KCodes 6 Series USB 2.0 / 3.0 Device Server User’s Manual Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing 601/601n/611/612/612ac/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.
Parameters, you can reset this Server back to Factory Default, which will restore most of the settings. For details, please refer to the chapter “Restore Factory Defaults”. 1.2 Customer Support Should you require any technical assistance, please contact your product reseller. Or you can visit our website for latest product information. This document is subject to changes without prior notice. Chapter 2 2.
5. 6. USB Host Ports: For 601/601n/604n: USB 1.1/2.0 low, full, and Hi-Speed compliant For 611/612/612ac: USB 1.1/2.0/3.0 low, full, and Hi-Speed compliant Indicators For 6 Series For 601 v2/611/612 Link Status is lit while network is applied. If it is not lit, it indicates that this server does not connect to the network. Status Indicator blinks to indicate network activity. For 601n v2/604n v2/612ac 2.4 Power Indicator is lit while power is applied.
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, 100baseTX and /1000Base-T RJ-45. 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. 5. Login with administrator ID (default: admin) and its password (default: admin). © 2019 KCodes Corporation.
. Click Wireless icon. 7. In order to join an existing wireless network, you have to set the correct SSID, and the correct security method with the correct key information. If the wireless network is secured by WEP64 or WEP128, key index and WEP key must be set correctly. 8. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
9. If the wireless network is secured by WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK, the key formats, shared key and encryption must be set correctly. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
10. Click Submit to save your settings. And the server will reboot. 11. 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. If a network cable is plugged-in, 601n/604n will always connect to the network through the network cable.
3.3.5. Setting the IP Address Using DHCP Follow the instructions below to get an IP address using DHCP: 1. 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 2. Activate the scope. The Server automatically gets the DHCP parameters.
5. Login with administrator ID (default: admin) and its password (default: admin). 6. 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. 7. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
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. We developed a new technology called “NetUSB” to achieve this goal. Basically, the “NetUSB” is a “USB over IP” technology that transparently redirects all USB packets to TCP/IP network channel. “NetUSB” allows you to use USB devices as if they were connected directly to your PC although they are actually remotely connected to the 601/601n/604n/611/612 USB device server.
4.4. Installation of USB Device Driver Some USB devices, like printers or MFPs (multifunction printers), require to install vendor-supplied driver (usually on CDROM). For those USB devices that do not need to install driver, please skip this section. 1. Insert the CDROM into the CD drive and run the “autorun” program. 2. Follow the instructions of the installation program to install driver. 3. When the installation program asks you to plug-in the USB device, run the “Control Center”. 4.
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. In the Control Center, click the USB device server that has the desired USB device attached. Click the desired USB device. 3. Click the “Connect” button.
4. 5. 6. 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.
After the driver is installed as described in section 4.4, you can see a newly created printer in the Control Panel’s “Printers and Faxes”. Follow the steps below to do a NetUSB auto-connect printing. 1. In the Control Center, click the USB device server that has the desired printer (or MFP) attached. 2. Click the desired printer (or MFP). 3. Click the “Auto Connect Printer” button and choose “Set Auto-Connect Printer”. The following figure will appear. 4. 5. Choose the desired printer.
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.
If you would like to break the association between the Windows printer and the physical printer, just click on the association and click the “Delete” button in the “Auto-Connected Printer List”. 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.
4. Choose one of TWAIN or WIA item. Click “OK”. The following window will appear. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
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”. You can see the storage icon in the system tray. Then just use the new disk as a general disk.
4.9. Request to Connect If a USB device is manually connected by any other user, basically you can not connect that device. However, we offer another mechanism called “Request to Connect” to solve this inconvenience. For example, there are two computers – TESTES and TEST. Now the owner of “HP Photosmart 2600” is TEST. Then, the TESTES computer wants to use this HP printer. The user on the TESTES computer can click the “Request to Connect” button in the Control Center. The following window appears.
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. Instead, it just minimizes itself to the system tray. There are two ways to really close the Control Center. The first way is choosing “Exit” item in the “File” menu in the Control Center. The second way is right-clicking the icon of the Control Center in the system tray and choosing the “Exit” item 4.11.
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 FAT12/16/32 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.
5.4. Using Shared Storages by SMB/CIFS Method for Windows 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Connect a USB storage device to this product. Select My Network Places. Click Display the Computers of Workgroup. Double click Microsoft Windows Network icon. Double click the Workgroup that the Server belongs to. The default Workgroup name is “WORKGROUP”. You can refer to Control Center or the Server’s web pages to get it. You will see that the Server is displayed as its server name.
2. 3. 4. Enter “open server’s Server Name” or “open server’s IP address”. If you have changed the default FTP port : 21 to the new value, you have to add the new port number in the tail of command as “open server’s Server Name ftp port” or “open server’s IP address ftp port” .
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). © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series 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. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
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. Storage Access Mode: Set storage access mode as server or NetUSB mode. UPnP Setting: Enable or disable the UPnP function. File Server Codepage: Setup language for file server code. © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
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. Re-type Password: re-confirm the password.
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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.
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.
TCP/IP Automatically get IP by DHCP: Enabled Static IP: Disabled - IP Address: 192.168.1.100 - Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 User Accounts Administrator: admin Password: admin © 2019 KCodes Corporation. All rights reserved. 6 Series User’s Manual V1.
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 until USB1 and USB2 LED indicators simultaneously blinks. (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. Perform a TFTP server.
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This device contains licence-exempt transmitter(s) that comply with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s licence-exempt RSS(s). Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause interference, (2) this device must accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.