced Functionality Bi
10. MiLAN TECHNOLOGY A Division of Digi International MIL P3800 Series Print Servers CD ROM User s Guide For Legal Click here Introduction and Installation Click here Assigning the IP Address Click here Installing and Printing in a MS Windows and IBM OS 2 Environment Click here Installing and Printing on NetWare Click here Installing and Printing Click here Installing and Printing on an Apple Network Click here Configuration Features of the Print Server Click here FastManage Installation Click here Discovery Application Click here The Print Server Application Click here Ping and BOOTP Server Click here Restoring the Print Server to Factory Defaults Click here Hardware Features Click here Troubleshooting MS Window Click here Troubleshooting Netware Click here Troubleshooting UNIX Click here Troubleshooting AppleTalk Click here Upgrading Flash EEPROMS Click here Telnet Serial Console Options Click here Troubleshooting FastManage Click here Technical Support Services Click here Legal Trademark Rights 2000 MiLAN the MiLAN logo and MiLAN Technology are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Digi International Inc in the United States and or other countries All other trademarks are the
11. work LINK LED L is solid on green light when the print server is connected to the network SYS LED SYS yellow light NET LED P comes on green light about seven seconds after the print server is powered up It is on when a job is active TST Test page button to be used to print a test config page 1 6 installing and Printing Do the following to physically install the MIL P3800 series of print servers and to print a test page Contact MiLAN Technology s LAN technical support if you have problems or questions when installing the print server see Appendix I 1 Record the print server s twelve digit hardware address Ethernet or Mac address The number is located on a label on the bottom of the unit for example 00 40 c8 XX XX XX MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 1 3 2 Attach the network cable to the network port marked as 10 100Mbps The MIL P3800 supports 1OBASE T 100BASE TX and has an RJ 45 connector Use CAT 5 UTP cable 3 Plug the print server P3800 into the printer s port with a parallel printer 4 Connect the power cable SVDC 1A minimum power supply to the print server 5 Check to see if the Link L LED is solid on and 30 seconds later the Net LED is blinking randomly This indicates activity on the network 6 Check to see if the Port LED comes on within 7 seconds 7 Wait for 30 seconds until the Port LED stops blinking 8 Print a test page by pressing the push
12. 2 The network is connected and configured To continue click Next Bae cancel Figure 3 14 Welcome Screen 6 Click Next to go forward 7 Type in Printer Name or IP addresses the Print Server and also the MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Port Name 8 For Port Name any name may be used 9 Click Next to continue 10 Select Custom and click on Setting button Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard c x Additional Port Information Required RS _ The device could not be identified The detected device is of unknown type Be sure that 1 The device is properly configured 2 The address on the previous page is correct Either correct the address and perform another search on the network by returning to the previous wizard page or select the device type if you are sure the address is correct Device Type C Standard x Custom Settings Figure 3 15 Select Custom 11 Select Raw protocol and type in the socket port number in Port Number dialogue box Note Please check your user manual for print servers support socket number e g 2010 for Pari 2011 for Par2 2012 for Par3 2013 for Par4 PORT NUMBER PORT NAMES 2010 Parallel 1 2011 Parallel 2 2012 Parallel 3 2013 Parallel 4 2020 Serial 1 2021 Serial 2 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 11 3 12 Configure Standard TCP IP Port Monitor 199 86 12 107 g 2010
13. 6 Within this file there is a section for each parallel port and separate parameters for each parallel port name time outs bi tronics enable In the section for the particular parallel port to be enabled modify the line that says Enable BiDirectional Interface No change this line to the following Enable BiDirectional Interface Yes Save the file and close the editor MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 7 If the print server is not installed on the network do so now 1 Choose one of the print server parallel ports as it shows up in the Chooser 2 Double click on the Apple Printer Utility 3 When it opens choose Utility and then Download PostScript file 4 When the dialog box opens choose the recently modified setup defaults file The configuration page downloads 5 Reset the print server and print out a test page by pressing the test page switch button 6 Re choose the print server from the Chooser A Mac can now communicate directly with the printer connected to the print server s parallel port 6 6 1 Issues Regarding Bi Directional Macintosh Printing e Bi directional printing may cause slower printing because of the extra queries that go back and forth e Some printers don t support bi directional printing on the parallel port Some Macs with parallel ports do not respond to queries on that parallel port Check the printer s documentation to verify that it supports IEEE 1284 bi dir
14. Command C D F I L N P S R Z T X 3 At the command prompt press C from the selection to set console mode for configuration and status monitoring 4 Press X to exit MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 7 3 7 4 2 3 SYSLOG on the Print Server To monitor and keep status MiLAN Technology supports SYSLOG Enabling this forces the print server to send messages to a designated SYSLOG HOST on the network See Chapter 6 The print server now supports SYSLOG protocol allowing them to alert a SYSLOG host machine to certain events occurring on the print server To enable this on the print server 1 Establish a serial terminal a telnet Once established press N from the main menu Press T for TCP IP Once inside choose Yes to modify parameters 2 3 4 Press E for Engine 5 6 Press L for syslog 7 Enter the IP address of the SYSLOG host and the priority of the message s Priority level are between 2 and 7 These numbers correspond to the types of events that are logged a 2 or 7 Sends critical messages only including paper errors and printer faults b 4 thru 7 Sends both critical and warning notices including start end of a print job or when the IP address is set To disable the feature set the IP address of the SYSLOG host to 0 0 0 0 Default for SYSLOG on the print server is 0 0 0 0 The syslog messages that the print server sends generally get sent to the usr adm LPD e
15. Default Gateway Figure 10 9 Configure IP Address Properties Screen 2 FPFILTER Configuration gt Enable FPFILTER Enables host software services Default Enabled Auxiliary ports Specifies the auxiliary ports for the parallel and serial port printing Default is 0 for each port Note The number of auxiliary ports to configure depends on the number of serial and parallel ports on the the print server 3 LPD Configuration Enables BSD type LPD print services and its options Default All are Enabled 4 Restricted Hosts gt Subnets Limits access to the print server Only hosts in the selected subnet can access the print server Default for Subnet and Mask is 0 0 0 0 Allowed IP Addresses Limits access to the print server Only the hosts with the IP addresses can access the print server Default for all four fields is 0 0 0 0 10 4 2 Novell Config There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server for a Novell network including FastPort Windows Application Untitled Status Help Exit TCP IP Config IPX SAP Name General Config NDS Config gt IPX SAP Interval Ethertalk Config Print Server Config gt MER Enable IPX Traps SMB Config gt IFX Enabled IPX Trap Hosts NetBIOS Config gt Figure 10 10 Novell Config Selections Windows 95 The Novell Config selections include the following each is explained below 10 6 MIL P3800 Ser
16. FastManage runs on the top of public domain packet drivers as well as on the top of ODI drivers IP Configuration 1 Load Packet or ODI drivers for the NIC card MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 8 1 8 2 8 1 4 8 1 5 8 2 8 2 1 Note Note 2 Add the following line to the net cfg file for ODI Drivers Frame Ethernet_II IPX Configuration e Novell 4 1 Drivers for Windows and DOS Refer to the Novell Netware Documentation for information e ODI Driver for the network interface card loaded NetBIOS Configuration NetBIOS over NetBEUI network configuration for Win 3 11 and or Win 95 Win 98 Installing FastManage There are two different modes of installation e Express installation e Custom installation Express Installation Express install is the fastest way of setting up the FastManage software and is recommended for first time users For detailed installation go to Custom Installation on page 8 3 Do the following to install FastManage 1 From Start or File select Run 2 Type d setup exe or the drive where the CD ROM is located on the command line and click OK 3 Register FastManage and click Next 4 Confirm that the registration is correct and click Yes 5 Choose the type of installation In this case select Express Install for first time installation and click Next Go to Section 8 2 2 for Custom Installation or Advanced instructions 6 Choose a network proto
17. Options E Engine options IP address subnet mask RARP BOOTP etc S APPSocket Options L LPD Options X Exit H 7 1 5 1 E engine options e IP address 199 86 12 235 e JP resolution Static e BOOTP request interval 2 hours e Subnet Mask 0 0 0 0 e Default Router 0 0 0 0 e Syslog Host 0 0 0 0 e Syslog Priority 3 e Modify yes or no y or n H 7 1 5 2 S AppSocket Options e TCP Sockets fpfilter enabled e Auxilliary TCP port for parallel 0 e Auxilliary TCP port for serial 0 e Modify yes or no y or n H 7 1 5 3 L LPD Options e LPD enabled e LPD mode Timeout on printer error after 80 seconds Output Control D at end of job on Postscript queues MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers H 5 e Output FF at end of job on ASCII queues e Print banner page e User defined queues None e Modify yes or no y or n H 8 P Display Set Parallel Port Parmameters Current Parallel port config e setup strobe us parallel port mode e 1 0 Compatibility e Select data setup strobe width in microsec 1 0 5 2 1 0 3 2 0 4 4 0 5 5 0 6 10 0 lt enter gt don t change continue e Select parallel port mode 1 Compatibility 2 Nibble 3 Byte 4 ECP lt enter gt don t change continue e New Parallel port config e setup strobe us parallel port mode e 1 0 Compatibility H 9 S Display set Serial Port P
18. Pinging 199 86 12 235 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 199 86 12 235 bytes 32 time 2ms TTL 64 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Chapter 3 Installing and Printing in a MS Windows and IBM OS 2 Environment Chapter 3 provides detailed instructions on configuring and printing with MS Windows and IBM OS 2 clients 3 1 Printing From a NetBEUI Workstation 3 1 1 Introduction The P3800 series of print servers native printing from Windows and IBM NetBEUI clients using SMB over NetBEUI and or TCP IP protocol SMB over TCP IP has some advantages compared to SMB over NetBEUI NetBEUI is okay for small peer to peer networks but is not routable whereas IP is completely routable However to use SMB over TCP IP across multiple sub networks it is necessary to configure the WINS server to resolve names A WINS server serves as a central repository of names so that the client can locate services across the network The MIL P3800 print server automatically uses SMB over TCP IP whenever the TCP IP stack is up TCP IP stack is not up if the proper IP address is not assigned or if the print server cannot dynamically obtain one using DHCP To use SMB over TCP IP on the windows clients 1 Bind Microsoft Network Client to the TCP IP protocol in the Setup Network menu 2 Make sure that Microsoft Network Client is not bound to the NetBEUI protocol The MIL P3800 print server uses SMB protocol over both TCP IP and NetBEUI simultaneously
19. Select R from the available commands to reboot the unit For serial parallel port monitoring ASCII data is sent to the device describing the actions occurring 7 3 1 Webserver Configuration Status monitoring The webserver can be used to configure the product and view the status Access the device with the URL http lt IP addres of the print server gt and the menu screen displays MiLAN TECHNOLOGY View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support www milan com Firmware Version Boot Version Ethernet Address 8 0 14 Date Time May 24 2000 11 06 04 14 Date Time Mar 28 2000 16 57 43 00 40 C8 07 OF C5 IP Address 199 86 12 104 Device Status _Reftesh Parallel Port 1 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 1 Parallel Port 2 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 2 Serial Port 1 No job active on serial port 1 Serial Port 2 No job active on serial port 2 ial Intemet zone Vi Figure 2 1 Print Server Messages on activity in the parallel and serial port e Click on the View Configuration link to to view configuration parameters e Click on the Configure link to proceed with configuring the print server on the appropriate platform e Click on the Setup Password link to set a password that can be used to control web and telnet access to the device e Click on the Support link to access the MiLAN sup
20. box and 199 86 11 1 in the IP Address box Note The host name is user selectable 5 Click Ok Add entries for each field MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 11 3 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix A Restoring the Print Server to Factory Defaults A 1 Restoring by Console Option 1 Establish a serial or telnet connection refer to chapter 2 to get the console menu screen 2 Press and later select Y to enter the config menu From the available commands press Z to reset nvram to factory defaults Note An option to reset the IP address appears Select to do so 4 After NVRAM write is done press R to end the console session and reboot the print server A 2 Restoring by Webserver 1 Access the the print server with the URL http lt IP address of the print server gt 2 Click on the configure link and the following screen displays Y p TECHNOLOGY ANWAR T View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support Firmware Version 8 0 14 Date Time May 24 2000 11 06 04 Boot Version AA Date Time Mar 28 2000 16 57 43 Ethernet Address 00 40 C8 07 OF C5 IP Address 199 86 12 104 Device Status _ Refresh Parallel Port 1 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 1 Parallel Port 2 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 2 Serial Port 1 No job active on serial port 1 Serial Port 2 No job active on serial port 2 ial Intenet zon
21. print server all its printer ports display Double click on a printer port and that print server Printer name MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 13 3 14 will be displayed in the path field above Workgroups is configured to print for the print server once the fields are filled in and the drivers for the printer are loaded 3 1 4 Printing from Windows NT 3 5x 1 2 3 9 Open the Print Manager Choose Printer Click Connect to from the menu A window displays a list of all network devices Double click on the workgroup where the print server is located Double click on the print server one only Double click on its displayed port service where the printer is connected A Select Driver dialog appears Choose a name for the printer Choose the driver for the printer that is connected to the print server port The Printer Setup dialog box displays Change any of the desired printer specific settings 10 Choose OK Windows NT systems is now configured to print to the print server 3 1 5 Printing from Windows 95 98 or Windows NT 4 x via SMB Note 1 2 This installation requires the print server firmware 6 1 or higher Open Network Neighborhood Choose the workgroup where the print server is located Double click on the print server The print server appears as FPXXXXXX where XX XX XX is the last six digits of the MAC address MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 Double click the po
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23. use the Apple Printer utility to download a configuration file containing the new IP address Note ARP and RARP do not work if the RARP server or a system using ARP is connected through a router on a different subnet from the print server 2 2 Setting an IP Address with Install Script 1 Use TAR to get the files from the CD ROM MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 2 1 2 Run the unpack sh command This launches install sh which assigns an address from Installation Options 3 Choose Configure a New Print Server Install sh asks for the IP addresses edits applicable files and assigns an IP address Refer to examples install doc for a sample session 2 3 Setting the IP Address using Telnet on UNIX Note Telnet only works if a device is on the same subnet as the host 1 To set an IP address using telnet use a text editor to open the etc hosts file and add the following line 192 115 2 1 alpha Save this file 2 Enter the following at the command prompt This sets static ARP C gt arp s lt print server s IP gt lt print server s Mac address gt Example C gt arp s 199 86 12 1 00 40 c8 33 23 12 Note The assigned IP address must be on the same local subnet as UNIX 3 Make a telnet connection Type telnet lt IP address of the print server gt and press return Ifa connection is successful ol Telnet 199 86 12 235 Connect Edit Terminal Help astPort II Console Type S to disp
24. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Delete Delete at_ Show Tropa ox Cancel Figure 9 5 Node Properties To view this menu from the pull down menu select Show node properties from the Window pull down menu e To change a nodes name a Click once on the desired node The line is highlighted and the current name appears on the right hand side of the screen Unless given a name UNKNOWN is displayed b Enter a name into the box The new name now appears in the node property field e To make a device invisible deselect the Visible box Again located on the right hand side of the menu e Click on Show Traps to display traps for a device For this function to work on this parameter your system must be designated to receive trap See Chapter 10 for more information on Traps page 10 4 Click OK when you are finished MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 7 9 4 10 SNMP Fault Trace From the Window menu select SNMP Fault Trace to be On or Off default There are times when an SNMP session cannot be opened because of a variety of errors When this happens an error message appears With this option selected the software counts the times that error occurred without displaying the error message The number of times the error occurred is displayed on the status bar Figure 9 6 Note This only works if IPX is enabled in the General Parameters under the Parameters pull down menu SNMPAOG
25. 1 Introduction When using Novell NetWare s client utilities refer to NetWare s docs Identify whether the print server will be installed in a b a NetWare 3 x bindery environment or NetWare 4 x NDS environment To install the print server in a 3 x bindery mode the steps include Creating a print server and print queue object on the NetWare server then binding the two together Creating a config file that describes the file server and print queue to be serviced Store this file on the preferred server sys login milan directory as FPXXXXXX where XXXXXX are the last six digits of the MAC address Storing the name of the server in NVRAM so it knows where to search for its configuration file Do this with FastManage in Win 95 98 2000 NT 4 0 environment To install in a NetWare 4 x NDS the steps include a Creating a print server printer and print queue in the NDS database using either NWADMIN or PCONSOLE Storing tree context where the print server object was created in NVRAM This can be done with FastManage or most other MiLAN Technology configuration utilities Once configuration is done power cycle the print server Wait for 1 2 minutes to allow it to login To use PCONSOLE to verify that the print server has logged in a b Run PCONSOLE and choose one of the queues created Choose Currently Attached Print Servers MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 1 4 2 6 The p
26. 2 1 to configure the general parameters Discovery Parameters and click Next Refer to section 8 2 2 2 to configure the discovery parameters MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 8 3 e SNMP Agent Parameters and click Next Refer to section 8 2 2 3 to configure the SNMP agent parameters e Maximum Retry Time and click Next Default is 5 Configure Advanced Parameters Use Discovery Parameters to configure the Discovery related paratmeters Use SNMP Agent Parameters to configure the SNMP Agent related parameters General Parameters SNMP Agent Parameters Maximum Retry Time aa a Figure 8 2 Configuring Advanced Parameters 8 2 2 1 General Parameters The General Parameters has more options to configure DISPLAY Show Node Address p FILES Default Map File AUTOMATIC OPERATIONS W Load Saved Maps Map File Path F Save Map On Ext Browse IV Save Parameters On Exit Hosts File Path CAETC _ Browse R hE 60 enone zl Se Bootptab File Path A po z j puou ms et C FM Browse Dead eH unicasts z M Allow To Edit hosts File wait Lf see Default Cancel Figure 8 3 General Parameters e Show Node Name If selected this parameter displays a host name for all the devices discovered FastManage needs a hosts file in the C ETC directory for a host name to be displayed Checked by default e Show Node Address If this selection is
27. Add a host name and hardware address on a single line a device named alpha with an address 192 115 2 1 enter 192 115 2 1 alpha Save the file 3 Create a bootptab in the ete directory To do this type lt hostname of the print server gt ht 1 ha lt hardware addr gt ip lt ip addr gt 4 Start the BOOTP daemon by typing usr etc bootp 5 Power cycle the print server It will broadcast the BOOTP packets obtain a response and then use the IP address specified in etc bootptab 2 6 2 Setting the IP address with BOOTP on Windows The BOOTP application implements a BOOTP server which allow users to assign IP addresses dynamically to devices on the network MiLAN Technology s network devices implement BOOTP and can obtain an IP address from BOOTP BOOTP looks for the right entry containing the IP and hardware address of the device To launch the BOOTP server in Windows 1 Double click on the BOOTP Server icon 2 Figure 2 3 may appear Select Browse to find this file 3 BOOTP needs a BOOTPtab file usually in the etc directory to operate MiLAN Technology provides an empty BOOTPtab file with FastManage When this file appears in the field click OK to MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 2 5 continue The BOOTP Server menu appears Select Bootptab file Bootptab file could not be found This file is needed for Bootp Server to work properly Bootptab file C ETC bootptab
28. B 1 B 3 LED Indications in NVRAM Reset Mode LED indications for these products are exactly the same as for MIL 3700 products However when a 38XX is in NVRAM Reset Mode SYS IED blinks slowly once every 2 seconds to indicate that the product is ready for nvram reset NVRAM reset is performed by toggling SW1 at least 5 times Then NVRAM is reset to its factory default state and SYS LED blinks faster to indicate the completion of NVRAM reset process The user is advised to set dip switches to normal mode and pwoer the cycle unit B 4 Network Mode Always Allows Serial Console Mode Using the Command In normal mode with or without telnet enabled the user can enable the serial console mode using the command on the serial port labeled S1 cfg The user should wait for the print server to boot before attempting the command The user may utilize the serial console mode non network mode first to verify the correct serial cabling B 5 Serial Port Connector Table B 1 Serial Port Connectors B 6 RJ 45 Connector B 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Table B 2 RJ 45 Connectors B 7 Parallel Port Connector Table B 7 Parallel Port Connectors B 8 Environmental Operating Conditions Table B 8 Envoronmental Operating Conditions Parameters Minimum Maximum Operating Temperature 45 C 40 C Humidity Non condensing 10 95 Altitude test NA 40 000 ft at 40 C Tempe
29. DLL WINSNMP Error ld This appears when you are unable to send Use Ping to find out if the SNMP agent device is alive Yes restart Windows No power cycle and try again 1 2 General Problems Table I 2 General Problems Problem Solution SNMP community strings are defaulted to public and private Change the community strings in issnmp ini Unable to start FastManage A message such as Unable to start protocol stack displays Restart Windows FastManage doesn t display connected ports or SNMP statistics Restart Windows Verify firmware is compatible Cannot start applications and the message IP_STACK section issnmp ini file needs IPADDR set appears Reinstall FastManage with IP and IPX protocols Message Unable to find and start net driver appears Load IPX drivers before starting Windows During Discovery Message No Netware connections found or Host not in IPX bindery appears Load VLM EXE before starting Windows I 3 IP address Validation Messages Table I 3 IP Address Validation Messages Message Solution More than 3 dots exist in the address A valid IP address is in the form of a b c d where a b c d can vary from 0 to 255 For example 199 86 12 235 No characters present between dots A valid IP address is in the form of a b c d where a b c d can vary from 0 to 255 For example 199 86 12 235 Invalid ch
30. Option Default is in Parenthesis Option Choice Description EtherTalk Phase T or 2 AppleTalk revision level Appear Inthe Yes Sense orNo No Parallel printer always shows up in the Chooser regardless of Chooser whether there is a printer connected Yes the print server senses whether a parallel printer is connected If one is it shows up in the Chooser Turn off the Yes Sense or No Yes Serial port does not show up in the Chooser Serial port No Serial port shows up in the Chooser whether or not there is a printer connected to the serial port Parallel port No Binary or Binary Parallel port type is based on the traffic type and whether or not the port type adobe or Binary hp is handling Binary PS Serial Port Parameters Type No Binary or Binary Serial type is based on the traffic type and whether or not the port is adobe or Binary hp handling Binary PostScript Stop bits 1 or 2 Number of stop bits required Speed 300 600 1200 2400 Transmission speed in bps 4800 9600 19200 38400 6 4 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Table 6 1 Option Default is in Parenthesis Interface Option Choice Description Parity Yes or No Use of parity bit checking Xon Yes or No Use of Xon Xoff for flow control Network Protocols Enabled Sockets Yes or No LPD Yes or No NetWare Yes or No EtherTalk Yes or No Operational Pa
31. SNMP options T TCP IP AppSockets LPD RARP BOOTP DHCP options X Return to Main Menu H7 1 1 A AppleTalk Options AppleTalk enabled AppleTalk Phase 2 Default zone name Parallel port printer name FPDEADOS5S par printer always in chooser HP PostScript binary enabled delay before reset 15 sec delay after reset 45 sec Serial port MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers H 3 e printer name FPDEADO5 ser e printer always in chooser e PostScript binary disabled H 7 1 2 Microsoft Windows Options e Microsoft Windows print services enabled e Workgroup Domain WORKGROUP e Machine Name FPDEADO5 e WINS Ip Address 0 0 0 0 e Sharename SERIAL1 Password Description Serial Port 1 Serial Port 2 e Sharename PARALLEL1 Password Description Parallel Port 1 Parallel Port 2 Parallel Port 3 Parallel Port 4 e Modify yes or no y or n H 7 1 3 N Netware Options e Netware enabled e Print Server name used in SAP packets FPfeed05 e Auto sense frame type e Primary server Corina e Notification disabled e Queue scan rate 2 sec e PServer mode Bindery amp NDS e Tree name e Context e Modify yes or no y or n H 7 1 4 S SNMP Options e Current SNMP Trap Hosts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers GET Community String is public SET Community String is private e Modify yes or no y or n H 7 1 5 TCP IP Sockets LPD RARP BOOTP TFTP
32. User Notify List Change Password Exit Figure C 3 Configure Novell File Server Menu e Queue Config Enabling this parameter to configure a specific queue D 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Note You need supervisor equivalent rights for some of the options Queue Management Tool x FP0C2779 Dettach ueue Test Print User Uperator Figure C 4 Queue Config Menu MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers D 3 Appendix E Troubleshooting UNIX E 1 Introduction If there are problems printing to the print server while using UNIX 1 Verify that the print server is connected and powered on correctly 2 Verify that the LEDs are flashing See Chapter 1 for LED functions If the unit checks out continue with the examples below E 2 Troubleshooting Tips The following examples assume that alpha is the hostname for the unit and that the host software is loaded in the directory usr local milan E 2 1 ASCII Text File Prints as a Single Line UNIX does not send a carriage return and a line feed as line terminators but does send a line feed When printing ASCII text files from UNIX using host software on a BSD system 1 Go to the spool directory usr spool lt name of printer gt on a BSD machine 2 Add maperlf to the fpconfig file If the last page does not get ejected e Add formfeed to the fpconfig file If an extra blank page comes out at the end of a print j
33. and select Y to enter the config menu 10 Use the I command to assign a static IP address and the R command to reset the device Using Appletalk to Assign an IP Address Download the Setup Defaults file and the Apple Printer Utility from the Appletalk portion of the CD ROM See Chapter 6 for more information on the Apple Printer Utility To assign the IP address using Appletalk 1 Double click on the SetUp Defaults file to edit it 2 Scroll down and select the IP address option under General Parameters Change the values of the IP address in parentheses Remove the sign before the IP Address option Warning Do not edit the top three lines of the file 3 Save the changes and quit the editor MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Open the Apple Printer Utility Select Download Postscript File from the Utilities Select Setup Defaults that were just modified When the file has downloaded quit the utility el ee Power cycle the print server These settings are stored in NVRAM and remain there until changed Note if there is an error the postscript log returned by the utility contains an error message To avoid errors do not add extra spaces in the setup default file other than the options shown in the parentheses 2 10 Verifying IP Address is Set Properly To see if the print server is up and running on the network use the ping command type ping lt ip address gt The ping command displays
34. appears The following is a description of each hot spot 10 3 1 Traps Traps list any problem affecting the device Problems include either hardware or software Users can also view traps through the Show Node Properties menu in the Discovery Application refer to section 10 4 9 Click once on the hot spot If there are no problems the following appears FastPort Windows Application N There are no traps to be shown for this device Figure 10 3 Traps Hot Spot To view a trap you must tell the system to notify you when a trap occurs This means for any specific device that you want to be notified you must set up trap notification first To set up trap notification 1 From the Configuration pull down menu select TCP IP Config gt IP Configuration gt IP Traps gt IP Traps Hosts 10 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Note Refer to section 10 4 1 for information on the TCP IP Config sub menu s options The following screen appears IP Trap Hosts Ea IP Trap Host 1 199 86 12 33 IP Trap Host 2 0 0 0 0 Close Figure 10 4 IP Traps Manager 2 Enter your host address into the IP Trap Host 1 line and click Set FastManage now notifies you when a trap occurs Now click the Traps hot spot the software will list all traps found View Traps received from the device List of traps for the host 199 86 12 177 Device Time Date when Type of Trap Enterprise OID of Extra
35. binary conversion for non binary printers The fpfilter software supports Adobe TranScript command line arguments To use these options rename fpfilter as e fpcomm Print to parallel port e fpcomm_s Print to serial port When no P is given fpfilter uses the directory for its name If the directory for alpha is usr spool the print server it tries the print server as the host name and prints with LPR or LP fpfilter P alpha m f etc hosts MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 9 5 5 2 Printer Options File fpconfig fpconfig can be used instead of command line option This simple text file can be modified using an ASCII text editor fpfilter checks the directory specified by the D command if it is not present it checks the current directory for the fpconfig file If present it changes the fpfilter behavior fpfilter is executed by the spooling when using LPR fpfilter s directory is not that of the users fpfilter is the spool directory Syntax is shown in Table 5 3 on page 5 10 Entries appear in any order Table 5 3 fpconfig Options fpfilter Option Function hostname lt name gt Specify the IP name for the print server seriall or serial 2 Send to the serial port ctrld formfeed Send a Control D before and after the job PostScript only Send a form feed after the job parallel 1 parallel 2 or parallel 3 Send to the parallel port mapcrlf Map line feeds
36. can now select the printer and print to it To configure a Remote LPR Printer in NetWare you need to provide the following items in the Configure Port handler for Printer Agent wizard e IP address or host name of the print server e A remote printer name one of the pre defined types of queues listed below Table 5 1 LPD Queue Names Predefined LPD Queue Name Description Taw Sends data with no header and no translation ascil ascii_landscape Writes data as ASCII Sends a text banner and a final formfeed Both of these can be sup pressed through the telnet monitor Writes data as ASCII Sets the printer in land scape mode before printing MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 10 Table 5 1 LPD Queue Names Predefined LPD Queue Name Description pel Assumes the data is PCL and sends a text ban ner No carriage returns are added and a form feed is sent at the end of the job unless suppressed via the monitor pcel_landscape Same as PCL but sends the printer in land scape mode before sending the print job ps Writes data as postscript Sends a PostScript banner page at the end of the print job Both of these can be suppressed via the telnet mon itor 4 5 Configuring in a Bindery and NDS Environment The print server can operate in a mixed Bindery NDS environment Use one of the previous methods to install it Adhere to the following rest
37. checked FastManage displays IP and IPX addresses for all the devices discovered Not checked by default MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Load Saved Maps If this parameter is selected the software loads the saved Map when starting the Discovery Application Checked by default Save Maps On Exit If this parameter is selected the software saves the Map when Discovery Application is exited Checked by default Save Parameters On Exit If selected this option saves preferences when Discovery is exited Checked by default Refresh every This selection refreshes the Map every lt n gt seconds Default 60 seconds Discover This selection re discovers hosts every lt n gt seconds Default 90 seconds Dead This selection is the number of attempts the software makes before marking the node as dead Default 2 Wait This selection signifies the amount of time the software waits for a reply from a node Default 1 second Default Map This selection will enter the name of the default Map file map map Map File This selection will enter the path for the Map files Default c fm Hosts File This selection enters the path for the host file Default C ETC Bootptab File Path This selection enters the path for the bootptab file Default C FM Allow To Edit Hosts File If selected Discovery updates the hosts file if a new host file is discovered Checked by default Default I
38. has been enabled 5 7 Additional UNIX Utilities Using pstext and NeWSprint ASCII files must be converted to PS format before being printed NeWSprint and MiLAN s pstext perform ASCII to PostScript conversion Pstext is located in the software disk in binary source code forms For NeWSprint information contact the MiLAN LAN technical support via our FTP site or by phone 5 8 Deleting Printers Run the install sh and select Option 4 to delete a printer Note Log in as root to use this option 5 18 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Chapter 6 Installing and Printing on an Apple Network Chapter 6 describes installation and configuration of the print server to print from Apple environments using the AppleTalk printing protocol 6 1 6 1 1 Introduction to the Apple Workstation EtherTalk Features Support for both EtherTalk Phase 1 and Phase 2 Operation in multi zone networks Indirect printing support for LocalTalk networks connected via routers to Ethernet networks Simultaneous printing to all ports Support for Apple LaserWriter drivers versions 6 0 and up including the setup function of the LaserWriter Printer 8 0 Support for Apple Namer and Apple Printer Utility Supports Aldus drivers and Plug and Play installation Support for a serial or centronics parallel port style printer Utilities for changing the print server s default settings such as IP address font list serial and parallel port parameter
39. mode and press i to assign an IP address 11 Press r to issue a command to reset the print server 12 Continue to step 7 to install the printer 13 At the main menu select Option 2 Install a printer or plotter The software prompts for a Whether to install host software or use direct LPD MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers b Type of data sent to the printer pcl ps or ascii c Where the printer port is connected to serial or parallel d Type of banner page Select Option X to Exit BSD installation is complete 5 4 Manual Installation on LPD Systems Printing to LPD allows users to print as if they were directly attached to a remote UNIX system Configuration requires assigning an IP address and setting up a remote BSD UNIX like printer Digi provides an install script to configure UNIX for the print server UNIX systems that support LPD include BSD UNIX systems System V Release 4 machines IBM HP or DEC mainframe machines that run TCP IP 5 4 1 Getting Started on an LPD System 1 Install the print server on the network and assign it an IP address 2 Verify that LPD and fpfilter socket is enabled Two items are required to configure an LPD printer Remote system name device s host name or IP address Remote printer queue name a queue listed in Table 5 1 5 4 2 Pre defined Queue Names Table 5 1 Printer Queue Types Printer Types Description Taw Sends data with no header
40. page e X Exit H 2 C Set Console Mode for configuration amp status monitoring Console mode options 1 Off 2 Serial Network 3 Network only lt enter gt don t change continue H 3 D Display Summary Configuration Parameters MIL P3800 Series ofPrint Servers H 1 Command C D E F H I L N P R S Z X gt D the print server II Model MIL P3800 Boot version 1 0 Jul 9 1999 14 48 19 Firmware version 8 0 3 Aug 13 1999 14 58 37 Ethernet address 00 40 C8 DE AD 05 IP address 199 86 12 235 Console mode Serial Network Admin password security disabled TCP Sockets fpfilter enabled LPD enabled Netware enabled Microsoft Windows print services enabled AppleTalk enabled Serial port config Baud Data Stop Parity Flow 9600 8 1 None Xon Xoff Use N command to configure network protocol parameters H 4 F Enable Disable Firmware Load Flash load currently is enabled Disable yes or no y or n n H 5 I Display set IP Address current IP address 199 86 12 235 Enter new IP address lt cr gt for no change H 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers H 6 L Limit monitor Network Access by Password Admin password security is currently Off Admin Security 1 Off 2 On New Password lt enter gt don t change continue H 7 Microsoft Windows Options H 7 1 Network Protocols Menu A AppleTalk options M Microsoft Windows print services options N Net Ware options S
41. print server on an IBM AIX system This modifies the ete gconfig file to add a printer entry and specifies using rembak for remote spooling To install 1 Ifnot already done so load the install sh software 2 Type install sh to run the install script 3 Select a the print server by its model number 4 Choose Option 2 qdaemon based systems MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 3 5 If not already done so assign an IP address to the print server by selecting Option 1 Configure a the print server 6 Choose Option 3 install a Printer or Plotter Enter e Hostname of the print server e Queue name to create e Directory for the back end script e Directory to load the host softwar e e Host naming method e Type of data sent to the printer ASCII Graphics PS or PCL 5 3 4 Installation on BSD UNIX Systems Install sh creates a spool directory and makes a config file usr spool lt printer name gt fpconfig To install 1 Load the install sh software 2 Type install sh to run the install script 3 Choose the print server by its model number 4 Choose Option 1 LPD based systems 5 If an IP address has not been assigned select Option 1 Configure a the print server If one has been go to step 7 6 Choose the following a Host naming method etc hosts file 7 Host name and IP address for the print server 8 Hardware Ethernet address of the print server 9 UNIX system type 10 Enter monitor
42. server has faulted the print server will not advertise the port to the Chooser MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 3 Advanced Utilities The advanced utilities portion of the CD ROM includes e Readme file e Apple TeachText editor for reading the configuration files e Apple Printer Utility version 2 2 e The following files can be downloaded using the utility e Setup Font List file Lists new fonts for the parallel printer e Setup Defaults file Changes the print server configuration e Setup Printer Info file Changes the parallel printer info Copy the contents of these files onto the hard disk 6 3 1 Tips on Using the Configuration File e Always download the config file to the print server s parallel port e If mistakes are made the print server returns it as an error message If there is a log file back after downloading the print server detects this as an error 6 4 Using the Apple Printer Utility for Configuration 6 4 1 Using the Apple Printer Utility to Download a Config Files When an Apple and the print server try to establish a printing session the print server responds with queries on behalf of the printer Sometimes the values that respond are not correct Users can modify these values by using the Apple Printer utility to download config files The print server holds other values not associated with printing that can be changed by modifying the config files This section describes when to modify these config
43. setting for the parallel port when printing to impact printers Define the printer by using sysadm Device gt Printer gt Devices gt Add 1 Enter the printer name for example laser Printer name laser Add a connection remote to networked printer device Connection type Local dev tty or dev Ip Remote to networked printer device 2 Accept the Quick Add feature by pressing Enter Quick Add using default values yes MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 17 3 Supply a printer type e g DG model 6773 PS printer To view a list of valid printer types type and press Enter Printer type printer 80 PS b 4 Enter an input type For PostScript printers type PS Input types simple PS 5 Enter the interface script name Interface script termprinter the print server 6 Enter the name of the printer device For a list of attached devices check the file etc hosts or use sysadm to list the host names that NIS provides Networked printer device name the print server2 pr 7 Enter the port number of the printer on the network printer server Port numbering for the print server includes 8 Supply a printer description which can include the phone number of the system admin or location of the printer Printer Description Laser Printer on doc hallway 9 Confirm your choices by pressing Enter OK to perform operation yes Press Enter laser has been added Printer laser
44. system maintain two way communication Any printer queries from the Apple system go directly to the printer as they do with a PS printer connected via AppleTalk However the parallel port is uni directional and the print server has one way communication with the printer To correct this the print server answers any queries from the Apple system on behalf of the printer see i Bi directional Printing from Macintosh Systems on page 6 7 The print server must have the appropriate info about the printer to answer the queries correctly Use the Apple Printer utility described in this chapter to modify the parameters Plug amp Play Operation Printing to the Print Server Before printing select the print server connected printer from Chooser 1 From the Apple menu select Chooser 2 If there is a router on the network select the correct zone for the print server 3 Select the LaserWriter icon or any other LaserWriter driver such as LaserWriter 8 0 the print server appears in the LaserWriter selection as FP xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the address 4 Select the print server and click on the setup button to configure a printer 5 Close Chooser The print server s connected printer is now available If the print server does not appear in the LaserWriter selection list then either the print server or its printers are not connected correctly By default if the printer connected to the print
45. t ncr ncr4100 tar ner_650 tar ner_850 tar other_unix inte tar interact tar mot_88 tar next tar sinix tar unixware tar pyramid pyr_4400 tar pyr_9k tar pyr_r3k tar pyr_rmlk tar sco sco3242 tar MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Sun OS 4 1 4 Sun OS 4 1 4 DEC Ultrix w MIPS RISC R2000 R3000 DEC Alpha OSF DEC Alpha Digital UNIX 3 2c OSF DEC Ultrix 5000 240 running 4 3 DEC Ultrix w DEC VAX Data General Aviion DG UX 4 1 1 Data General Aviion DGUX 5 4 2 Data General Aviion DGUX 5 4 3 dynix Dynix 2 PTX Dynix 4 1 4 using Elf format PTX Dynix 4 2 Sequent i386 PTX Dynix 4 3 1 using Elf format HP Systems on Motorola 68000 processors HP 68000 BSD 4 3 10 4 1 10 4 0 8 HP UX 10 10 on HP9000 RISC sys 700 HP UX 9 05 on HP9000 RISC sys 715 HP UX 10 10 on HP9000 RISC sys 800 HP UX 10 20 on HP9000 RISC sys 800 HP UX 9 04 on HP9000 RISC sys E45 800 HP UX 9 x on HP9000 RISC sys 800 H50 HP UX 10 2 on HP9000 RISC sys 800 w PA8000 HP UX on HP9000 RISC sys 810 HP UX on HP9000 RISC sys 835 HP UX 10 01 on HP9000 RISC sys 887 G70 HP UX on HP9000 RISC sys 887 G30 HP UX on HP9000 RISC sys 200 HP UX on HP systems with RISC processors Linux 2 0 Linux 2 0 30 CompuDyne 486DX266 NCR 4100 SVR4 NCR Tower series 650 NCR Tower series 650 SVR4 Integraph systems SunSoftInteractive SVR3 2rel 4 1 Motorola 88 UNIX Next w B50 Siemens Nixdorf Sinix 5 42 System V Unixware System V rel 4 2 1 Nile100 R4400 S
46. 0 To remove the status bar from the field From the Option pull down menu deselect Status bar 9 2 3 System Information Click once on a thumbnail The object selected is highlighted with a box Click on the same object once again and its system information appears 9 3 The Printer Server Icon Names The name or address of a host is displayed below the device in the Map Figure 9 2 Names are based on certain criteria e FPXXXXXxX This device was discovered by the SNMP over IPX protocol where XXXXXX are the last six digits of the Ethernet MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 4 Note address Thus a device with an Ethernet address of 0040C800702CA has an IPX SAP name of FP0702CA SNMPAXXXXXxX This device was discovered by the SNMP over NetBIOS where XXX XXX are the last six digits of the Ethernet address Thus a device with an Ethernet address of 0040C800702CA has a NetBIOS name of SNMPA0702CA The print servers with firmware of 6 1 or higher are required for SNMP over NetBIOS manageability UNKNOWN The device was discovered by the SNMP over IP protocol however there was no entry in the host table relating to this device Add a name in the Show Node Properties menu refer to section 9 4 9 9 4 Discovery Application Tools 9 4 1 Renaming a Discovery Map Maps can be renamed and saved for future use Do the following to rename a Map 1 2 3 Click the Rename Map icon fourth f
47. 2773 SNMPAO7AAC SNMPA00I289 SNMPA0A2BIB SNMPAOZ02FI SNMPA02 Ss FastPort Network Print Sen 4 tries to open IPX session butcan t 45 hosts Odead SNMP Fauk Trace Message Figure 9 6 SNMP Fault Trace Message 9 5 Parameters Pull Down Menu There are a variety of options that can be configured from the Parameters pull down menu including 9 5 1 General Parameters To configure the General Parameters section From the Parameters pull down window select General Parameters Figure 9 7 The 9 8 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers following are its options General Parameters x DISPLAY FILES Default Map File AUTOMATIC OPERATIONS C Show Node Address M Load Saved Maps Map File Path IV Save Map On Exit Browse IV Save Parameters On Exit Hosts File Path CAETC Browse_ Refresh E 60 bet A ee eo So Bootptab File Path i 90 Discover zj 26 C FM Browse Dead 2 unicasts IV Allow To Edit hosts File Wait 1 sec Default Cancel Figure 9 7 General Parameters Menu Show Node Name When this option is selected the software displays host names for all the devices discovered Checked by default Show Node Address When this parameter is chosen FastManage displays IP and IPX addresses for all the devices discovered Not checked by default Load Saved Maps When this option is selected FastManage loads a saved Map when start
48. 3800 Series of Print Servers 5 7 where alpha is the host name of the the print server 3 Use the lpadmin command to add a new printer ust lib lpadmin p lt printer gt s lt host name gt lt remote queue gt where printer is the printer s name host name is the host name and remote queue is a predefined queues Table 5 1 4 Start the print scheduler by entering usr lib lpsched 5 Enable the printer enable lt printer name gt accept lt printer name gt 5 4 7 Manual Installation with LPD on RS 6000 1 Determine the remote system queue Use Rembak for remote spooling 2 Add the print server to the network and assign an IP address to it 3 Edit the etc qconfig file for example test_q device sample host alpha rq ps sample backend usr lib Ipd remback Legend e Queue is test_q e Host file is alpha e Printing to ps From Table 5 1 4 Stop queue services with the following command stopsrc s qdaemon 5 Restart the remote queue using the command startsrc s qdaemon LPR and LP are now set to print to the device Note The qconfig file valid queue names rq may have the same names as used for printer types p 5 8 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 5 Manual Installation Using Host SoftWare fpfilter MiLAN s host software is called pfilter This program sends print jobs to printers connected to the print server in two ways e Command line options e
49. 4 Task Finished 6 Click Finish The following is displayed 3 4 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers a Printers File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Back 7 gt H Qsearch uFolders lt SHistory Gs X Fy Address Printers Printers Printer DocuPri PARALLEL1 on FPO20C0B Documents 0 Status Printer not found on server unable to connect Waiting Time 0 Microsoft Support PARALLEL1 on FPOZOCOB Status Printer not found on server unable to connect Documents 0 a Figure 3 5 Printer Information 3 1 2 2 LPD 1 Select Setting and Printer 2 Click Add Printer Click Next 3 Select Local Printer Click Next MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 6 Add Printer Wizard Local or Network Printer RS i Is the printer attached to your computer ee Ifthe printer is directly attached to your computer click Local printer Ifitis attached to another computer or directly to the network click Network printer C Local printer BM Automatically detect my printer Network printer lt Back Cancel Figure 3 6 Select Printer 4 Select Create New Port Type and Standard TCP IP Port drop down menu click Next Add Printer Wizard E Select the Printer Port RS Computers communicate with printers through ports TS Select the port you want your printer to use Ifthe portis notlisted you can create a new port C Use the following port COM3 Serial Port COM4 Seri
50. 4 usr adm beta errs chown daemon usr adm beta acct chmod 644 usr adm beta acct 5 Create a directory called usr local milan and place the fpfilter program there Or change the path of the input filter if to point to any directory containing fpfilter Make sure that the directory containing fpfilter and fpfilter itself have at least access rights of 755 mkdir usr local milan chmod 755 usr local cp fp usr local milan chmod 755 usr local milan fp 6 Create an options file called fpconfig in the spool directory MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers specified by sd This file should be at least 644 and owned by daemon For a parallel ascii text printer a sample fpconfig file would contain parallel hostname alpha mapcrlf formfeed For a postscript printer on the serial port serial hostname alpha ctrld For a serial plotter serial hostname alpha For a parallel printer which will be used by PC NFS parallel hostname alpha 7 Start the printer and queue by typing the following Ipc start beta 8 You can now print files with the lpr or lp command Ipr Pbeta lt filename gt or Ip dbeta lt filename gt 5 5 5 1 Printing to the print server After installing both hardware and software the print server is ready to print Commonly used BSD print commands include Table 5 4 BSD Print Commands Command Function lpr p lt printer gt lt file gt Print
51. 95 NT to Mimic Spooling 1 From Start select Settings and then Printers to create a printer Click once on the specific printer From the File pull down menu select Properties From the Properties menu select Details Windows 95 From Details select Spool Settings Oi a oe eS ie Windows NT From Scheduling click once on Spool Settings 7 Click on Spool print jobs so program finishes faster to make the printer spooling Click on the Print directly to the printer to make the printer non spooling 3 1 11 DOS and OS 2 To force a printer to spool for DOS or OS 2 LAN Manager LAN Server 1 Open a command prompt box 2 Use the NET USE LPT1 lt the print server gt lt Sharename gt command to redirect an LPT port Print jobs are now spooled When configuring a printer choose the LPT1 port as the printer destination 3 22 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 2 3 2 1 Printing from a TCP IP Workstation Introduction Windows based systems support a variety of protocols such as TCP IP IPX SPX or DLC This section describes installing a print server on Windows workstations or servers with LPD support over TCP IP protocol Before starting make sure of the following An IP address has been added to the print server and that you are able to ping the device see Chapter 2 to assign an IP address 3 2 2 Printing from Windows NT 3 5x Windows 3 5 support
52. 9th LPD connection will not connect 5 4 3 User Defined Queue Names The remote printer name is used by UNIX to tell the print server which port to send a print job Some UNIX systems only support eight character names If so user s can create a remote printer name called user1 To enable this 1 Telnet into the the print server At the main command prompt press N for network Press T for TCP IP or press L for LPD Follow the instructions to add a user defined queue name Os Ge oe Configure the remote printer name on the workstation to be the user defined queue name just created on the print server 5 4 4 LPR Options The number of copy options with LPR is not supported To suppress banner pages for individual print jobs use LPR with the h option or turn off the banner printing via telnet In BSD UNIX systems the suppress header sh option in etc printcap file does not work 5 4 5 Manual Installation With LPD on a BSD UNIX System 5 6 The following installs a printer named beta that is attached to a the print server named alpha When installing LPD replace beta and alpha with your printer s name and host names respectively 1 Copy the following entry into your etc printcap file betalthe print server LPD printer Ip mx 0 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 1f usr adm beta errs af usr adm beta acct sd usr spool beta rm alpha rp ascii Note The rp
53. CO memory config settings when fpfilter uses too much processor time Sparc Solaris 2 x manual installation using fpfilter SVR4 SCO AT amp T Solaris 2 x amp Unixware manual install TCP IP syslog support for the print server System V printing method using lpd System V printing method using lpd Installation on BSD using Adobe Transcript software MiLAN s DLL support for printing from Windows 3 11 Printing to the print server via Windows Native SMB Installation instructions for Win95 98 lpr lpd printing MiLAN s DLL support for printing from Windows 95 98 Printing to the print server via Windows Native SMB Ipr Ipd printing from Windows NT 3 5 J 5 J 6 nt40lpr txt ntapple txt nthpdlc txt win_smb txt Ipr Ipd printing from Windows NT 4 0 printing from windows NT using appletalk Printing from Windows NT using HP DLC protocol Printing to the print server via Windows Native SMB MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers TECHNOLOGY A Division of Digi International 1299 Orleans Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089 Copyright 2000 MiLAN Technology PN 90000203 Rev A Printed in the USA
54. Click Add Printer Click Next 3 Select Local Printer and click Next Add Printer Wizard i i Local or Network Printer RS Is the printer attached to your computer NX Ifthe printer is directly attached to your computer click Local printer If itis attached to another computer or directly to the network click Network printer C Local printer MV Aiitonjatically detect my printer Network printer Cancel Figure 3 12 Select Printer MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 10 4 Select Create New Port Type and Standard TCP IP Port from the drop down menu Click Next Add Printer Wizard Select the Printer Port RS Computers communicate with printers through ports TS Selectthe port you want your printer to use Ifthe portis not listed you can create a new port C Use the following port Pot Description Printer TM COM3 Serial Port COM4 Serial Port FILE Print to File IP_199 66 1 Standard TCP IP Port Xerox DocuPrint 4517 WFPOZ0COB LAN Manager Printer Port v Note Most computers use the LPT1 port to communicate with a local printer Create a new port Type Standard TCP IP Port Figure 3 13 Select Type 5 The starting screen shown below is displayed Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard a xi Welcome to the Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard You use this wizard to add a port for a network printer Before continuing be sure that 1 The device is turned on
55. Figure 3 16 12 Click OK to go to next screen 13 Click Next to select Finish 14 Make sure that you have your printer s driver diskette is ready in case it is needed When it is completed the following screen is displayed MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard xj Completing the Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard You have selected a port with the following characteristics SNMP No Protocol LPR RAW Device 199 86 12 107 Port Name Domi_TCP Adapter Type To complete this wizard click Finish cee conci Figure 3 17 Completion Screen 15 Click Finish to complete the installation 3 1 3 Printing from Windows for Workgroups 3 11 Perform the following to set up the print server to work with MS Windows for Workgroups version 3 11 L 2 From Control Panel double click on the Printer icon Click on the Connect button Click on the Network icon Browse screen displays the print server and other workstations Find the device name and path fields These fields show the local port to redirect and the network device to receive the print job respectively Fill in the path with the print server printer name example FPfeed05 PARALLEL You can also use the window labeled show shared printers on to browse the network When choosing to Browse the network a list of all the shared windows systems in the workgroup appears Double click on the
56. MP ucb compiler Pyramid 9000 Pyramid R3000 OSX Pyramid RM1000 Mesh MPP SCO Sys 3 2 3 242 J 3 J 4 sco5 tar sco502_fpf332 tar sco504 fpf332 tar sgi sgi53_fpf320 tar sgi62_64bit_fpf332 sgi63_fpf332 tar sgi64_fpf332 tar sgi_bsd tar sgi_sysv tar solaris multsun5 tar sun5_24 fpf332 tar sun5_250 tar sun5_250_ fpf331 tar sun5_251_ultra_fpf332 tar X86 27 fpt 332 tar svr3 svr3 tar svr4 attsvr4 tar svr4 tar svr4x86_fpf331 tar unisys uni6k550_fpf332 tar unisys6k tar SCO open Server 5 SCO Open Server 5 0 2 SCO Open Server 5 0 4 SGI Irix 5 3 SVR4 SGI Irix 6 2 64 bit processor SGI Irix 6 3 SGI Irix 6 4 SGI Irix 5 3 BSD SGI Irix on Sys V fpmulti for piping on Solaris 2 x un Solaris 2 4 Sun Solaris 2 5 0 Sun Solaris 2 5 0 Sun Solaris 2 5 1 Sun solaris X86 V2 7 AT amp T System V Rel 3 AT amp T 4 02 two 60mhz P5 EISA Unisys 1 4 AT amp T SVR4 SVR4 x86 Unix Unisys 6000 550 SVR4 Unisys 6000 486x2 SVR4 J 7 Support Documents Available The following documents are currently available as readme files on the ftp milan com site The ftp site is constantly updated File Name pub fastport docs assignip act txt netbios txt nt40DHCP txt serial txt unixarp txt winarp txt general burnin txt flash txt license txt printers txt protocol txt serial txt watranty txt mac config txt Description assigning ip address from macintosh environment assigning ip address using bootp ass
57. PTURE S raisa Q Ip1 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 11 4 12 Or use NPRINT to print to the print server NPRINT myfile S raisa Q lp1 4 7 Printing Specific File Formats If you are having difficulty printing postscript files using binary emulation review section 4 5 Add b ps in the FPXXXXXX configuration file Or when printing HP GL files turn the banner off by adding b off after the two colons on the FPXXXXXx configuration file MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Chapter 5 Installing and Printing on a UNIX Environment 5 1 Introduction To perform installation on a UNIX TCP IP client workstation 1 Decide whether to use a LPR LPD support which is native to UNIX systems or b MiLAN Technology s host software 2 Also decide whether to print directly to the print server from each client workstation or to spool through a single server 3 Load the UNIX contents onto the local system The CD ROM contains an install script and compiled host software for UNIX systems It also has sample config files system files and additional utilities 4 Configure the print server with a proper IP address refer to Chapter 2 for information on assigning an IP address 5 Refer to the section in this chapter for the specific type of installation LPR LPD or host software 5 2 Host Software Versus LPD There are two ways to install the the print server print server onto UNIX Both methods can print with UNIX print c
58. Print Server Settings Download the following files to change the print server settings e Setup Defaults MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers F 3 Setup Zone Name Setup Printer Info Setup Font List Most settings e g binary type serial etc appear in the Chooser Disable the following parameters EtherTalk Protocol EtherTalk Phase Before Reset After Reset The IP address can be found in the Setup Defaults file Note Apple products were only designed to print to postscript printers The following suggestions may or may not work on the workstation F 2 4 Downloading the Setup Defaults File to Change the Print Server The Setup Zone Name Setup Printer Info and Setup Font List files can also be downloaded to change the print server settings Note Apple products were designed to print to postscript printers Any of the following suggestions may or may not work on the workstation There is no implied suggestion that ASCII printing will work Insert the AppleTalk files from the CD ROM Double click on MiLan Technology AT Files x x andon Folder Double click on 3100 3100cx 3200 3400 3X00FTX or 3500 files folder Using Apple to print ASCII from a print server a Double click on SetUp Printer Info file b Change to Postscript Printer no 4 Double click on SetUp Defaults_file 5 Change the following in the parallel port or serial port MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers a Show in Choos
59. Printer options file fpconfig 5 5 1 Fpf ilter Command Line Options Table 5 2 fpfilter Command Line Options Option P lt hostname gt s1 s2 p1 p2 p3 b f m D lt dir name gt A lt a2ps filter gt d startfile lt file gt endfile lt file gt startstring lt str gt endstring lt str gt syslog mail lt user gt prog lt prog name gt errorfile lt file gt CLASS lt hostname port List gt Function Send file to the hostname Send data to serial ports 1 or 2 Default Sends to parallel port 1 Send a banner file BSD only Send a final form feed Send CR LFs for UNIX LFs Look in the lt dir name gt directory for the fpconfig file Use the a2ps filter for ASCII to PostScript conversion Send a Control D at the beginning end of a job PS printers only Send file before print job Send file after print job Send str string in quotes before print job Send str string in quotes after the print job Print the error messages into the syslog file Send E mail to user at the end of print job if there is an error Executes at the end of a job sends the returned error code to it Use file to log errors If the current printer is unavailable tries printing to the device listed in the List e g CLASS alpha p1 CLASS alpha p2 closewait Closes all sent data before the socket closes pba Adobe PostScript conversion for non binary printers pbh HP PostScript
60. S 2 machines with TCP IP or SMB e PCs running a TCP IP protocol stack over Ethernet networks The MIL P3800 series of print servers can be configured by using Telnet or FastManage which is an SNMP management tool The MIL P3800 also supports SNMP MIB II RFCs 1213 and parallel serial MIBs RFCs 1318 and 1317 Utilities To make the units easier to manage MiLAN Technology supplies the FastManage suite of software FastManage is a windows based menu software application Configuration of devices can be done by using print utilities on UNIX systems Firmware upgrades of the flash EPROMs can be done via network connections or serial connection Installation Requirements Before installing the print server make sure you have the following e An universal power supply with proper cabling e Appropriate Ethernet cabling CAT 5 e Serial or parallel printer s with the proper cabling For EMI compliance refer to the Quick Installation Guide First Time Users The P3800 print server has four LED s and a test page push button MIL P3800 Series Print Servers located in the front panel as shown in the Figure 1 1 TECHNOLOGY MIL P3800 SERIES 10 100 ETHERNET PRINT SERVER MODEL MIL P3840 AG n J O GA PARALLEL 2 PARALLEL 1 Figure 1 1 Front and back panel view of the MIL P3800 ACT comes on yellow light and blinks randomly when the network ca ble is plugged into the print server and there is activity on the net
61. Sites MiLAN Technology provides on line technical support via WWW and our FTP site On line access provides product information firmware updates release notes etc To access e WWWehttp www milan com e FTP ftp ftp milan com J 2 Contacting Technical Support e By Phone 408 744 2751 e By Fax 408 744 2771 e By email support milan com J 3 Expediting Technical Support Service For faster service when calling technical support e Be ina position where the system and the print server are accessible e Know the type and versions of software you are using e Know your hardware specs e g memory and disk space e Note any and all error messages e Be specific about the problem s J 4 Returning Procedures 1 Call technical support at 408 744 2751 2 Technical support engineers will work with users to find the problem If technical support determines that the unit is defective a Return Material Authorization RMA is issued by our RMA administrator The MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers J 1 RMA administrator provides shipping instructions Note Itis required that any return has an RMA number or it will be rejected and returned to the sender J 5 How to access MiLAN Technology s FTP Site MiLAN Technology has set up an FTP server To ensure binary transfer of files switch to binary mode by entering bin or binary before downloading To access the ftp client e FTP to ftp milan com e Login as anonymous To
62. Uptime received device Information 0 minutes 18 sec 14 42 11 11 19 97 Cold Start 1 3 6 1 4 1 839 1 1 3 0 minutes 18 sec 14 40 31 11719797 Cold Start 1 3 6 1 4 1 835 1 1 3 0 minutes 18 sec 14 54 50 11 05 97 Cold Start 1 3 6 1 4 1 835 1 1 3 0 minutes 18 sec 14 54 45 11 05 97 Cold Start 1 3 6 1 4 1 835 1 1 3 Clear all Traps Refresh Log Figure 10 5 Traps Found Screen 10 3 2 Uptime Uptime displays how long the device has been running in days hours minutes and seconds Click once when there is a box around Uptime and the Session Windows Caption screen appears 10 3 3 Reset When this is clicked on a warning message appears asking whether or not the user wants to reset the print server Select Yes to continue No to stop 10 3 4 MiLAN Technology Logo A MiLAN Technology logo appears on the graphic Figure 10 2 When this logo is clicked on the print server specifications appear Reset Name Location and Contact Press Set after you make changes MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 10 3 10 3 5 Serial Port When a serial port icon is clicked information for that port is displayed Left and right mouse clicks displays different information Figure 10 6 Baud 9600 xl Left Button gt i Parity odd Serial Port Select eh z Flow xon xoff zi Stop Bit one z Data Bit eight bit xl Close Serial Port Printing Information iof x Right Button
63. access the FTP sites from a web browser e FIP to ftp ftp milan com Drivers and installation tips are located in pub fastport software and pub fastport docs J 6 UNIX Binary Files Available J 2 The following UNIX binaries are available on the FTP site e pub fastport software unix Always check the FTP site for previous and latest compiles These files contain the host software fpfilter and other printing utilities The file disk61X tar contains the latest install script and fpfilter binaries File Name aix rs6k_325 tar rs6k_414 tar rs6k_415 tar rs6k421_fpf332 tar amdahl amd_uts tar amd_uts_fpf332 tar bsd multsun4 tar sun3 tar sun4_411 tar sun4_412 tar sun4_413 tar Description RS6000 AIX 3 25 RS6000 AIX 4 1 4 RS6000 AIX 4 1 5 RS6000 AIX 4 2 1 Amdahl UTS Amdahl UTS 2 1 5 SysV rel 3 1 fpmulti for piping on SUN OS 4 X SUN 3 X on 68K processor Sun OS 4 1 1 Sun OS 4 1 2 Sun OS 4 1 3 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers sun4_414 tar sun4_414 fpf331 tar dec decmips tar decosf tar decosfno tar decult43_fpf332 tar decvax tar dgux dg411_fpf332 tar dg542 tar dg543 tar dynix dynix2 tar dynix414 tar dynix42 tar dynix431 tar hpux hp68k tar hp68k_fpf332 tar hp9k7c10 tar hp9k7c9x tar hp9k8c01 tar hp9k8c02 tar hp9k8c90_fpf332 tar hp9k8c9x tar hp9k8cpa tar hp9k_810 tar hp9k_835 tar hp9k_887 tar hp9k_g30 tar hp9kk200 tar hp_risc tar linux linux tar 1inx2030_fpf332
64. al Port FILE Print to File IPA 99 861 Standard TCP IP Port Xerox DocuPrint 4517 WFPO2ZOCOB LAN Manager Printer Port Note Mast computers use the LPT1 port to communicate with a local printer Create a new port Type Standard TCP IP Port lt Back Cancel Figure 3 7 Specify Port Type 5 The following screen is displayed Click Next to proceed MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard 2 xj Welcome to the Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard You use this wizard to add a port for a network printer Before continuing be sure that 1 The device is turned on 2 The network is connected and configured To continue click Next each cancel Figure 3 8 Welcome Screen 6 Type in the Printer Name IP Address of the pint server and also the Port Name Note For the Port Name any name can be used 7 Click Next to continue Select Custom and click on the Settings button Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard B x Additional Port Information Required RS The device could not be identified The detected device is of unknown type Be sure that 1 The device is properly configured 2 The address on the previous page is correct Either correct the address and perform another search on the network by returning to the previous wizard page or select the device type if you are sure the address is correct Device Type C Standard Cust
65. all 49 231 97 47 780 or email intl support milan com Chapter 1 Introduction and Installation Chapter 1 gives a description of the MIL P3800 Series of print servers 1 1 Overview of the MIL P3800 Series Print Servers The MIL P3800 series of print servers are 10 100 Mbps table top print servers Versions include MIL P3800 One RJ 45 UTP 10 100 Mbps port four parallel ports and two serial ports All MIL P3800 Series of print servers recognize the speed of a network using auto negotiation 1 2 Features of the Print Servers 1 2 1 Physical Features 10 100BASE TX RJ 45 connector e 1284 compatible parallel port s e RS 232 serial ports using the adapter RJ 45 DB9 connector e Four LED s indicating network and printer activities e Push button switch for test page config sheet printing 1 2 2 Configuration Features e HTTP Web server for configuration e FastManage SNMP manager for Windows e Serial port configuration e On board diagnostic utilities can also be accessed on line e Apple users can configure the print server by downloading configuration files MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 1 1 1 2 3 Shared Printer Features 1 3 1 4 Note 1 5 The print server gives you a wide access to shared printers including e Windows 95 98 Windows NT 3 x 4 x 2000 and Windows for Workgroups systems 3 11 PCs networked with Novell NetWare e UNIX support e Apple Macintosh using EtherTalk e O
66. and no translation ascii ascii_landscape pcel_landscape Writes data as ASCII substitutes carriage return line feed pairs for the line feeds sent by UNIX and sends a text banner and a final form feed Like ASCII but sets the printer in the landscape mode before printing Like PCL but sets the printer in the landscape mode before printing pel Assumes the data is PCL and sends a text banner Carriage returns are not added Form feed is sent at the end of the job psb_tek Prints PostScript binary files on a Adobe PostScript Level 2 printers ps Writes PostScript and sends a Control D at the end of the print job Sends a PostScript banner page at the end of the print job MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 5 Printer Types Description psb_hp Prints PS binary files on newer HP printers that support PostScript level 2 Use this queue type only if PostScript binary data is being printed autosense Data is checked For ASCII line feeds are translated into carriage return feeds Final form feed is sent For PS a Control D is sent at the end Either way a PS banner is sent at the end To use a printer attached to the serial or parallel port add an _s1 and _p1 Default Parallel 1 the print server supports multiple queues by printing via LPD from a maximum of 8 LPD connections no limits for host software The device listens for LPD connections simultaneously if they are being used the
67. ap 1 as thumbnails which represents each SNMP device Figure 9 2 3 Double click on a thumbnail to display a full screen image of that particular SNMP device refer to Chapter 10 Discovery Map1 Tool File Options Action Parameters Window Help ba gt sla RIS ia 2 wl UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Figure 9 2 Map 1 Discovery Application MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Note Discover uses three protocols to find SNMP devices IP IPX and NetBIOS This means that if a device uses all three of these protocols that device will be discovered three different times on the Map 9 2 1 Tool bar The tool bar displays above the Map field Figure 9 3 displays a close up view of the Discovery Application tool bar To remove the tool bar from the field From the Option pull down menu deselect Tool bar 2 cs tal FRA D a 2 am e Node properties Send broadcast New Save View as Refresh Ping Close all Help map map hostnameor map windows IP address Figure 9 3 Discovery Application Tool bar 9 2 2 Status Bar By default the Status Bar displays below the Map field Figure 9 2 This displays current information including e Searching Means the software is looking for more SNMP hosts over the subnet e XX Host Number of hosts found e XX Dead Number of host found that were off line e Type of device found for example the printer server Network Print Server Model P380
68. aracter in IP Address A valid IP address is in the form of a b c d where a b c d can vary from 0 to 255 For example 199 86 126 235 The address contains one field with value more than 255 Not all fields are defined A valid IP address is in the form of a b c d where a b c d can vary from 0 to 255 For example 199 86 12 235 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Host name appears as blanks Create hosts file with a vertical list of host names hostname space IP or lt host name gt lt IP address gt I 4 Discovery Application Messages Table I 4 Discovery Application Messages Message Solution IP IPX and NetBIOS Discovery are disabled For Discovery to work at least one of them should be enabled Please update SNMP section issnmp ini file Discovery will exit now Unable to open file bitmap file The FastManage installation may be bad Reinsta Valid Values are IP YES or IP NO IP IPX entries of IPX YES or IPXK NO NetBIOS Yes or NetBIOS No Unable to copy palette for the bitmap The FastManage installation may be bad Reinstall Unable to create bitmap from file DIB The FastManage installation may be bad Reinstall No such pathway or drive is not ready Restart Windows 1 5 Ping Application Message Table I 5 Ping Application Message Message Solution IP is disabled in the file issnmp ini IP needs to be enabled for this appli
69. arametersms Current H 6 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Serial port config Baud Data Stop Parity Flow 9600 8 1 None Xon Xoff Modify yes or no y or n n H 10 Z Reset NVRAM to factory defaults Also reset IP address yes or no y or n n H 11 Print ASCII Test Page Select port 1 Parallel 1 lt enter gt don t change continue H 12 Print PostScript Test Page Select port 1 Parallel 1 lt enter gt don t change continue MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers H 7 Appendix Troubleshooting FastManage I 1 General Messages Table l 1 General Messages Message Cause Solution Bad status from target device lt n gt Press CANCEL to exit program This message appears when the SNMP agent on device returns a NO_SUCH_NAME for a particular OTD The firmware on the agent does not match with the software s version Upgrade the agent s firmware and the sending s packet a WINSNMP packet possibly due to an SNMP agent that has crashed FastManage package Unable to open SNMP This message appears if the IP stack on the Restart Windows Session manager has died Bitmap Init Error Application is not able to find the bitmap Installation may be bad Reinstall Unable to load NPAPIDLL File NPAPI DLL could not be found Put the file NPAPI DLL in the path Unabletoload File NPSNMP DLL could tbe found Put the file NPSNMP DLLinthe path NPSNMP
70. artstring M amp 110 5 5 3 Manual Installation for System V Machines 1 Log in as root and create a dummy device in dev touch dev alpha 2 Change its ownership group and access rights chown Ip dev alpha chgrp lp dev alpha chmod 660 dev alpha 3 Shut down the lp scheduler usr lib lpshut 4 Use usr 1ib lpadmin command to create a printer Use the local system admin tools to type the following ust lib lpadmin p lt printer name gt v lt device name gt m lt model gt MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 11 where printer name is alpha device name is dev alpha and model is either standard or dumb in our example 5 Issue the following when adding postscript for Solaris Ipadmin p lt printer name gt I any Interface directory usually has these paths e SCO Solaris DG UX UNIX Ware 2 X and Interactive usr spool 1lp admins 1lp interfaces e HP UX and Silicon Graphics systems usr spool 1p interface e SGI Irix system varspool lp interface e AT amp T and Sequent usr spool 1p admins 1p Edit the interface file so its contents function as a sub shell Output is then piped to the fpfilter program To do so a First line of the interface file usually is bin sh Add a single open parenthesis in the second line of the file bin sh your existing interface script b Add a line to the second to last line see example This line closes the parenthesis to make it a sub shell usr lo
71. ates these objects in the same context but users have full control of the object context Note the context name at the top of the screen 5 Press esc to Exit Installing Print Server in NDS Using NWadmin The following procedures describe how to create a print server a new print queue using NWadmin Creating a New Print Server MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 1 4 3 2 1 From the NetWare Tools menu select NWadmin NetWare Tools BE User Tools N wadmin Figure 4 1 Running NWadmin Highlight the Organizational Unit where the print server printer and print queue will be created From the Object pull down window click Create The New Object window appears Select print server and click OK The Create Print Server window appears Type in the print server name The name must be eight characters long beginning with FP and ending with the last six digits of the hardware address After typing in the name click Create Creating a New Printer Under the Object pull down window click Create The New Object window appears Select Printer and click OK Type in the Printer Name and click Create Creating a Print Queue Under the Object pull down menu click Create The New Object menu appears Select Print Queue and click OK The Create Print Queue menu appears Select the Select Object icon In the Select Object window highlight the Directory Context wher
72. button once with a small pointed tool 9 Locate the type of driver on the CD ROM for your operating systems where the installation will be performed e g MS Windows UNIX NetWare or Macintosh 10 Refer to the relevant chapter in this document for the specific network operating system and continue installation MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Chapter 2 Setting the IP Address 2 1 Assigning the IP Address Devices on a TCP IP network are identified by two addresses e Hardware mac address A 6 byte address assigned to the print server device by the manufacturer e IP address A 4 byte address assigned by the administrator or MIS department The print server stores its IP address in its NVRAM The default IP address is set to 0 0 0 0 Note 0 0 0 0 is not a valid IP address When the address is 0 0 0 0 the device uses RARP BOOTP or DHCP to acquire a valid address DHCP is enabled by default Use any of the following methods to assign the IP address e Run the install script from the CD ROM UNIX e Seta static ARP entry Make a telnet connection then set the IP address with UNIX workstation e Use the ARP and telnet commands to set the IP address with MS Windows workstations e Use RARP BOOTP to set the address when the device powers up e Use BOOTP or DHCP to set the address every time the device is powered up This is preferred in larger networks e Set IP address through Serial Console e Ona Macintosh
73. cal Digi fpfilter P alpha lt options gt exit 0 Host software is in usr local milan The host name is alpha in etc hosts For System V Release 4 place the following on the line after the comments lines FILTER usr local Digi fpfilter P the print server lt options gt Options field contains any option listed in Table 5 2 To use a printer config file use the D option with fpfilter followed by directory name containing the fpconfig file For example D usr local milan 5 12 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 Enable the printer and accept these print job commands enable lt printer name gt accept lt printer name gt 5 5 4 Manual Installation on IBM RS 6000 1 Edit file usr 1lpd qconfig that specifies options for virtual printers 2 Add the following lines Digi device lp0 lp0 file FALSE header never trailer never access both backend usr local milan commfilter sh where queue name is MiLAN hostis in usr local milan 3 Create a script commfilter sh in the usr local milan bin sh usr local Digi fpfilter P alpha lt options gt exit 0 To use a printer config file i e fpconfig file located in the usr local milan directory see Table 5 3 D usr local milan 4 Make the script executable chmod 755 commfilter sh 5 Stop and restart the qdaemon s_stat filter and 1_stat filter options are not supported stopsrc s qdaemon start
74. cal host table and sends an SNMP query to each one of them e Pings to a local broadcast address to detect all devices e Using the subnet mask and the IP address of the device detects all of the devices in the current subnet e Through SNMP traps the printer server sends a power on trap at power up if they are configured with a manager address Discovery options are user configurable and are stored in the issnmp ini file Discovery uses icons to identify an SNMP device on the Map Click once on the icon to display information for a device Double click on the thumbnail to launch a device 9 1 1 Discovery Features e Discovery supports a limited amount of placement so that users can position the device on the Map e Users can make devices invisible e Store or restore a Map e Contains a TFTP client e Users can download flash image to upgrade the device to a different firmware level MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 1 Launching Discovery ka FastManage for FastPort iol x File Edit View Help pm Digi rin 4500 uas Zlrye Discovery Stackable Application 5 On Line Help Uninstall FastManage ane zleen lnc Bootp Server Ping Readme Application 1 objects selected 272 bytes Ui Figure 9 1 FastManage for the printer server menu 1 Double click on the Discovery Application icon The software discovers all of the SNMP devices on the subnet 2 Devices will now appear on M
75. cation to run This application will exit now Enable IP discovery in the Discovery Application to enabled IP 1 6 BOOTP Server Application Messages Table l 6 BOOTP Server Application Messages Problem Cause Solution Please retry when there is a BOOTPtab file No Bootfile found Enter BOOTPtab file and retry IP is disabled in the file issnmp ini For this application to run enabled IP IP discovery disabled in the Discovery Application packet is received Enable IP Discovery in the Discovery Application to enabled IP Error to read packet This message comes when a bad BOOTP Retry If the problem still persists reset the device The address should contain only HEX digits i e 0 9 and A F a f Validation for MAC address Enter a valid MAC address Hardware address is not specified So this entry cannot be saved cannot be saved This message appears during the operation Add entry to BOOTPtab file operation Add entry to BOOTPtab file Enter Host name address in the user entry form IP address is not specified So this entry This message appears during the Enter IP Address in the user entry form This is not a valid hardware address User input invalid MAC address A valid hardware address is a 12 digit HEX number For example 01 23 45 67 89 AB MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix J Technical Support Services J 1 WWW and FTP
76. choose notto install DIGILPR by clicking Cancel to exit Setup Figure 3 23 Choose a Destination Directory 6 Enter a name of a directory to spool the jobs Default is c spool Click Browse to select another directory MiLAN Technology recommends that the default directory C spool be selected 7 Type in a name and a host name of the PC 8 Select a folder for the program items Setup will add program icons to the Program Folder listed below You may type a new folder name or select one from the Existing Folders list Click Next to continue Program Folder Startup Existing Folders Accessories jetWare Tools Network StartUp Figure 3 24 Select a Folder 9 The MiLAN TechnologyLpr files are now copied to the system Reboot to start DigiLpr MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 26 3 2 5 2 Adding Queues in MiLAN Technology LPR To create a print queue 1 Double click on the LPR Utility icon In the Queues pull down window click Add New Queue DIGILPR Exit Cancel Wema Configure About Suspend Queue Restart Queue Delete Queue Move Files Display Delete Files Figure 3 25 Add New Queue Menu 2 In the Add a new queue menu fill in the print server s host name or its TCP IP address Choose from the list of Print Queues on the print server Note MiLAN Technology recommends that you use the default queue raw_p1 The _p1 designates parallel por
77. col IP IPX or NetBIOS IPX requires Novell 4 1 DOS and Windows drivers already installed on the system 7 Specify the system s IP address and its subnet mask The gateway MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers selection is optional Figure 8 1 IP parameters 8 Please enter the below parameters The IP address and Subnet Mask are compulsory The Default Gateway address is optional PAddess S289 amp Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 0 0 0 0 Figure 8 1 IP Parameters Choose a location to install the FastManage application and click Next Default is c fm A message appears asking if a menu item for FastManage is to be added to the NWADMIN utility Select Yes and snap fp d11 file is copied to the Windows directory and the nwadmin ini file is updated 10 Choose to have the system rebooted and click Finish 8 2 2 Custom Installation Custom installation configures the Discovery and or SNMP parameters Custom install follows the same procedure as the express except for a few extra steps To begin custom installation 1 After step 6 in section 8 2 1 choose Custom Installation and click Next Choose a network protocol IP IPX or NetBIOS If IP was selected specify the system s IP address and its subnet mask The gateway selection is optional In the Configure Advanced Parameters menu Figure 8 2 configure the following General Parameters and click Next Refer to section 8 2
78. directional printing on the printer Change in printer s software MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers a Hook up to the printer directly b Print one job or change on printer s keypad 6 The printer is set to parallel serial mode that the user is using or it is auto sensing Change in printer s software or from the printer s keypad 7 Printer in chooser option is set to Sense or Always or only if connected with printer connected and the print server already shows in Chooser F 2 1 For a Serial Printer 1 Make sure serial port is enabled in Chooser 2 Use a serial cable with more than three pins 3 Make sure the communications parameters are the same The print server s defaults are 9600 8 1 no parity on off 4 Change setting on printer F 2 2 PostScript Binary Print If the printer driver sends PostScript Binary print jobs verify that the print server is set to Postscript Binary Enabled and the user is using Binary Printer Name port to print e Try printing with the LaserWriter driver If neither 7 x or 8 x prints try using the one or the other When printing to a plotter e Select the HP GL mode or a special driver supplied by the plotter s technical support department which allows HP GL mode and the print server ports appear in the Chooser e If Postscript print jobs enter the printer s memory but do not get pushed out make sure the software is adding Control D F 2 3 Changing the
79. e Figure A 1 Print Server 3 Click on the restore factory defaults button to restore the nvram to factory defaults MIL P3800 Series ofPrint Servers A 1 A 2 MiLAN TECHNOLOGY milan com www The N YRAM has been restored to factory defaults Caution The IP address has been reset to 0 0 0 0 factory default If you reset the device without setting the proper IP address the browser may no longer be able to communicate with the device Click here to set the IP address g C ss CB tenetzone Figure A 2 Restore Defaults 4 Click on the link here when the menu screen above is displayed to set the IP address 5 Enter the IP address in the menu screen below and click on the MiaLA MIL P3800 Print Server Series TECHNOLOGY BBAWAWAWan Cheeta Home View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support TCP IP Engine Configuration IP Address fi 99 86 12 104 Enable BOOTP RARP Vv Enable DHCP M Subnet mask pooo Default gateway fissa6i2201 BOOTP RARP interval 2 hours SysLog host ooo SysLog Priority Critica Submit Reset Form Help E Internet zone MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers submit button to reboot the unit MiLAN TECHNOLOGY BAAWAW Want het Home View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support TCP IP Engine Configuration IP Address 199 86 12 104 Enable BOOTP RARP a Enable DHCP Vv Subnet mask foo Default gat
80. e displayed on the current Map To perform this task from the pull down menu select Send Broadcast from the Action pull down menu 9 4 4 Refresh Map Directly to the right of the Send Broadcast icon is the Refresh Map icon This option checks the status of each host discovered on the Map A packet exchange is done for each host A red cross out mark displays if a host did not reply To perform this task from the pull down menu select Refresh map from the Action pull down menu 9 4 5 Discover Host To the right of the Refresh Map icon is the Discover hosts icon This will rediscover all host on the subnet To perform this task from the pull down menu select Discover hosts from the Action pull down menu 9 4 6 Using the Ping Manager Ping allows a user to check if a host is accessible on a network or not A package exchange is done to accomplish this task 1 Click the Ping icon fifth from the right on the tool bar The Ping Manager menu appears 2 Click once on an IP address to highlight it 3 Click the Ping button The host that was contacted will respond in MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 5 the Report box To perform this task from the pull down menu select Ping hosts from the Action pull down menu 9 4 7 TFTP Icon Flash Download Obtain a flash upgrade from MiLAN Technology s LAN technical support see Appendix F Do the following to update a flash file 1 Click on
81. e IPX Do IPX routing and the Poll hosts file all have to be enabled The Enable IPX parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default e Do IPX Discovery Use SNMP over IPX and find all devices that respond The Enable IPX parameter must be selected to enable this option Not checked by default e Enable NetBIOS When this option is chosen this enables NetBIOS using the NetBEUI protocol If not selected this will not perform any SNMP over NetBIOS operation e Strict Name Resolution When this is enabled all device names starting with SNMPA will be treated as NetBIOS names The Enable NetBIOS parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default e Do NetBIOS Discovery Uses SNMP over NetBIOS and finds all devices that respond The Enable NetBIOS parameter must be selected to enable this option e Default Initialize all the parameters to default values e Save Options Saves all changes to the issnmp ini file e Cancel Cancels the changes MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 8 7 8 8 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Chapter 9 Discovery Application Chapter 9 describes the features of Discovery including features for the MIL P3800 printer server 9 1 Introduction to Discovery Discovery detects SNMP manageable devices over IP IPX and NetBEUI NetBEUI networks On IP networks Discovery supports and performs the following e Reads entries from a lo
82. e print server Windows menu double click on the PrintServer Mgr Figure 10 1 icon 2 When prompted for an IP Address Alias IPX Address Name or a NetBIOS Name enter the device s name or address and click Ok Enter in the name or address exactly as it appears on the network 3 A graphic displaying the device s front and rear panels appears Figure 10 2 This graphic is the same as displayed during Discovery ff FastManage for FastPort Iof x File Edit View Help Print 4500 iver F ast Port Application ES Me a On Line Help Uninstall FastManage a g zee Nal z Bootp Server Ping Readme Application 1 object s selected 272 bytes Ui Figure 10 1 The PrintServer Mgr Icon 10 2 Overview of Managing the Print Server Once the application is launched a graphical illustration representing MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 10 1 the front and rear panels of the specific the print server is displayed Figure 10 2 Cocfiacalion FastPort Windows Application Untitled ioj Pul down p Configuration Status Help Exit Menu Hot Spot Hb Uptime Reset Device Hat Spot Figure 10 2 The Print Server Print Server 10 3 The Print Server Application There are Hot Spots on the graphical illustration of the print server Figure 10 2 that can be clicked on to obtain information To find a hot spot move the mouse around the screen A box outlining the hot spot
83. e the print queue will be held and click OK The Create Print Queue window appears with the selected object filled in the Print Queue Volume box MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 5 5 Type inthe Print Queue Name and click Create e Queue name along with the context name is less than 256 characters e All queues are serviced by the printer attached to the print server s parallel port e To force the print server to service the queue with the serial port the queue name must end with an S1 e Append the queues with P2 P3 P4 or S2 respectively A new print server printer and print queue has been created Continue to the next procedure to connect these objects 4 3 2 3 Connecting the print server to a Printer 1 In the Context Tree menu select the print server created Click Assignments in the following window Figure 4 2 In the next window click Add p S Highlight the printer created and click OK NetWare Administrator Root Print Server fp123456 5 Identification fp123456 MiLAHN ame asome Be Users Operator Auditing Log Print Layout Figure 4 2 Print Server The printer is now connected to the print server Continue to the next section to assign a print queue to the print server 460 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 3 2 4 Assigning a Print Queue to the Print Server 1 Double click
84. e the print server the valid default workgroup value WORKGROUP MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix D Troubleshooting Netware D 1 FastManage There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server for a Novell network including FastPort Windows Application Untitled lof x eME Status Help Exit TCP IP Contig Novell Config IEX Config IPX SAP Name ooo General Config NDS Config gt IPX SAP Interval b gt gt Ethertalk Config gt Print Server Config IPX Traps gt gt SMB Config File Server Config IP Enabled NetBIOS Contig Queue Config Figure C 1 Novell Config Selections Windows 95 1 From Novell Config selections include 1 IPX Config gt IPX SAP Name Changes the name used by the device in service messages on the IPX network This name displays in Map 1 of the Discovery Application node Default is FPXXXXXX where XXXXXX is a the last six digits of the MAC address e IPX Traps gt Enable IPX Traps When enabled the software sends traps to a designated system Default is Enabled e IPX Trap Hosts Designates to the system where traps will be sent Default for both IPX Trap Host 1 and IPX Trap Host 2 are all zeros e IPX Enabled Enables disables IPX protocol Default Enabled 2 NDS Config gt Enable NDS Enables disables NetWare Directory Services Default is Enabled e gt Preferred DS Tree Sets the
85. ectional specification MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Chapter 7 Configuration Features of the Print Server Chapter 7 contains methods of configuration and status monitoring for the print server 7 1 Configuring Print Server There are many methods to configure the print server remotely across the network or by attaching a serial parallel device The print server also has real time status tools to resolve errors that may occur with another device The print server can be configured to generate status messages as they occur and direct them to e Serial terminal e Telnet session Information includes the start finish of a print job step by step boot procedure and why a printer failed 7 2 Serial Port Console Monitoring The print server serial port can be used to configure the device while in a non networked mode and also to view status messages 7 3 Enabling or Disabling the Console Monitor 1 Establish a serial port connection Refer to Chapter 2 sec 2 8 2 After the serial port is put in console mode there are the following options e S Displays status about each port e D Displays summary configuration parameters e Displays commands in the config menu 3 From the available commands in the config menu press C for console mode options Console mode options 1 off 2 Serial Network MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 7 1 7 2 3 Network only lt enter gt don t change continue 4
86. ed by default Do IP Broadcast If this parameter is selected the software will perform discovery through SNMP over IP broadcast The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default Every If this parameter is selected the software broadcasts every lt n gt seconds to discover new devices The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Not checked and 120 seconds by default Times This option is the number of times the system will broadcast before giving up discovery of a node The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked and 3 times by default Poll hosts List If this is selected the software reads through the list If a name is in the hosts file the software then uses SNMP to discover each host Checked by default Poll Map List If selected the software discovers each host in MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Map 1 through SNMP Checked by default e Find Only MiLAN Technology Devices If this checked Discovery finds displays only MiLAN Technology devices Not checked by default e Enable IPX When selected FastManage enables IPX protocol If not selected FastManage will not perform any SNMP over IPX operation Not checked by default e Do IPX Routing When enabled users can manage IPX devices across the router If the device name is specified in the host file then that device will be discovered Enabl
87. elect the printer description Defined elsewhere Press esc until the Print Server Configuration menu appears Select Notify List for Printer MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 3 Note 4 3 1 1 Note Select Printer0 from the Defined Printers list Press ins and select a user from the pull down menus Enable print server notification under netware configuration of the print server Installing a Print Server in an NDS Environment Create the print server printer and print queue use PCONSOLE or NWADMIN Configure a DS Tree Name and DS Context Name in the print server FastManage can be used to configure these two parameters on the print server Installing a Print Server on NDS using PCONSOLE Run PCONSOLE using the following command from the public directory on the server pconsole Using the keys select Quick Setup and press Enter In the Print Services Quick Setup menu select Print Server and press Enter Press ins to create the Print Server Object Name created must be eight characters long Begin with FP and end with the last six digits of the hardware address on the bottom For example If the print server has a O040C8Feed00 address create device FPFeed05 The print server name is not case sensitive Select New Printer and press Enter Enter a name for the new printer object The name should be less than 256 characters including the context The print se
88. ell scripts and fpconfig files in the examples subdirectory on the CD ROM MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers E 4 Sample Entries for Direct and Remote Spooling The following are sample printer entries for direct spooling to a parallel PostScript printer attached to the print server pf2 parallel printer attached to Digi the print server lp dev p 2 mx 0 rw pl 60 1f usr adm pf2 errs af usr adm pf2 acct rw sd home spool p f2 if usr local milan fpfilter Here is a sample printer entry for remote spooling to a PostScript printer called alpha which was accessed through a host named accounting The log file is usr adm alpha errs and the files are spooled in the directory usr spool alpha Alpha 1 usr adm alpha errs lp rm accounting mx 0 rp ps sd usr spool alpha E 4 1 DHCP Troubleshooting If there are problems locating the print server after it has acquired an address through DHCP e Check to make sure the print server is connected correctly and is powered on e Check the DHCP server and make sure there are enough IP addresses allocated for clients MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix F Troubleshooting AppleTalk F 1 Troubleshooting Tips The following are troubleshooting tips for AppleTalk F 1 1 Situation 1 Printing Over Ethertalk Using Driver 7 x The serial port fails when the user tries to print over EtherTalk using driver 7 x to LaserW
89. ends a packet over the network directed to a specific device to enquire if it is on line or not To launch Ping 1 Double click on the Ping Application icon 2 The Ping Window Application window appears Click the Ping pull down menu 3 The Perform Ping Operation menu appears Figure 11 1 Enter the IP address to be pinged Click Ping Th e application displays the response in the Ping Result box Ping Settings Help Exit Perform Ping Operation Please enter the IP Address to be pinged 0 0 0 0 f 7 Ping Result Help Cancel Figure 11 1 Ping Operation Window 11 1 1 Updating the Ping Settings To update the Ping settings 1 Click the Settings pull down window The Update Settings window appears Figure 11 2 MIL P3800 Series ofPrint Servers Ping Windows Application Ping Ping Settings Help Exit Update Settings x Please enter the time out value below This application uses this value to abort a Ping operation Time out in milliseconds Cancel Figure 11 2 Update Settings Menu 2 Change the time out setting in milliseconds Note A value of up to 32 000 milliseconds can be entered 3 Click OK 11 2 Troubleshooting Ping If a device does not respond to a ping command e Make sure that you entered the correct IP address in the ping command line e Make sure the device was assigned the correct IP address e Physically ma
90. entry refers to the remote printer name This tells the print server to do special formatting for the printer If there is an ascii printer attached use ascii If the printer is postscript use ps If it is a plotter or you are configuring a PC NFS printer use raw 2 Create the spool directory Change ownership to daemon mkdir usr spool beta chown daemon usr spool beta chmod 755 usr spool beta 3 Create log accounting files Change ownership to daemon touch usr adm beta errs touch usr adm beta acct chown daemon usr adm beta errs chown daemon usr adm beta acct chmod 644 usr adm beta errs chmod 644 usr adm beta acct 4 Start the printer and queue by typing the following lpc start beta 5 You can now print files with the lpr or lp command Ipr Pbeta lt filename gt or Ip dbeta lt filename gt 5 4 6 Manual Installation with LPD on System V Machines Access printers in System V systems through LP scheduler System V administration commands allow users to create a printer description file called an interface filter This filter is designed to customize the data for a printer Enable LPD on System V systems by using SAM on HP UX admintool on Solaris or any other system admin tool For SCO UNIX refer to the readme 1pd file in the SCO directory 1 Use lpshut command to shut down the printer usr lib Ipshut 2 Add a line in this format to the etc lp systems file alpha x bsd 1 10 MIL P
91. er Yes b Before Reset Delay 60 c After Reset Delay 60 Note Steps b andc may slow down printing 6 Click on File and Save As 7 Choose the folder on the hard drive 8 Save and close 9 From the Chooser click on LaserWriter 8 7 10 Select the FP or Digi or Milan parl 11 Click on Setup OK and Close Note Ignore any messages about inability to print to a spooler e Re insert AppleTalk Utilities files e Double click MiLAN Technology AT Utilities x x folder e Double click on Utilities folder e Double click on Apple Printer Utility 2 2 or the older LaserWriter Utility 7 6 2 for driver 8 LaserWriter Utility 7 2 for Driver7 e Close the utilities and the MiLAN Technology AT Utilities x x folder e Click and hold Finder upper right hand corner e Select Apple Printer Utility e Click and hold Utilities e Select Download Postscript File e Click on SetUp Defaults file Open and Save e A message saying no output to printer appears rewrite files or printing is bad If Cancel or Replace appears select Replace e To conclude select Apple gt Chooser gt LaserWriter Driver 7 8 and print the appropriate Setup file to the print server s par1 queue MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers F 5 F 6 e Ignore any message about inability to print to a spooler The following is used to see if the download was successful 1 Apple gt Chooser gt Lase
92. er which parses validates and stores the values Note Choosing Utility and then Restart Printer will soft reset the print server Reset will take approximately 60 seconds MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Chapter 8 8 1 8 1 1 FastManage Installation Chapter 8 has information for the FastManage software FastManage Applications Discovery Application This is used to find devices that have an SNMP agent on the network Ping Application This is a stand alone program for debugging Users ping to an IP address BOOTP Server This allows users to assign IP addresses dynamically to the devices on the network PrintServer Mgr This application is used to find and maintain the print servers On line Help A list of available help option appear Uninstall FastManage Removes FastManage Stackable HUB_MCS Mgr This application is used to find and maintain hubs and media converters Readme Notes the latest features of FastManage FastManage MIBs FastManage utilizes the RFC 1213 MIB for SNMP compliance FastManage also uses the repeater mib and the private mib for the hub line and private mib for the print server line 8 1 2 FastManage Requirements 8 1 3 FastManage runs as a stand alone tool i e no other TCP IP packages required However if a system has any Winsock compatible TCP IP stacks i e PC TCP Chameleon or LAN Workplace or Microsoft TCP IP stack it can co exist with these packages
93. er network protocol to update the firmware Occasionally it is possible that a network flash update gets interrupted due to network or power supply problems and firmware main code remains corrupt When this happens bootcode will detect and force a serial flash upload This feature will guide the user through a series of menus and prompts to upload the new firmware successfully G 5 Webserver Flash Upload To flash upload a file using the webserver do the following steps 1 Enter the following URL to access the device http lt IP address of the print server gt MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers ____MIL P3800 Print Server Series TECHNOLOGY BRAWN Aart Cie tti View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support Firmware Version 8 0 14 Date Time May 24 2000 11 06 04 Boot Version 14 Date Time Mar 28 2000 16 57 43 Ethernet Address 00 40 C8 07 OF C5 IP Address 199 86 12 104 Device Status _ Refresh Parallel Port 1 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 1 Parallel Port 2 ONLINE No job active on parallel port 2 Port 1 active on serial port 1 Port 2 active on serial port 2 Figure C 1 Print Server 2 From the menu screen click on the configure link 3 From the options available as displayed below click on Flash Upload P3800 Print Server Series TECHNOLOGY BAYA Aart hein Home View Configuration Configure Setup Password Support
94. ess For Sun OS using domain name servers not YP or NIS use fpfilter resolver instead of fpfilter For example MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers cp fpfilter resolver fpfilter 6 If an IP address is duplicated on the network disconnect the print server from the network and ping it If there continues to be a response another node has the same IP address as the print server 7 Check the arp entry for the print server with the following command arp a lt IP address of the print server gt E 3 UNIX Configuration Files E 3 1 Using fpfilter Configuration Files The fpfilter software acts as an input filter specified in the etc printeap file in BSD systems Since BSD does not allow command line options as part of an if entry there are two possible methods for specifying the options needed e Create a fpconfig file that lists the options The installation script will do this when installing a printer e Create a shell script and specify it as the input filter The shell script then calls the fpfilter program with the appropriate options For example modify the if entry in the printcap file to read Note The fpfilter fpconfig file will only work if using fpfilter It will not work in typical LPR LPD installation see Chapter 4 for a description of the difference between host software and LPR LPD installations if usr local milan fpfilter Where fpfilter is the name of the shell script Refer to the command line sh
95. ess Hostname or URL MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 19 HP Internet Printer Connection 199 86 12 256 parallelt e ay ah IPP_199 86 12 256 parallell 4 On the screen entitled Completing the HP Internet Printer click on Next Choose the driver for the printer When the printer driver is installed print a Windows NT test page Print a PostScript file using MS Word Sy a om Print a BMP file using MS Paint 3 20 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 1 9 Printing From NetBEUI supported DOS Workstation NetBEUI workstations support the DOS level Net commands for locating and redirecting local ports to shared printers These DOS level commands include net view and net use 3 1 9 1 Net View e net view This command shows all devices within a work group communicating on the network with the same networking protocol as the client workstation e net view workgroup lt wgname gt This command shows all devices within the workgroup lt wgname gt communicating with the same protocol as the workstation e net view FPfeed05 This command shows all the shared resources on the MiLAN Technology s print server Net view displays the following Shared resources at FPfeed05 Sharename Type Comment PARALLEL1 PrintParallel Port 1 ON LINE SERIAL 1 PrintSerial Port 1 The command was completed successfully The print server name FPfeed05 and share names PARALLEL1 and SERIAL 1 are user configurable
96. etwork What do you want to do Type the printer name or click Next to browse for a printer Name Connect to a printer on the Internet or on your intranet URL http 771 99 86 12 104 ipp parallel lt Back Cancel SO mao e Click NEXT and choose the proper printer driver When the printer driver is installed print a Windows 2000 test page Print a PostScript file using MS Word Print a BMP file using MS Paint 3 1 7 IPP Printing Windows 95 98 MS Client 1 Select Add Printer from Start Menu then select Settings and click on Printers Click on Add Printer icon then select Network Printer Locate the printer and enter the URL of the printer as sh own in the figure below MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Type the network path or the queue name of your printer If you don t know its name click Browse to view available network printers Network path or queue name http 199 86 12 81 ipp parallell Browse Do you print from MS DOS based programs C Yes O No lt Back Cancel 4 Click NEXT and choose the proper printer driver 5 When printer driver is installed print a Windows 95 98 test page 6 Print a PostScript file using MS Word 3 1 8 IPP Printing With HP IPP Client on Windows NT 4 0 Workstation 1 On the Start Menu select Programs and HPInternet Printer Connection 2 Click Next on the screen entitled Create HP Internet Printer Connection 3 Enter IP addr
97. eues the print server does the following 1 2 At boot up the print server tries to locate an NDS server It then looks at the context it has been configured with and tries to login as print server FPPXXXXXX It then gets the printer attribute from the print server and gets a list of corresponding print queues It attaches to those print queues Unless a context and tree name are not specified in the NVRAM it will not logon to NDS The print server then tries to locate normal Bindery file servers Once it locates one it looks in its preferred server NVRAM value and if it exists gets a route to that server It then looks in the preferred server in the sys login milan directory for its configuration file FPX XX XXX last six digits of hardware address It then reads its configuration file and logs in and attaches to the queues and servers listed in that configuration file If a preferred server was not specified in its NVRAM it will not attempt Bindery mode 10 If a config file is not found the print server will log in as print server 4 6 FPXXXXXX on the preferred server If successful it gets the list of queues and attaches to them Printing to the Print Server Print to the print server as if it were a Novell print server For example use Novell s CAPTURE command to capture a local PC port to the print server print queue For example assuming a server name of raisa on LPT 1 CA
98. eway 993 86 12 201 BOOTP RARP interval 2 hours SysLog host pooo SysLog Priority Crtica E Submit Reset Form Help H C internet zone Figure A 3 Engine Configuration MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers A 3 Appendix B Hardware Features B 1 Features e The MIL P3800 board with Ethernet controller serial and parallel port interfaces e CPU A 32 bit ARM7TDMI RISC processor is used in this unit with clock of 40MHZ e Memory 4Mbyte DRAM 2x1Mx16 e Flash Flash device is 29F800B from AMD This device is 8Megabits and arranged in 512K X16 format and bottom sector Access time is 120ns e MAC chipset Ethernet controller is 10 100 Mbps with its own memory management and is built to ARM processor e 10 100BASE TX RJ 45 unshielded twisted pair connector B 2 Dip Switch Modes Product start up mode depends upon how the dip switches are setup especially SW3 and SW4 The following table summarizes the modes supported and switch settings for the same Table H 1 SWl SW2 SW3 SW4 Mode Function Remark Down Down Up Up Normal Mode Telnet disabled Effective on power up Down Down Down Up Normal Mode Telnet enabled Default mode Down Down Up Down Serial Console Mode Non Network mode Down Down Down Down NVRAM Reset Mode Step 1 Toggle Down Down Down Reset NVRAM to Default Function Step 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers
99. face script or filter command do not need to be loaded These files are e usr 1lib lp bin fpfilter e usr 1lib lp model the print server 5 6 1 Assigning Host Name and IP Address Use the sysadm to add the print server s P Ethernet address via Networking gt TCP IP gt hosts gt Add 1 Add the print server to the local hosts database etc hosts or the Network Information Services NIS e g Host name the print server2 pr 2 Add the Internet address that the system admin assigned 5 16 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers e g Internet Address 128 222 55 55 Add an alias optional Or press Enter to continue e g Alias List lt press Enter gt 3 Confirm the choices OK to perform operation yes Press Enter the print server2 pr has been added 4 Add an Ethernet address by modifying the local ethers database etc ethers or the NIS ethers database Follow the ensuing path Networking gt TCP IP gt Ethers gt Add 5 Enter the name of the host that was specified in Step 1 Host Name the print server2 pr 6 Enter the the print server s Ethernet address Ethernet Address 00 40 c8 55 55 55 7 Confirm the choices OK to perform operation yes Press Enter the print server2 pr has been added 5 6 2 Installing and Printing with DG UX After adding the IP Ethernet addresses define a printer Before doing so configure the print server if not already done so Use the Use ACK
100. files and how to download them using the laserwriter utility 1 From the Apple menu select Chooser 2 If there is a router select the appropriate zone for the print server 3 Select LaserWriter or any other laserwriter driver 4 Open Advanced Utilities or the the print server utilities folder MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 3 5 Click on the icon for one of the config files It opens TeachText If not use an editor that saves in ASCII text 6 Edit the list of configuration choices 7 Save the list and quit TeachText 8 Open the Apple Printer Utility menu 9 Select Download PostScript File from this menu 10 Select the file to download 11 When downloading is complete quit the program If the print server finds a syntax error it sends a file with the error information The error file is stored as a postscript log 6 4 1 1 Using Setup Printer Information File Use Setup Printer Info to modify the variables for the parallel port The info is stored until the unit is powered off The print server does not know the characteristics of the parallel printer unless it is specifically loaded Note This information is important when using the LaserWriter 8 0 or higher driver versions 6 4 1 2 Using Setup Defaults File Downloading Setup Defaults will change the the print server configuration options Table 6 1 lists the configuration options Default is in parentheses Table 6 1
101. he mouse and follow the arrows to the sub menus 10 4 1 TCP IP Config TCP IP includes the following Each is explained below e IP Configuration e FPFILTER Configuration e LPD Configuration e Restricted Hosts Note The latest version of FastManage has an improved TCP IP Config screen Contact MiLAN Technical Support for information pertaining to earlier versions of FastManage and the TCP IP Config screen From TCP IP Config selections include 1 IP Configuration gt IP Address Properties Enables a user to change a variety of IP options Changes take effect at system reset Options for this menu include Figure 10 9 e DHCP Enable Enables the DHCP feature Default Enabled e DHCP Disable Disables the DHCP feature e IP Address Changes the IP address of a device e g if a device is moved to a different subnet e Subnet Mask Sets the subnet mask address for the device If no IP address is set then default is 0 0 0 0 If an IP address is set then For Class A addresses default is 255 0 0 0 For Class B addresses default is 255 255 0 0 For Class C addresses default is 255 255 255 0 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 10 5 e Gateway Address Sets up the address of the router that routes IP packets across subnets Default is 0 0 0 0 Configure IP Address Properties x C DHCP Enable Obtain an IP address automatically C DH s IP Address 199 86 12 241 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0
102. hecked if IP was selected during setup Strict Name Resolution If this is enabled all device names starting with SNMPA will be treated as NetBIOS names The Enable NetBIOS parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default Do NetBIOS Discovery If this parameter is chosen the software uses SNMP over NetBIOS to find all devices that respond The Enable NetBIOS parameter must be selected to enable this option Not checked by default Default Initialize all the parameters to default values Save Options Saves all changes to the issnmp ini file Cancel Cancels the changes Application Launch Parameters The Application Launch Parameter allows users to name and then launch any other SNMP device To configure the Edit Launch Parameters 1 Select Application Launch Parameters 2 The Edit Launch Parameters menu appears 3 Inthe Object Indentifier of the Device line enter the SNMP device s unique SNMP identifier 4 Inthe Launch App and Cmd Line Paras line enter the name of the application to be launched For MiLAN Technology devices add an s at the end 5 Click Add when you are finished Users are now able to launch that SNMP device 9 5 4 Mib2 System Parameters Note The Mib2 system parameter allows users to identify a workstation 1 If the print server has a telnet password enabled users cannot manage the device with the FastManage software From Parameter
103. ies of Print Servers D This file is on the Advanced Utilities as force_parallel_ binary and force_serial_binary For serial printers replace Parallel_NV with Serial_NV This needs to be done once per port during the life of the printer For HP printers the print server automatically encode PS binary if that mode has been configured by setting the parallel port type to binary hp Only download this file if the postscript binary the print server printer has been enabled and is unsuccessful at printing 6 6 Bi directional Printing from Macintosh Systems Firmware 8 03 supports bi directional printing to any printer that supports the IEEE 1284 bi tronics nibble mode specifications AppleTalk printing protocols are currently the only mainstream printing protocol that query the printer for parameters fonts etc That is why bi directional printing is discussed only in the AppleTalk chapter The print server has bi directional support disabled for each parallel printer default but can be enabled by using a management tool Using a utility establishes a connection to the print server 1 Press N for networks 2 Press A for Apple There will be an enable bi directional port message for each of the parallel ports 3 To enable this support using the Apple Printer utility 4 Copy the Apple Printer utility and setup defaults files from the CD ROM 5 Edit the setup defaults file by double clicking on the file
104. ies of Print Servers e IP Config e NDS Config e Print Server Config 1 IPX Config gt IPX SAP Name Changes the name used by the device in service messages on the IPX network This name displays in Map 1 of the Discovery Application node Default FPXXXXXX where XXXXXX is the last six digits of the MAC address gt IPX SAP Interval Configuring the SAP internal of the device numbers are between 1 6 Default 1 gt IPX Traps gt Enable IPX Traps When enabled the software sends traps to a designated system Default Enabled For more information on traps refer to Traps on page 2 and IPX Trap Hosts next selection gt IPX Trap Hosts Designates to the system where traps will be sent Default for both IPX Trap Host 1 and IPX Trap Host 2 are all zeros gt IPX Enabled Enables disables IPX protocol Default Enabled 2 NDS Config gt Enable NDS Enables disables NetWare Directory Services Default Enabled gt Preferred DS Tree Sets the tree where the print server s server and print queues are defined The name entered must be a valid Tree or Context The field is blank by default gt Preferred DS Context Sets the context where the print server s server queues are defined The name entered must be a valid Tree or Context The field is blank by default 3 Print Server Config gt Queue Scan Rate Sets the rate times per second that
105. igning ip address using dhcp in NT4 0 server assigning ip address using serial connection assigning ip address using static arp method in unix assigning ip address using static arp method in windows clearing burnin mode test in the print server flash upgrade information for the the print server MiLAN Technology LAN product software license information printer compatibility list protocol support with each firmware revision information for serial connection to the the printserver warranty information on Digi LAN print server products configuring the print server setup defaults from Macintosh MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers ntapple txt netware bindery txt nds txt os2 fastsp txt lanwork txt onnet txt os2wlpd txt tcp_other lanwork txt multinet txt onnet txt penfs txt pctcp txt tcpware txt wintcp txt wollon txt unix acct txt banner txt bsd txt diskunix txt fpconfig txt fpfilter txt fpm_news txt fpm_sun5 txt fpmulti txt Ipadmin txt Ipd txt nwp_sun4 txt nwp_sun5 txt nwp_sunx txt rs6k txt sco txt scolpd txt scomem txt solaris txt svr4 txt syslog txt sysv_Ipd txt stsv_std txt trans txt windows311 milanll txt win_smb txt windows95 milanpr txt milanll txt win_smb txt windowsnt nt35Ipr txt MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers printing to the print server from windows NT using appletalk install method for the print server in bindery emulation install method for the print server ina NDS enviro
106. igure 2 6 Telnet d Select and press return e Press Y to enter the config menu f Use the I command to assign a static IP address Enter the IP address that was reserved by the DHCP Manager This stores the IP address permanently in the print server s NVRAM g Select the R command to reset the print server 2 8 Set IP address through Serial Console To make a serial port connection 1 Attach the RJ 45 to DB 9 converter to the PC s serial port 2 Connect one end of the CATS UTP cable straight through to the RJ 45 toDB 9 converter 3 Attach the other end of the CAT 5 UTP cable straight through to the serial port port next to the power connector of the print server 4 Set the PC s hyperterminal properties to the following 9600 baud 8 data bits no parity 1stop bit and On Off None for flow control 5 Plug in the power cable and power it up The time for boot up is about 1 minute 6 Check to see if the LED blinks MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 2 9 2 10 2 9 7 Press the sign on the keyboard at least three times while the Port LED is still blinking 8 The serial port is put in console mode and the following menu screen shows up of Telnet 199 86 12 235 ie Ea Connect Edit Terminal Help FastPort II Console Type S to display status Type D to display configuration Type t to enter config menu miei Figure 2 7 Telnet 9 Select
107. ing Should an interruption during upgrade occur serial flash loading method must be used with the appropriate cable connection Please refer to section F 4 G 2 FTP Flash Uploading This new feature provides yet another means of network flash upgrading for the product Assume that the new firmware is issued in the file 38fp8014 ihx To perform a flash upgrade using FTP follow these steps 1 Open a FTP session with the print server s IP address MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers G 1 Example ftp lt IP address of the print server gt 2 When the FTP client prompts for the user name and password press ENTER 3 To flash upload a file use the command ftp gt put lt file name gt flash Example put 38fp8014 ihx The product will reboot automatically after writing new firmware to the flash G 3 TFTP Flash Upload To perform flash upgrade using TFTP client 1 Connect to the print server s IP address 2 Put the flash file to the remote filename flash The print server will recognize the file as a firmware update and update flash memory Once it is loaded and the checksum values are verified the print server will automatically reset itself and run the new firmware G 4 Serial Flash Upload Feature The product firmware updates are issued to improve product functionality and fix reported bugs The normal advised method of uploading the new firmware is via network Use FTP TFTP webserver or any oth
108. ing the Discovery Application Checked by default Save Maps On Exit When selected this option saves the Map when Discovery is exited Checked by default Save Parameters On Exit This selection saves the options when the Discovery is exit Checked by default Refresh every When chosen this option refreshes the Map every lt n gt seconds Default is 60 seconds Discover When this parameter is selected the software re discovers MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 9 9 10 hosts every lt n gt seconds Default is 90 secs Dead This parameter signifies the number of attempts FastManage tried before marking the node as dead off line Default is 2 unicasts Wait The selection denotes the amount of time the software waits for a reply from a node Default is 1 second Default Map This parameter selects the name of the default Map file map map Map File This parameter enters the path for the Map file Default is C fm Hosts File This parameter enters the path for the hosts file Default is C ETC Bootptab File This selection enters the path for the bootptab file Default is C FM Allow To Edit Hosts File When this parameter is selected the software updates the hosts file if a new host is discovered Checked by default Default Initialize all the parameters to default values Save Options Saves all changes to the issnmp ini file Cancel Cancels the changes Discovery Parameters
109. install sh Choose print server by its model number Choose Option 3 lpsched based systems Select Option 1 Configure New print server to assign an IP address If an IP address was assigned go to step 5 The script prompts for the following information Location to install the host software Host name for Print Server MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Printer name of the device may be same as hostname Interface directory usually has these paths For SCO Solaris DG UX UNIX Ware 2 X and Interactive systems it is usr spool lp admins Ip interface For HP UX and Silicon Graphics systems it is usr spool lp interface For SGI Irix system it is varspool Ip interface For AT amp T and Sequent systems it is usr spool Ip admins lp e Host naming method usually the etc hosts file e Whether or not the IP information about the print server has been entered into the host naming method e Exact type of system e Ethernet address Located on the bottom of the device e IP address given Print Server e The method of assigning the Print Server it s IP address 5 The main menu appears select Option 2 Install a printer or plotter The software prompts for e Type of printer PCL PostScript or ASCII e Printer is connected to the serial or parallel port e Type of banner page 6 Select Option X from the Main menu to exit 5 3 3 Install Script on IBM RS 6000 Use the install sh to install the
110. is successful of Telnet 199 86 12 235 OE xi Connect Edit Terminal Help 4 FastPort II Console Type S to display status Type D to display configuration Type t to enter config menu sit Figure 2 2 Telnet Connection Continued 7 Type and then press return 8 Press Y to enter the config menu 9 Use the I command to assign a static IP address 10 Reset the device by pressing R Setting the IP Address Using RARP 1 RARP queries a server for it s IP address at start up Find the Ethernet address of the print server 2 Add the address to etc ethers or add it to NIS YP master Ethers database If a device named alpha has address 0040C802ABCD enter 00 40 C8 02 ab cd alpha 3 Add the IP address and the hostname to the etc hosts 4 After using NIS for the hosts ethers rebuild the database a Enter the YP directory b Type make and press return c Power cycle the print server 5 Verify that the RARP daemon is running a For BSD UNIX type ps ax grep rarp b For System V UNIX type ps ef grep rarp MIL P3800 Series Print Servers c Type usr etc rarpd a to start the rarp daemon 2 6 Setting the IP Address Dynamically with BOOTP BOOTP allows a client machine to find its own IP address BOOTP is IP UDP based and it can pass through routers 2 6 1 Setting the IP address with BOOTP on Sun 1 Use a text editor to open the etc hosts file 2
111. isables the Ethertalk protocol Default Disabled e gt Ethertalk Phase Sets the compatibility level of the Appletalk network system Default Phase 2 2 Parallel Printer Setup gt Printer 1 This selection sets printer 1 port s parameters Printer 2 optional Sets printer 2 port s parameters Printer 3 optional Sets printer 3 port s parameters Note The number of printers to configure depends on the number of parallel ports on the the print server Parameters for the parallel port includes 3 Serial Printer Setup gt Printer 1 Sets serial port parameters Note The number of printers to configure depends on the number of serial ports on the print server 10 8 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Parameters for the serial port includes Ethertalk serial printer setup x NA MiLAN0728D2 ser1 Postscript binary mode No PS Binary Close Figure 10 12 Ethertalk Serial Printer Menu 10 4 5 SMB Config There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server for a SMB network including SMB Config gt HP DLC Enables disables HP s DLC protocol Default Disabled e gt SMB Enabled Enables disables SMB protocol Default Enabled e gt SMB Names Sets the SMB workgroup and unique identification Default Disabled e gt SMB Share Names Sets the aliases of the printer port Default Disabled Configure SMB ShareNames Name Descrip
112. ke sure the device is setup correctly 11 3 BOOTP Configuration The BOOTP application implements a BOOTP server which allow users to assign IP addresses dynamically to devices on the network MiLAN s network devices implement BOOTP and can obtain an IP address from BOOTP BOOTP looks for the right entry containing the IP and hardware address of the device To launch the BOOTP server in Windows 1 Double click on the BOOTP Server icon 2 Figure 11 3 may appear Select Browse to find this file 3 BOOTP needs a BOOTPtab file usually in the ete directory to operate MiLAN Technology provides an empty BOOTPtab file with 11 2 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers FastManage When this file appears in the field click OK to continue The BOOTP Server menu appears Select Bootptab file Bootptab file could not be found This file is needed for Bootp Server to work properly Bootptab file C ETC bootptab Figure 11 3 Select BOOTPtab File 4 To add a new entry to the BOOTPtab file click Add Entry to BOOTPtab File from the File pull down window BOOTP Server RESET ASSIGNMENT HISTORY notna C Hardware Address Doo OE Paes Oi Bootptab File C FM bootptab Browse Figure 11 4 Add Entry to BOOTPTab File To add a node with an Ethernet address of 0040C8XXXX02 and an IP address of 199 86 11 1 enter 00 40 C8 XX XX 02 in the Hardware Address
113. lay status Type D to display configuration Type t to enter config menu Figure 2 1 Telnet Connection 4 Press and press return 5 Select Y to enter the configuration menu 2 2 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 6 Use the I command to assign a static IP address 7 Reset the device by pressing R 2 4 Setting IP Address with Windows 95 98 NT and 2000 Using ARP or telnet on a Windows systems only works if there is a TCP IP stack on the system and if the print server is on the same subnet as the system Disable DHCP before installation 1 Open the MS DOS prompt 2 Ping any other IP node known machine on the network 3 Set the static ARP entry in the arp table with the following command C gt arp s lt Print server s IP gt lt Print server s MAC address gt Example C gt arp s 199 86 12 1 00 40 c8 33 23 12 4 Issue command arp a at the DOS prompt to make sure that the entries are listed in the arp table one for the host that was pinged and one for the print server just entered If the entries are not listed proceed to step 5 otherwise go directly to step 6 5 At the DOS prompt enter this command C gt arp s lt Print server s IP gt lt Print server s MAC address gt lt your PC s IP gt Check the arp table to make sure that the entry is listed 6 Make a telnet connection Type telnet lt IP address of the MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 2 3 print server gt If a connection
114. mpatible printer Add Printer Wizard Click the manufacturer and model of your printer If your printer came with an installation disk click Have Disk If your printer is not listed consult your printer documentation for a compatible printer Manufacturers Printers Apple Laserwriter Apple Laserwriter II NT Apple Laserwriter Personal NT Apple Laserwriter Il NT Apple Laserwriter IIf Apple Laserwiter Ilg a Annie aserwriter Plus Have Disk lt Back Cancel Figure 3 27 Select Printer Screen 6 Click the appropriate port for the printer and then click Next e g MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 28 Figure 3 9 shows c spool Epson 4300 as the designated port Add Printer Wizard C Program Files Adobe Acrobat 4 0 PDF Outputs pdf Communications Port A G Communications Port Creates a file on disk a 1 Printer Port u s Figure 3 28 Select Port Screen 7 Type in a name for the printer and select this printer as the default printer for Windows based programs Adding a name is optional Click Next 8 A new printer has now been added Print a test page to make sure the print server is correctly configured 9 Click Finish when done MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 29 Chapter 4 Installing and Printing on NetWare Chapter 4 describes how to use PCONSOLE for installing configuring and managing the print server on NetWare networks 4 1 Note
115. n printers For serial printers it reports the number of pages printed For parallel printers it reports the name of user machine file and date and time the job was sent closewait Ensures that all data is sent before the socket is closed It is required in some System V machines 5 10 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Table 5 3 fpconfig Options dobanner Look for file banner in the current directory and submit it before the job banner is normally generated by an output filter program pba Adobe PostScript binary conversion for non binary printers pbh HP PostScript binary conversion for non binary printers 5 5 2 1 About Option Classes Class Table 5 3 supports printing to the first available printer from a list of printers according to the following e The first printer is the one specified on the command line e Next one is hostname port in the fpconfig file e Subsequent printer names are taken from the Class list fpfilter connects to the first printer If not it tries to connect to the next printer If still unsuccessful fpfilter goes back to the first printer 5 5 2 2 About Options Startstring and Endstring If startstring and startfile are specified then startstring is sent before the startfile Endfile is sent before the endstring e To indicate Escape use M To indicate Control use C e To set an HP LaserJet IIIsi to landscape mode type st
116. nitialize all the parameters to default values Save Options Saves all changes to the issnmp ini file Cancel Cancels the changes 8 2 2 2 Discovery Parameters The Discovery Parameters menu Figure 8 4 configures the parameters used for the discovery nodes Chapter 9 The following section gives information about the discovery Enable IP When selected this enables IP protocol If not selected FastManage will not perform any SNMP over IP operation Checked MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 8 5 8 6 by default r PROTOCOLS 4 T Enable IPX Requires Novell s IPX Client IP PARAMETERS IPX PARAMETERS IV Use DNS Z Do IPX Routing Discovery Options IV Poll IP Range I Do IP Broadcast C Every 0 Hsec r Discovery Options M Do IPX Discovery r GENERAL DISCOVERY OPTIONS T Poll hosts List I Poll Map List IV Find Only MiLAN Devices Default Cancel Figure 8 4 Discovery Parameters Use DNS When checked and the IP NetBIOS protocols are all enabled FastManage may be unable to resolve a NetBIOS name e g SNMPA0702CA Turn this parameter Off if this is the case The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Not checked by default Poll IP Range When this option is selected the software polls all 254 hosts of the subnet from X Y Z 1 to X Y Z 254 The Enable IP parameter must be selected to enable this option Check
117. nment MiLAN Technology s FastSpool DOS 2 printing installation Printing to the print servers with Lan Workplace for DOS the print server printing installation on OnNet pctcp txt OS 2 WARP Ipd printing to the print server Printing to the print servers with Lan Workplace for DOS MultiNet software for DEC VMS compatible with the print server the print server printing installation on OnNet pctcp txt Printing from Sun s penfs software to the print server Using FTP s PCTCP with Fasport TCPware for DEC VMS printing to the print server WinTCP from VAX VMS systems printing to the print server Wollongong PC TCP IP software configuration General Accounting Information on BSD Systems Generating banners on BSD UNIX How to install the print server on BSD UNIX Instruct for extracting install script from disk image using fpconfig to define fpfilter options on BSD list of fpfilter Binaries compiled on latest OS Using fpmulti with Sun NewsPrint Using fpmulti to print on Solaris 2 X FPMulti binary description and install instructions System V installation of the print server using lpadmin BSD UNIX Ipd protocol the print server installation Adobe s NewsPrint installation on Sun4 x Non Postscript printers using NewsPrint on Solaris 2 x Generic installation procedures for NewsPrint IBM AIX RS6000 installation method for the print server SCO UNIX installation for the print server using fpfilter SCO installation for remote printing using lpd S
118. ob e Remove the formfeed option from the fpconfig file Use install sh On System V or RS 6000 systems e Specify an m argument to fpfilter MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers E 1 When using direct LPD support send data to the ASCII queue as described in Chapter 6 E 2 2 Cannot Print to the serial printer If the printer is ASCII or can be put in ASCII mode or PCL 1 2 3 4 5 Reset the printer Check queue name Put it on line ready to accept data Set the serial printer port to 9600 baud no parity 8 data bits 1 stop bit and Xon Xoff None Power cycle the unit A test page is printed Serial printing problems may be due to wrong cable usage Make sure that the unit s serial port setting match those in its attached printer E 2 3 User Cannot Print or Ping the Unit Note Check the etc hosts file and see whether the IP address is set correctly For Yellow Pages or NIS use the following to see the hosts database ypcat hosts Use this to see the correct IP address for the host alpha ypmatch alpha hosts If a message that states can t bind user is not using NIS For NIS with the changes made to the etc hosts or etc ethers file update the files by typing cd var yp make RARP or ARP do not go through routers To assign an IP address for either use the serial terminal or put the print server into the same segment Use ARP followed by telnet to assign the IP addr
119. om Settings lt Back Next gt Cancel Figure 3 9 Printer Name MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 7 8 Select LPR as the protocol and type in any of MiLAN Technology s pre defined queue names such as raw ascii etc Be sure they are typed in lower case 9 Check the box LPR Byte Counting Enabled Configure Standard TCP IP Port Monitor Por Settings Port Name iP 199 96 12 107 Printer Name or IP Address fi 99 686 12 107 m Protocol C Raw LPR Raw Settings Port iumber 515 r LPR Settings Queue Name raw V LPR Byte Counting Enabled rM SNMP Status Enabled Community Name pubiic SNMP Device Index fi cancel _ Figure 3 10 Counting Enabled 10 Click OK to proceed Note Make sure that you have your printer s driver diskette ready 11 Click Next and select Finish 12 After the steps are done the following screen is displayed 3 8 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard 3 xj Completing the Add Standard TCP IP Printer Port Wizard You have selected a port with the following characteristics SNMP No Protocol LPR RAW Device 199 86 12 107 Por Name Domi_TCP Adapter Type To complete this wizard click Finish lt Back canes Figure 3 11 Completion Screen 13 Click Finish to finish the installation 3 1 2 3 TCP IP Socket Support 1 Click Setting and Printer 2
120. ommands e Direct LPD support e Host software Direct LPD is used on UNIX systems that support remote printing to BSD UNIX spoolers On System V systems system administration utilities built into the OS provide quick set up menus for printing to remote systems Host software allows for customized print jobs It can be integrated into environments to do tasks such as ASCII to PS conversion banner generation and status reporting 5 3 MiLAN Installation Software MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 1 5 2 5 5 3 1 Log in as root onto the system Create a directory to load the software e g type mkdir MiLAN and press Enter and enter that new directory To load the software from the disk type tar xvf dev lt device gt where lt device gt is the name of the drive usually FDO Type 1s to list the files The following information appears README FIRST unpack sh dist tar Z licence txt Type unpack sh to launch the install script Installing Logical Printers Logical printers can be created with characteristics that print to the same printer To install a second printer J 2 Be Run the install sh At the Installation Options menu choose Option 2 Specify a second printer and answer the prompts as before 5 3 2 Installing on System V UNIX The install sh creates a dummy device adds a printer and starts the Ipsched process To install on System V 1 2 en 4 Run the
121. port site Note This method only works after the IP address is assigned to the print server via another method refer to chapter 2 MIL P3800 Series o rint Servers 7 4 Configuring the Print Server from Networked Workstations The print server can be configured remotely in many ways The features are mostly redundant so that the print server can be managed regardless of the type of system being connected Users can access the print server to view store settings inside the device or users may access it to do real time monitoring 7 4 1 Multi Protocol and SNMP Stations The print server supports SNMP management over TCP IP IPX NetBIOS NetBEUI and AppleTalk network protocols The print server supports MIB 2 IEEE parallel and serial MIBs and MiLAN s private MIB The IEEE parallel serial MIBS and MiLAN s MIB can all be downloaded from our FTP site 7 4 2 TCP IP Stations 7 4 2 1 Using FastManage For Windows with TCP IP station use FastManage to identify and configure the print server on the network Chap 9 through 12 7 4 2 2 Using Telnet Diagnostic Monitoring Establish a telnet session with the command telnet lt ip address of the print server gt Type s to display status Type D to display configuration Type to enter config menu If nothing is pressed messages will be received as they appear 1 To start the command mode press and press Y for yes 2 The following commands should appear
122. print server will come up and advertise itself in the default workgroup called workgroup When a user browses the network using Net View or Network Neighborhood applications he will not see the print server or even see a workgroup called workgroup This is because there is not at least one workstation in the workgroup with the print server The print server cannot become a BrowseMaster for a NetBIOS Workgroup To solve this problem 1 Connect to the print server 2 Store a new NetBIOS workgroup name using either FastManage package or any other MiLAN Technology tool 3 Once connected to the print server go to the Network Protocol section then to the Microsoft SMB subsection 4 Change the property called NetBIOS Workgroup 5 Change the workgroup name to the same as in the workgroup that is MyCompany Users should now be able to browse the print server just as they would MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers C 1 any normal NetBIOS client As an alternative 1 Use the net use and or net view command without having the print server in the same workgroup as the workstation 2 Fill in the proper NetBIOS name of the print server 3 Type net at the DOS prompt to get more info on the utilities C 2 After Upgrade An older the print server that has recently been flash updated to version 8 03 may be configured with the invalid workgroup WORKGROUPS Reset the device to factory defaults This will giv
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124. rWriter Driver 8 only 2 Select SetUp Printer Info and Update Info 3 Exit program MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Appendix G Upgrading Flash EEPROMS MiLAN Technology offers the latest firmware release for the print server to be downloaded free from our web or FTP site This firmware release has support for various protocols and updates for printing via the print server Flash EEPROM in the print server allows users to upgrade to the latest release without replacing the EEPROM chip Warning Do not flash upgrade the print server unless recommended by the MiLAn Technology Technical Support department G 1 Network Upload Procedure Contact MiLAN Technology Technical Support refer to Appendix J for the latest file 3XFPyyyy ihx where the first two characters identify the print server type for example 38 is for the MIL 3800 series The last digits represent the firmware version for example 803 is for release 8 0 3 G 1 1 Uploading the Flash Image To perform a network based upgrade 1 Verify that the network upload option is enabled refer to G 6 2 Print the file to a parallel port without sending the print job through the printer s driver The print server recognizes the file as a firmware image and loads it into memory instead of printing it Once it is loaded and its checksum values are verified the print server automatically resets itself and then operates with the latest firmware version Warn
125. rameters Reset the Print Yes or No Forces the print server to reboot Server Set IP address Set IP Address 0 0 0 0 Use to specify an IP address for the print server using dotted decimal format Reset NVRAM_ Yes or No Forces NVRAM values to be returned to their defaults to defaults Parallel Port Parameters Enable Bi direct Yes or No Enables bi directional printing see chapter 11 6 4 1 3 Using Setup Font List Note The print server can be told the fonts available for printers connected to the parallel port If the printer fonts do not match the defaults download a modified Font List file to the print server 1 Locate the Setup Font List file in the Advanced Utilities or the print server Utilities folder PU ON 8 eae oe Double click on the Setup Font List icon Edit the list of fonts to match your printer s Save the list and quit TeachText Open the LaserWriter Utility Select Download PostScript File from Utilities Select the file Setup Font List When the file completes downloading quit the utility The font list remains in the print server s memory until it restarted The font list for the serial port of the print server does not need to be changed MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 5 6 5 Printing PostScript Binary Files 6 5 1 Selecting Binary PostScript Encoding Some graphics programs generate data that is binary encoded If so low graphics may p
126. rature test Operating 5 C 50 C MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers B 3 Parameters Minimum Maximum Temperature test Packaged 25 C 70 C B 9 System LEDs Table B 5 System LEDs PNET _ Transmitting on the networ reen LENK SO inked to the networ cal ee FCO PROB Seral port activity reon B 10 Power Supply This unit can be powered from the printer connector or will use external power supply 5VDC 1 0 A minimum MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers B 4 Appendix C Troubleshooting MS Window C 1 MS Windows Level Browsing and Sharing Abilities When a client machine comes up on the network it usually comes up in a pre configured workgroup The default workgroup for all NetBIOS machines including the print server is named Workgroup When a user looks for devices on the network they will normally see only those devices in their specific workgroup Windows 95 allows a user to browse multiple workgroups choose a specific workgroup and then view the devices inside that workgroup There must be at least one PC workstation in each workgroup to store a list of all the other devices in that workgroup That PC is the BrowseMaster The BrowseMaster is checked by the NetBIOS clients without any user intervention The print server cannot act as a BrowseMaster For example a NetBIOS workstation is on a workgroup for example MyCompany and the print server is now installed onto the network the
127. riate operating system and click Next 14 Select whether or not a test page will be printed 15 Select Finish 3 2 4 Printing using a Third Party TCP LPR LPD Stack If the system has a third party TCP IP stack use an LPR client LPR clients allow users to send print jobs to an LPR host an LPR LPD host the print server acts as an LPR host Check your TCP IP documents to verify that LPR LPD can be used to print Most LPR clients require two values e IP address of the print server e Name of the remote printer If the IP address field has the print server s IP address then the remote printer name will be one of the list of names that the print server supports See Table 5 1 page 5 5 in Chapter 5 for pre defined queue names 3 2 5 Printing from Windows 95 98 Using MiLAN Technology LPR 3 2 5 1 Installing the MiLAN Technology LPR Program 1 Configure the TCP IP protocol Refer to the Windows 95 documents MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 25 2 Assign an IP address to the print server Using telnet RARP DHCP etc 3 Run the digilpr exe file to extract DigiLpr 4 Run the Setup program for DigiLpr 5 Choose a directory to install the software package Default is C digilpr Click Browse to select another directory iz ojx Setup will install DIGILPR in the following directory To install to this directory click Next To install to a different directory click Browse and select another directory You can
128. rictions The print server can service up to 16 queues on a total of 16 servers The print server cannot service bindery queues and NDS queues on the same server i e two connections one bindery one NDS on the same server The print server can service NDS queues in only one tree When logged into NDS as an NDS print server configure the print server with only one NDS printer object Specify such things as which port to send data LPT or COM by creating special queue name suffix The difference between configuring bindery and NDS queues For servicing Bindery queues the print server will read a configuration file stored in the sys login milan directory residing in the Preferred Server This refers to the Bindery File Server that holds the configuration file For servicing NDS queues the print server must be configured with a context name tree name This can be done with FastManage When configured for NDS the print server does not use a config file It logs into the context where it was configured locates the printer and then queues to be serviced MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Regarding manual configuration of print server queues and printers for the print server within PCONSOLE or NWadmin Bindery print servers are directly attached to bindery print queues NDS servers are attached to a single printer which is attached to possibly many print queues When configured to service both Bindery and NDS qu
129. rint fine but high graphics may not To prevent this enable the binary capabilities The print server does not support binary printing default 1 Edit the following two lines to the Setup Defaults file Insert the binary name within the parentheses Parallel Port Type Binary hp can be No Binary or Binary adobe or Binary hp Serial Port Type Binary hp can be No Binary or Binary adobe or Binary hp 2 For each port serial or parallel choose one of the options No Binary Binary adobe Binary tek Binary hp 3 Download the new setup file with the Apple Printer utility 4 Reboot the print server 5 Verify the new setting in Chooser Non binary printers appear as before Default names are FPXXXXXX par1 PS FPXXXXXX ser1 PS All queue names are based on the parallel ports name If a printer is named Alpha and is configured for binary support for serial parallel the following printers appears in Chooser Alpha Alpha PS Binary Alpha S Alpha S PS Binary Note Only use the Namer utility to change regular names The name of the PS Binary printer does not need to be changed directly Before a standard Adobe PostScript Level 2 printer can be used with the binary encoding the following PostScript fragment may need to be downloaded to the printer as a separate file AD Parallel_NV lt lt Password 0 Interpreter PostScript Protocol Binary gt gt setdevparams 6 6 MIL P3800 Ser
130. rint server name should appear Use NetWare s capture or nprint to send data to a NetWare queue For Windows use the Print Manager to redirect output to one of the NetWare print queues 4 2 Configuring in a Bindery Environment 4 2 1 4 2 2 The print server can be configured to service up to 16 print queues on 16 bindery style NetWare servers NetWare 3 x If configuring the print server for queues on NetWare 4 x or 5 x servers use an alternate method see section 4 4 Using PCONSOLE fo Install a Print Server It is necessary to create a configuration file named FPXXXXX and store itin SYS LOGIN milan Be sure that SET ALLOWS UNENCRYPTED PASSWORDS ON is set in the autoexec ncf T Create a print server called FPXXXXXX with PCONSOLE where XXXXXX is the unit s six digit Ethernet address Create a queue for the print server using PCONSOLE Assign the queue created to the print server FPX XXX XX and power cycle the print server 10 To send data to the serial port instead of parallel default create a queue name ending with S using PCONSOLE Adding Users to the Notify List with PCONSOLE 1 In PCONSOLE select the following sequence of options a Select Print Server Information and choose a print server b Select Print Server Configuration c Select Printer Configuration From the configured printers list select Printer0 Configuration The Define Printer Type box appears S
131. rinter Objects in this container will be displayed from which you can select the one you want to use e Public Access Printer Use an existing printer agent representing a public access printer If you select this option a list of available public access printers will be displayed 6 Confirm the Printer Agent name default is the name of the new printer you are creating and browse to select the NDPS Manager you want to assign it to e At the Gateway Types window select the Novell gateway MIL P3800 Series Print Servers Click on Next The Configure Novell PDS dialog appears 7 Configure the Novell PDS by selecting the Printer Type as NONE then click OK The Configure Novell Port Handler configuration wizard appears Configure the Connection Type as Remote LPR on IP then click Next The Configure Port handler for Printer Agent wizard appears For the Host address enter the IP address of the print server Print Server or enter the hostname as defined in your DNS server 10 For the Printer Name enter the pre defined queue name for the print server See below for Pre defined queue name selection Make sure the Printer name is added in lower case Click on Finish 11 For the printer driver selection choose None from the top of each list for each client operating system 12 Click Continue The main browser window appears with your new controlled access printer listed Workstation users
132. rinter Wizard Local or Network Printer Is the printer attached to your computer defect my printer Figure 3 1 Add Printer 4 Type in the printer name and then click Next or click Browse to browse to select a print server or even type in a URL name if the print server is accessible to your web browser Add Printer Wizard Locate Your Printer How do you want to locate your printer Figure 3 2 Browse for the Printer MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 3 Add Printer Wizard a Browse For Printer RS Locate your network printer X Shared printers 3 Microsoft Windows Network 8 LAN CONNECT B sw TOKEN amp WORKGROUP E 38TEST 8 WOANT40PDC xliteAppleShar Xerox DocuPrint N24 N32 PS z m Printer information Comment Parallel Port 1 Status Ready Documents Waiting 0 lt Back Next gt Cancel Figure 3 3 Type the Printer Name 5 If this is a new installation have the printer s driver diskette ready Follow the steps on the screen to complete the installation After the steps are completed click Finish Once it is done you will see a screen such as Add Printer Wizard Completing the Add Printer Wizard You have successfully completed the Add Printer wizard You specified the following printer settings Name PARALLELI on FP020C0B Default Yes Location Comment To close this wizard click Finish Beck cae Figure 3
133. riter printers For bi directional printing support across the serial interface for LaserWriter II and II NT printers use the following procedure The printer needs to be initialized with correct data and parity values Do this by either making a telnet connection or by connecting a terminal to the printer s serial port 1 Set the Laser Writer in PS Batch Mode with the values for RS 232 set for 9600 baud RS 422 set for 9600 baud with port values of 8 data bits no parity check 1 stop bit and Xon Xoff 2 Turn on the LaserWriter It prints a test page with current settings 3 The PS code that follows is used to switch the LaserWriter into 8 data bit PostScript batch mode with mark parity Note The characters and following comments are not necessary Enter the following commands through the serial port If using telnet enter telnet lt IP address of the print server gt from a UNIX host Otherwise connect a terminal directly to the printer using a serial cable and enter serverdict begin 0 exitserver This exits the printer server loop statusdict begin Start modifying settings 25 9600 67 setsccbatch set the 25 pin RS 232 9600 Baud port 8 data bits end This ends the mode switch Yroutine If using telnet use Control right bracket to return to the telnet prompt and then issue the quit command to exit 4 Using the same options for connecting to the printer use the following PostScript code to test the mode change
134. rom the left The Map Title Editor menu appears Delete the old name and type in a new Map name Click OK To perform this task from the pull down menu select Change title from the Options pull down menu 9 4 2 Host Name Address For each thumbnail shown on the Map there will be a name below device Each protocol has its own criteria for example For an IP device the address is its IP Address The name for an IP device is Host Name This is derived from the host file If an entry for an IP address is not found UNKNOWN is displayed See Section 9 4 9 to change a name For an IPX device the address is its IPX address The name for an IPX device is the IPX SAP Name This name cannot be changed A NetBIOS unit doesn t have an address so 0 0 is shown MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers e The name for a NetBIOS device is the NetBIOS Name This cannot be changed 9 4 2 1 Changing from the Node Name to an Address 1 Click the Node Address icon fifth from left on the tool bar The node switches to the address 2 To change to a name click the Node Address icon again To perform this task from the pull down menu select Show Node Address Name from the Options pull down menu 9 4 3 Send Broadcast To the right of the View as host name or IP address icon is the Send Broadcast icon This will discover new host on the subnet When clicked on an IP broadcast over the network Host that reply ar
135. rrs file on systems running BSD UNIX It is configurable on most System V machines See the UNIX system documentation for more information 7 4 3 AppleTalk Stations MiLAN Technology includes an Apple Printer utility on the CD ROM AppleTalk users have a limited status checking support with the Apple standard printing utilities To cause a status window to remain up when printing 1 From the Apple pull down menu select the Chooser 2 Choose a LaserWriter 8 x driver 3 Disable background printing 7 4 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers This window tells the Mac user if the print server is being used by some other protocol or how many bytes of a job has been sent LaserWriter 8 users can also choose setup and get info to get information on the printer connected to the print server If the printer is parallel users can either use the Apple Printer utility to change the settings permanently or enable MiLAN s bi directional printer port and talk directly to the printer Copy the Apple Printer utility and its set of download able files Modify the setup defaults file the print server settings or setup printer info file LaserWriter 8 get info query data appropriately After modifying these files 1 Choose the print server 2 Runthe Apple Printer Utilities 3 From the Utilities pull down menu choose Utilities send PostScript File 4 Click on the just modified file This downloads the file to the print serv
136. rt where the print job will go Fp000005 Ss parallel Figure 3 18 The print server Port Select 5 The Do you want to create a printer on your local machine that prints to this device dialog box appears Click Yes on this dialog box Figure 3 19 Printer dialog box MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 15 3 16 6 When prompted select the driver for the printer connected to the specific printer port Add Printer Wizard HP DeskJet HP DeskJet 1200C MS HP DeskJet 1200C PS HP DeskJet 310 Printer Figure 3 20 The print server Printer Select 7 Choose a local name to call this printer Add Printer Wizard a Figure 3 21 Printer Name MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 8 When prompted choose to print a test page A test page is printed out on the print server connected printer Add Printer Wizard og Re SS Figure 3 22 Test Page Menu 9 The Windows system is now configured to print to the print server 3 1 6 IPP Printing With Windows 2000 1 Select Add Printer from the Start Menu click on Settings then click on Printers 2 Click on the Add Printer icon then select Network Printer 3 Locate the printer and enter the URL of the printer as shown in the figure below MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 17 3 18 Add Printer Wizard 3 Locate Your Printer How do you want to locate your printer If you don t know the name of the printer you can browse for one on the n
137. rver will service only one printer per NDS Server Select New Print Queue and press Enter Type in the name of a Queue The queue name is less than 256 characters including the context Default queues are serviced by the printer attached to the print server s parallel port To force the print server to service queues with the serial port the name must end with an S For a four port print server force it to service the queue MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 3 with the second parallel or serial port and append the queues with p2 or V p3 or V p4 or 92 9 Select Printer Type and press Enter 10 Select Other Unknown 11 When finished press esc to Save changes The volume field is filled in by PCONSOLE with the name of the nearest volume This field contains the name of the server volume that will hold the queued jobs for the print server 4 3 1 1 Additional Queues 4 3 2 The print server has the name of a printer to service The printer contains a list of print queues belonging to it To add queues to the print server service 1 From the Available Options menu select Printers 2 Select the printer created and press Enter 3 Select Print Queues Assigned Pressing ins allows a user to choose from a list of created queues 4 Create new print queues by pressing ins again Once an object is created it must remain in that context until deleted By default quick setup cre
138. s select Mib2 System Parameters The Mib2 System Parameters menu appears Fill in the required parameters MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Get Community This parameter is required to be set Default public Set Community This parameter is required to be set Default private Description This information will be returned by the FastManage software in response to an SNMP query Default is the FastManage s SNMP agent Name This information will also be returned by the FastManage software in response to an SNMP query Field is blank by default Location This information will also be returned by the FastManage software in response to an SNMP query Field is blank by default Contact This information will also be returned by the FastManage software in response to an SNMP query Field is blank by default Enable Agent Checked by default Save Saves all changes to the issnmp ini file Cancel Cancels the changes MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 13 Chapter 10 The Print Server Application Chapter 10 gives a description of the the print server application The print server Application is used to manage SNMP devices 10 1 The Print Server Application FastManage supports most SNMP devices including the MIL P3800 The software detects devices during Discovery see Chapter 10 The PrintServer MGR icon allows users to open a specific the print server To do so 1 From the FastManage for th
139. s Supports Adobe HP postscript binary encoding schemes 6 1 2 Newly Supported Apple Printer Utility Functionality Utility Restart printer Performs a soft reset on the print server Utility Get page count Gives page count since last reset Utility Print configuration page Prints a page showing all the current non volatile parameters on the print server Utility Name printer Changes the printer s name File Display available fonts Shows a list of offered fonts The print server stores all options in NVRAM including font lists and LaserWriter 8 values PostScript version etc Therefore these variables will not need to be downloaded at each power cycle MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 6 1 6 2 6 1 3 6 1 4 6 2 Note Apple Applications How the Print Server Operates The print server performs POST and then advertises its ports to AppleTalk The print server operates as an AppleTalk node Any PS printer connected to the print server emulates a laserwriter printer Select the print server connected printer from Chooser and print to it as if it were a LaserWriter printer Printer Communications Handling Apples require a response from the printer When printing to a LaserWriter 6 x or 7 x driver for the first time its application resets the printer and sends a laser prep file This file contains the PS initialization for the printer On the serial port the printer and the Apple
140. s printing to LPD printers To install Note 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 2 S es 9 Print a test page to find out the firmware version of the print server Load the TCP IP Protocol and Related Components software Do this only once for each system that uses LPD Add the LPD printer to Windows NT 3 5 Installing LPD Support on Windows NT 3 5 Open the Control Panel and select the Network icon Click the Add Software button Select TCP IP Protocol and Related Components from the Network Software pull down list Click Continue and check TCP IP Network Printing Support Click Continue Insert the CD ROM to load drivers Select TCP IP and click Configure Select an IP address and a subnet mask Do not choose DHCP unless it is used Click Ok 10 When they are loaded reboot the system MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 23 3 2 2 2 1 ae cm oS a i a Adding an LPD Printer to Windows NT 3 5 From the Control Panel select the Printers icon From the menu bar click on Printers Select Create Printers Enter a name for the printer in the Name field Select the driver from the list next to Printer Driver In the Print To box scroll down and select Other Select LPR Port If the LPR Port does not appear restart from 1 Click OK Enter the host name or IP address of the print server in the Name or address of host providing LPD field 10 Enter the queue name in the
141. s the file to the printer Ipq P lt printer gt Displays any active queues for the printer Ipc stat lt printer gt Interactive program for printer management Ipc clean lt printer gt Remove all print jobs for the printer Ipc restart lt printer gt Restart this lt printer gt queue MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 15 Table 5 4 BSD Print Commands lprm p lt printer gt lt job gt Removes the lt job gt from the print queue Note These parameters require root access 5 5 5 2 Customizing BSD Installation Create the fpconfig file in the spool directory i e sd entry in printcap since this is where daemon executes fpfilter The fpconfig file should be owned by the daemon 5 5 5 3 Banner Pages and Accounting Information To print a banner page the install script must be told to print a banner It adds the command bannerfirst to the fpconfig file To configure an existing printer to send a banner remove the existing printer and run the installation script again Note The banner generating programs are supplied as is To print accounting info add the line acctg to the fpconfig file This causes accounting information to be written to the file specified by af lt filename gt in the printcap entry 5 6 Installing and Printing from Data General s DG UX The print server supports DG UX 5 4 Release 2 01 and above Current versions of DG UX fully support the print server meaning that an inter
142. selected to enable this option Checked and 3 times are the default e Poll hosts List If this is checked FastManage reads through a Map list If a name is in the hosts file it will then use SNMP to discover a host Checked by default e Poll Map List If selected this option discovers each host in a Map through SNMP Checked by default e Find Only MiLAN Technology Devices If checked this option finds and displays only MiLAN Technology devices Not checked by default e Enable IPX If this option is selected FastManage enables IPX protocol If not selected FastManage will not perform any SNMP over IPX operation This protocol is checked if IP was selected during setup e Do IPX Routing If this is enabled user s can manage IPX devices across the router If the device name is specified in the host file then that device will be discovered the Enable IPX Do IPX routing and the Poll hosts list all have to be enabled e The Enable IPX parameter must be selected to enable this option Checked by default e Do IPX Discovery Use SNMP over IPX and find all devices that respond The Enable IPX parameter must be selected to enable this option Not checked by default e Enable NetBIOS When selected this option enables NetBIOS using the NetBEUI protocol If not FastManage will not perform MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 11 9 12 9 5 3 any SNMP over NetBIOS operation This protocol is c
143. src s qdaemon 5 5 5 Manual Installation on BSD UNIX Systems Host software is installed as an input filter Host sends a print job to the print server and provides a transparent printing environment Install host on every host that prints to the print server Install sh can be used to install a the print server printer plotter using either host software MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 5 13 or LPD support A sample install session is available in examples install doc directory Using MiLAN s host software fpfilter Note The following installs a printer named beta that is attached to a the print server named alpha When installing LPD replace beta and alpha with your printer s name and host names respectively 1 Copy the following entry into your etc printcap file betalthe print server host software printer Ip dev beta mx 0 rw sb lf usr adm beta errs af usr adm beta acct sd usr spool beta if usr local milan fpfilter 2 Create a new dummy device with these commands touch dev beta chmod 755 dev beta chown daemon beta chgrp daemon beta 3 Create the spool directory Change it ownership to daemon mkdir usr spool beta chown daemon usr spool beta chgrp daemon usr spool beta chmod 755 usr spool beta 4 Create log accounting files Change ownership to daemon touch usr adm beta errs touch usr adm beta acct chown daemon usr adm beta errs chmod 64
144. t 1 If you are using a serial port on the print server the ending would be _s1 as in raw_s1 Add a New Queue x Essential Setup Information 1 These three steps must be done in order to create a new print queue Fill in the hostname or the tcp ip address of the fastport 204 19 56 131 hoose from this list of printer queues on the fastport raw_p1 v reate a local printer port name Epson 4330 Optional Setup Information Banner Jobname Cancel anner UserName Figure 3 26 Essential Setup Information Menu 3 In the next field select the name for the printer port MiLAN Technology recommends using a port name of eight characters or less MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 3 27 4 Click once on the Add button to add the queue created 5 The MiLAN Technology Lpr window appears displaying the queue created 3 2 5 3 Adding a New Printer To add a new printer using Add Printer Wizard 1 From Start gt Settings gt open Printers 2 In the Printers menu double click Add Printer 3 In the Add Printer Wizard menu click Next to begin 4 In the next menu check Local Printer and click Next 5 In the next menu scroll down and select the appropriate printer If the designated printer came with an installation disk click Have Disk If the designated printer did not come with an installation disk see that printer s documentation for a co
145. t specify the full path of this file gt 9 When prompted for the BOOTP Device Adapter Type select Ethernet and then select Apply 10 Exit out of SAM and restart BOOTP 11 Power cycle the print server It broadcasts the BOOTP packets and 2 7 obtains a response from the server to use the IP address specified DHCP Support NT 4 0 server The print server operates as a client with a DHCP server Setup is not necessary After POST power on self test it sends out DHCP packets The server searches through a list of addresses allocated for clients and then assigns the first available number The IP address stays until power off or its lease expires The DHCP server must be on the same subnet as the client If not on the same subnet a helper is needed on the router 2 7 1 Setting an IP Address Using the DHCP Manager The steps listed below show how to use the DHCP Manager to set an IP address for the print server 1 From Start select Programs gt Administrative Tools gt DHCP Manager In the DHCP Manager menu double click the DHCP server you want to manage Click the scope in which you want to add reservations MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 2 7 From the Scope menu click Add Reservations Enter the IP address and MAC address as shown in Figure 2 5 The MAC address is printed on a label on the print server oS oe e The system requests an IP address from the DHCP Server returns
146. the reserved IP address Add Reserved Clients x IP Address 199 86 12 186 Unique Identifier Joosoc80728d2 Client Name MiLAN Print Server Client Comment Print Server in Support Department Close Help Options Figure 2 5 Add Reserved Clients Menu Note Values added to the Unique Identifier Figure 2 5 must be entered correctly This entry is the MAC address for the print server The print server sends this MAC address in a request to the DHCP server for an IP address If it is entered incorrectly it will not match the value sent by the print server The DHCP server then assigns it any available IP address instead of the IP address reserved Note f the print server does not respond to the reserved IP address print a test page Verify the MAC address from the test page 8 Do the following to set the IP address permanently a Verify that the print server is responding with the new IP address by pinging the IP address reserved From a DOS prompt type ping xx xx xx xx and press return where xx xx xx xx is the IP address reserved b If ping is successful type telnet xx xx xx xx and press return c The following displays if the connection is successful 2 8 MIL P3800 Series Print Servers o amp Telnet 199 86 12 235 ie Es Connect Edit Terminal Help 5 astPort II Console Type S to display status Type D to display configuration Type t to enter config menu F
147. the TFTP icon fourth from right The Flash Download TFTP menu appears Figure 9 4 2 Type the device s file name into the Download File Name field or click Browse to search for the files to download HOST LIST s 137 242 177 30 199 86 12 140 199 86 12 141 Download File Name S 199 86 12 150 199 86 12 156 199 86 12 159 TFTP Status 199 86 12 163 i 199 86 12 164 Connections fe 199 86 12 176 in progress 199 86 12 177 199 86 12 183 Packets fo 199 86 12 188 sel Figure 9 4 Flash Download TFTP 3 If the devices IP address does not show up in the HOST LIST cancel out of the TFTP screen and click on the Show Node Properties icon refer to section 9 4 9 4 When the desired IP address is entered click Download to download a file with ihx hex or chx extension To perform this task from the pull down menu select TFTP from the Action pull down menu 9 4 8 Close All Windows Icon On the tool bar to the right of the Show Node Properties icon is the Close All Windows icon When clicked on this icon simply closes all current windows on the Map 9 6 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 9 4 9 Show Node Properties The Show Node Properties allow users to change a name of a node make a device invisible or display traps for a device To display the Node Properties menu Figure 9 5 click the Show Node Properties icon second from right SDistOrely Hani
148. the print server scans the Novell queue for print jobs valid numbers are between 1 6 Default 1 gt Frame Type Selects NetWare s frame type Default Autosensing gt Configuration Server Is the server where the print server s bindery configuration file resides The field blank by default gt Not ification Enabling this parameter allows the print server to send status to users on the Notify list Default Disabled 10 4 3 General Config There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server for a general network including 1 Community Strings Sets SNMP community strings Default for Get Community String is public Default for Set Community String is private MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 10 7 2 Flash Config gt Allow download Allow disallow the upgrade of the Firmware Default Allow 10 4 4 Ethertalk Config FastPort Windows Application Untitled ioj x Status Help Exit ICPAIP Config gt Novell Contig gt General Config gt Zone Name SMB Config gt Parallel Printer Setup gt Enable Ethertalk NetBIOS Config gt Serial Printer Setup gt Ethertalk Phase Figure 10 11 Ethertalk Config Selections There are a series of choices that can be selected to configure the print server for a Ethertalk Config including 1 General Config gt Zone Name Logical group where the print server exists e gt Enable Ethertalk Enables d
149. the recently assigned printer Figure 4 3 NetWare Administrator Root BABA Ma Object View Options Tools Window Help E Root a digi lanconnect a MiLAN L 2 1956789 amp fp123456 28 Everyone L l PEARLY NDSTest amp FP3100_GOPAL H fpdead06_printer HB FPGOPAL_P1 laserjet3p amp local_p amp PRINTERS9 HB test_dead06 H xerox_4900 amp asdf B Fp06041e amp Fpdead03 amp Fpdead04 amp FPDEADO6 amp fpdead0 Figure 4 3 Context Tree 2 In the next window click Assignments 3 In the Assignments menu click Add 4 When the Select Object menu appears select the print queue created and click OK 5 Click OK if this is correct The print queue to a printer is now assigned Now use FastManage to setup aDS Tree Name and DS Context Name 4 4 Creating Printer in NDPS to Print to the Print Server Novell r Distributed Print Services NDPS printers added to the NDS tree by NetWare r Administrator are referred to as controlled access printers As NDS objects access to them is controlled and they are no longer available directly as public access printers They are only available to the workstation user through the NDS object list instead of through the list of public access printers Currently MiLAN Technology Print Servers support NDPS by creating Remote LPR Printers using TCP IP protocol Remote printers created on NDPS using SPX IPX are not c
150. tion Type Number r Modify Values PARALLEL1 parallel port 1 Parallel 0 Haus SERIALI serial port 1 Serial 0 PARALLEL2 parallel port 2 Parallel 1 SERIAL2 serial port 2 ial 1 Eee RENI Type Number Network mE Close To configure a ShareName Click on a row in the list box make edits in the Modify Values group and then click Modify button Figure 10 13 SMB Share Name Menu MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers 10 9 10 4 6 NetBIOS Config There is one choice that can be selected to configure the print server for a NetBIOS network NetBIOS Config gt NetBIOS Names Sets the NetBIOS group and unique name This parameter cannot be modified 10 4 7 Status Menu Currently these parameters are reserved 10 5 Help Menu The Help menu has two options Using Help and About the Print Server Manager 1 Using Help A standard Windows help file appears 2 About the Print Server Manager Displays information on the current the print server being used including e Firmware revision e Name of device being managed e Get community string being used e Type of device recognized by FastManage 10 10 MIL P3800 Series of Print Servers Chapter 11 Ping and BOOTP Server Chapter 11 covers both the Ping and BOOTP applications Ping is used to see whether or not a device is alive BOOTP allows users to dynamically assign IP addresses to a device 11 1 Launching the Ping Application Ping s
151. to carriage return line feeds asciifilter lt program gt Call program to convert PostScript from ASCII bannerfirst Look for file banner in current directory Submit it before the job bannerlast Look for file banner in current directory Submit it after the job startfile lt file gt Send file before the job endfile lt file gt Send file after the job startstring lt string gt Send string before the job endstring lt string gt Send string after the job CLASS lt hostname port list gt If printer is unavailable program tries to print to the print server port as listed left to right CLASS alpha pl alpha p2 beta p beta s mail lt user name gt Sends E mail after the job is printed or in case of error errorfile lt filename gt program lt program gt Stores errors that occurred in filename Execute program after the job prints or in case of error Passes the error code syslog Records error messages in the syslog file checkserial Sends a Control T to check the serial printer s status before sending a print job Only for PostScript printers If no printer is attached data is not sent checkparallel Checks for the parallel printer before sending a print job Some parallel printers do not make the parallel status Busy when turned off If this option is not used while the print server is in standard mode then print jobs will be lost acctg Performs accounting o
152. urrently supported 4 4 1 Prerequisites to creating the printer in NDPS To create a controlled access printer in NDPS for the print server on MIL P3800 Series Print Servers 4 7 4 8 4 4 2 your network you must meet the following prerequisites e Have at least Read Write Modify and Create rights for the destination container where the associated Printer object will reside e Be designated as a Manager of the NDPS Manager that will control this Printer Agent e Have a Broker running e Have created an NDPS Manager object e Have assigned an IP address to the print server print server e The print server must have firmware 3 5 and above Procedure 1 In NetWare Administrator select the container where you want the NDPS Printer object to reside 2 From the Object menu select Create The New Object dialog appears 3 Select NDPS Printer The Create NDPS Printer dialog appears 4 Type a name of your choice in the NDPS Printer Name field 5 At the Printer Agent Source field select the source of the Printer Agent and press Create The following options are available e Create a New Printer Agent If you select this option you will be asked to select either the Novell Gateway or a third party gateway and to configure the new Printer Agent e Existing NDS Printer Object Use a printer already configured as a controlled access printer NDPS Printer Object If you select this option a list of current NDPS P

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