KCodes 6 Series v2 USB 2.0 Device Server User’s Manual Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing 601/601n/604/604n USB Device Server (in the following referred to as “Server”). This Server is designed to connect your Multifunction Printer, Scanner, Fax, Multifunction Printer, Hard Drive, iPhone, iPod, USB Digital TV Tuner, Digital Camera, USB Webcam, USB Speaker, USB CD, USB DVD to your network, allowing all network users’ access to these shared USB devices. 1.
Chapter 2 2.1 Product Overview Package Contents Verify that nothing is missing from the package by using the checking list below. Please contact your dealer if anything is missing or damaged. All packing materials are recyclable. Please confirm the items in the package below: This Server ( 601/601n/604/604n) CD (Control Center and User’s Manual and Quick Installation Guide) Power Adaptor 2.
For 601n v2/604n v2 2.4 LAN Indicator blinks to indicate wired network activity. If it is lit, it indicates the wired network is applied. If it is not lit, it indicates that the server does not connect to the wired network. WLAN Indicator blinks to indicate wireless network activity. If it is lit, it indicates the wireless network is applied. If it is not lit, it indicates that the server does not connect to the wireless network.
Chapter 3 Basic Installation 3.1. Connecting the Hardware 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Make sure that your USB devices are switched off and that the Server’s Power Adapter is disconnected. Connect the USB devices to the USB ports with the USB cables. Connect the Server to the network with a twisted-pair category 5 cable, 10baseT or 100baseTX. Turn on the USB devices and make sure it is ready for use. Connect the Power Adapter to the Server.
If the wireless parameters are not correct or not set yet, you have to use LAN to access USB Device Server Control Center. 3. If the tool finds USB device servers in your local area network, then you have to select a server from the server list. 4. Double click the highlighted server (or click the “Configure Server” button) to get the server’s web pages. Click CONFIG icon. © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
5. Login with administrator ID (default: admin) and its password (default: admin). 6. Click Wireless icon. 7. There are two ways to connect to wireless network. One is “Scan AP”, the other is “Manual connect”. 8. By “Scan AP”, click “Enter” and choose the SSID you want to connect. After select, you have to enter the password. 9. By “Manual connect, to join an existing wireless network, you have to set the correct SSID, and the correct security method with the correct key information. 10.
11. If the wireless network is secured by WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK, the key formats, shared key and encryption must be set correctly. 12. Click Submit to save your settings. And the server will reboot. 13. You have now finished the procedure of setting the wireless parameters After properly configuring the wireless parameters, you can remove the network cable and reboot the 601n/604n. 601n/604n will then connect to your wireless network. 601n/604n will detect if a network cable is plugged-in or not.
network through the network cable. Otherwise it will always connect to the network through wireless module. Once 601n v2/604n v2 connects to the network, either by network cable or by wireless module, all operations to use USB device server are exactly the same. 3.3. Assigning an IP Address to the Server 3.3.1. Preliminary 3.3.2. IP Address 3.3.3. If you have a DHCP server on your network, your Server will receive an IP address automatically.
1. 2. 3.3.6. Edit or create a scope in the DHCP manager of the DHCP daemon. The entries included in this scope should contain the following parameters: range of IP addresses subnet mask default router IP address DNS server IP address lease duration Activate the scope. The Server automatically gets the DHCP parameters.
6. 7. Click the button corresponding to your choice of IP setting methods (static or dynamic using DHCP). When assigning a static IP address you also have to define Subnet Mask. Click Submit to save your settings. And the Server will reboot. You have now finished the procedure of setting the IP address. Chapter 4 Using the USB Device Server 4.1. Introduction The goal of this produce is to provide the USB device server in a single product.
software operation that simulates an actual USB device plug-in. That is to say, when you do a “connect” operation in the Control Center, PC can then detect a USB device’s plug-in, although actually you do not plug in any USB device. Similarly, the “disconnect” operation is a software operation that simulates the disconnection of the USB device. Once the connect operation is successful, the operations to use that USB device are just the same as if the USB device is directly connected to the PC.
6. Click the “Connect” button. Then the message “Manually Connect by your_computer_name” will be shown, as the following figure. 7. 8. Now, the installation program will detect the USB device and continue to install driver. After the installation is completed, click the USB device in the Control Center and then click the “Disconnect” button to disconnect the USB device. Now the driver of your USB device is installed. 4.5. Using the USB Device Server 1. 2.
3. Click the “Connect” button. Then the message “Manually Connect by your_computer_name” will be shown. 4. Now, PC will detect the plug-in of the USB device. The “connect” operation is a software operation that simulates an actual USB device plug-in. That is to say, when you do a “connect” operation in the Control Center, PC can then detect a USB device’s plug-in, although actually you do not plug in any USB device. Then, just use the USB device as if it is connected directly to your PC’s USB port.
4.6. Auto-Connect Printer The method described in section 4.5 is so-called manual-connect, which means users must manually connect the USB device before using that device, and must manually disconnect the USB device after using the device, otherwise nobody else can connect this device. However, for printers and scanners (and MFPs), the USB device server supports auto-connect so users don’t need to manually connect/disconnect. This and the next sections show you how to do this.
4. 5. Choose the desired printer. The desired printer must be the Windows printer (this is a logical printer) that matches the printer attached on the USB device server (this is a physical printer). Then click the “Apply” button. Then, the printer will be marked as an “Auto-Connected Printer” in red. If you choose “AutoConnected Printer List” in the “Tools” menu, you can see a newly created item that describes the association between the Windows printer and the physical printer on the server.
6. 7. Then try to issue a print job to the desired printer. You will see the Control Center will automatically do a connect operation. Then, the print job will be issued to that printer. Even you already properly setup an auto-connected printer, the Control Center must be running (in the background) while a print job is issued. This means you’d better run the Control Center every time after you login Windows.
4.7. Network Scanner For NetUSB scanning, we recommend you use Network Scanner as the following steps. 1. 2. In the Control Center, click the USB device server that has the desired MFP (or scanner) attached. Click the desired MFP (or scanner). 3. Click the “Network Scanner” button. Then you can see that the Control Center will automatically do a “connect” operation. The following window will appear. 4. Choose one of TWAIN or WIA item. Click “OK”. The following window will appear.
5. 6. Follow the usual steps to do scanning. After the scanning, close the “Auto-Connect Scanner” window. At this moment, Control Center will automatically do a disconnect. 4.8. USB Storage You must use “manually connect” for USB storage. After you connect a USB storage, like the following picture, your PC will have a new disk. If the USB storage is a flash drive, the new disk is a “removable disk”. © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
You can see the storage icon in the system tray. Then just use the new disk as a general disk. After you finish the disk operations, click the storage icon in the system tray and choose “Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device” to remove the USB storage, as the following figure. Then, in the Control Center, click the USB storage device and click the “Disconnect” button to disconnect the USB storage device. 4.9.
At this moment, the user on the TEST computer will see the following window, indicating that another computer – TESTES is requesting to use the HP printer. The user will choose to accept or reject. If accepted, the Control Center on TEST will automatically disconnect the device and the Control Center on TESTES will automatically connect that device. 4.10. Quitting the Control Center The Control Center doesn’t really quit if you click the “X” box (close box) at the top right corner of the window.
4.11. Limitations There are some limitations to use the NetUSB technology. 1. 2. Only supports Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8. Windows 98/ME is not supported. Only one PC can get the ownership of the same USB device at the same time. © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
Chapter 5 File Server This chapter describes the file server function of the Server which allows USB storage devices to be shared across a network by using SMB: NetBIOS over TCP/IP and FTP protocol. 5.1. Preliminary 1. 2. 3. This product supports a file format of FAT32 and NTFS. However, the “write” operation on NTFS is only supported in NetUSB mode. Please refer to the NetUSB Mode.
5.2. Connecting USB Mass Storage to the Server LAN HUB/Switch The Server Storage 5.3. Supported Codepages - What is codepage? Used by the system to encode and interpret string characters. Codepage formats are not the same for each language. Some languages, such as Japanese have multibyte characters, while others, such as English and German, need only one byte to represent each character. - Filename Encoding of FAT File System This is known as an 8.
The Server supports Windows codepages. If users want to communicate files using FTP client tool or SMB on Windows 98/Me/2000 with the Server, they have to set their Server codepage to be same as the codepage that their Windows PC is using. 1. 2. - FTP SMB on Windows 98/Me/2000 Configuring the Server’s Codepages Users can use the following methods to set the Server’s codepage. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Start Control Center and Auto-searching Server window will appear.
password to login to the Server. You can add user name and password in User Account box by the Control Center or the Server’s Web page. Note: If you use SMB on Windows 98 SE/ME, you must login to your Windows 98 SE/ME using the same user name as in the Server’s User Account. 9. The shared folders will be listed as USB1_DyPz, and USB2_DyPz where Dy represents the y-th disk and Pz represents the z-th partition with respect to USB1 port and USB2 port. 10.
Chapter 6 The Server’s Web Pages 6.1. Introduction The Server runs the http server, httpd on TCP port: 80. Users may use the web pages to see the Server’s system status and configure the Server. 6.2. Using the Server’s Web Pages 6.2.1. Displaying Server Status Click on the “STATUS” icon to see system status, network status and Wireless Status (only for 601n/604n). © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
6.2.2. Setting up Server Configuration To set up the Server configuration, click on the “CONFIG” icon ad then the system will request user to enter administrator (default: admin) and password (default: admin) to login. General Configuration Server Information: You have to set the Server Name, which is the name to represent the Server. TCP/IP: You have to set the Server’s TCP/IP configuration to connect TCP/IP network. Please see Chapter 3 Basic Installation for more details.
UPnP Setting: Enable or disable the UPnP function. File Server Codepage: Setup language for file server code. Administrator: You can change administrator name and password. If you forgot administrator name and password, you must perform Restore Factory Default action by plugging in the power adaptor while pressing the Init button. Please refer to the chapter “Restore Factory Defaults”. Administrator: enter your desired administrator name. New Password: enter your desired password.
Maintenance If you want to restore factory default values of the Server or upgrade new firmware, you can use the Maintenance tool. Restart: click this button to restart (reboot) the Server. Factory Default: click this button, the Server will restore factory default values. Firmware Upgrade: click Browse to find the firmware file to be upgraded. Click Upload to upload the firmware into the Server. © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
Chapter 7 Troubleshooting This chapter provides useful information to help you resolve difficulties that you may experience with your Server. Fault symptoms, possible causes, and remedial actions are provided within a quick reference table. This Server’s USB ports only support MFPs, printers, scanners, mass storage, and USB cameras. 7.1.
7.2. Firewall If a firewall software has been installed on your PC, it may block the communication between the PC and the USB device server so that the USB device server can not work properly. To solve this problem, either disable the firewall or configure the firewall to allow the following TCP and UDP ports: 7303, 7305, 7411, 20005 © 2014 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series v2 User’s Manual V1.
Chapter 8 Restore Factory Defaults You may restore the Server’s default parameters by one of the following methods. 8.1. Using the Server’s Web Pages 1. 2. 3. 4. Go to the Server’s web page and click CONFIG Enter administrator (default: admin) and password (default: admin). Click Maintenance. Click Factory Default. 5. Click Yes to confirm 8.2. Using Init Button Turn on server and wait until you can see it on control center, press the initial button over 10 sec.
Chapter 9 Upgrade Firmware This chapter describes how to upgrade firmware. Please follow the following Procedures: 9.1 Using the Control Center 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Open Control Center. It will automatically search the existing Servers and display their statuses. Select the Server that you want to upgrade the firmware. Double click the selected Server to get the serve’s main web page. Click CONFIG icon. Login the Server with Administrator (default: admin) and Password (default: admin). Click Maintenance.
Chapter 10 The Init Button The Init button is used for maintenance: Simultaneously press Init button and turn on (by plugging in the power adaptor) the Server will reboot. (For 601/601n, only USB LED indicator will blink.) After that, the Server will do the following tasks: Perform a Factory Default restoration of the server, which will restore most of the parameters and settings to factory default values.
FCC Statement Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
