Instant EtherFast© Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Use this User Guide to install the following Linksys products: • EtherFast 10/100 2-Port Switched PrintServer (EFSP42) • EtherFast 10/100 3-Port Print Server (EPSX3) • EtherFast 10/100 1-Port Print Server (PPSX1) User Guide
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Instant EtherFast® Series Table of Contents EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Introduction Your New EtherFast 10/100 PrintServer Introduction Your New EtherFast 10/100 PrintServer PrintServer Package Contents Getting to Know the Etherfast 10/100 PrintServers The 1 and 3-Port PrintServers The 2-Port Switched PrintServer PrintServer Hardware Installation Part I- Windows Driver Setup (for 98, 95, and NT 4.0) Part II- Windows 98 & 95 Port Configuration Part II- Windows NT 4.
Instant EtherFast® Series 2 EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers PrintServer Package Contents EtherFast 10/100 3-Port PrintServer (EPSX3) Check to see that your Linksys product contains all of the items listed below. If any items are missing, contact your Linksys dealer.
Instant EtherFast® Series Etherfast 10/100 PrintServer Features • Bidirectional 1, 2, and 3-Port PrintServers Serve Both 10BaseT and 100BaseTX Network Hardware • Simultaneously Supports Multiple Print Jobs • Runs with Virtually All Laser, Ink Jet, Bubble Jet, Color, and Dot Matrix Printers • All PrintServer Ports Support Parallel and Bidirectional Printers • Stand-Alone Unit - No Dedicated PrintServer PC Required • Easy-to-Use Management Utility • Compatible with Both Half and Full Duplex Networks • On-Boa
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Your 1 and 3-Port Printserver LEDs Dip Switches Settings (1 and 3-Port Models Only) Following are the LEDs on the front of your PrintServer. The guide below tells you what each LED means. Not all PrintServer models will have all the LEDs. Power The Power LED lights up green when the PrintServer is powered on.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Getting to Know the 10/100 2-Port Switched PrintServer (EFSP42) The Front Panel LEDs (EFSP42) The Rear Panel Ports The 10/100 2-Port Switched PrintServer LEDs The 10/100 2-Port Switched PrintServer Ports These 3 LEDs apply to the 2-Port Switched PrintServer only (EFSP42). Power Port This port on the back of your unit connects your Switch’s AC Power cord. Parallel 1, Parallel 2 These two Parallel (LPT) Ports connect to your printers.
Linksys Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers PrintServer Hardware Installation Connecting Your PrintServer to your Network Overview Connecting the Power The following instructions will get your PrintServer hardware installed and powered on your network. The PrintServer does not have an ON/OFF power switch. Whenever its AC power adapter is plugged into a power supply, your PrintServer is powered on. The PrintServer can be powered on before, during, or after your network.
Instant EtherFast® Series Connecting Printer(s) to Your PrintServer 1. Connect your printer(s) to one of the PrintServer’s parallel (LPT) ports with your printer cable. Some printers, especially bidirectional models, may require special shielded cabling. Consult your printer’s user guide for cabling specifications. 2. Power on your printer(s).
Instant EtherFast® Series 1. Click on Start, Run, and enter D:\Driver\Win9xnt\Setup.exe. Click OK. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 4. The Select Components window appears. If your computer is the network administrator’s computer, check Install TCP/IP Setup Program (System Administrator only). Otherwise, select the default, Install Linksys PrintServer Driver. Click Next. 2. The Install Wizard window appears. Click Next. 5. Accept the default Program Folder. Click Next. 3.
Instant EtherFast® Series The window below will appear as the files are copied to your computer. 6. Before the file copy finishes, the Configure PrintServer window will pop up again as a pre-test. Click Cancel to complete the file copy. To check for your successful file copy, click on Start, Programs, Linksys PrintServer Driver, and check to see that TCPIP Setup is on its subfolder. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 7.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Part II - Windows 98 and 95 Port Configuration Installing the Printer Driver for Each Printer Overview 1. Click on Start, Settings, and Printers. This section configures your Windows 98 or 95 computers to give them printing abilities to the PrintServer. 2. If no printers are installed, install the printer driver(s) per the directions from the printer’s manufacturer, as if the printer is a “local” printer attached directly to the PC.
Instant EtherFast® Series 5. When the Properties window appears, choose the Details tab. Click on the Add Port button. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 8. Click OK. The Configure PrintServer window appears, shown below. 9. Enter the IP address or the Default Name of the PrintServer in the Device Name field. If you are not sure what the number is, click on Browse and choose from the list that appears, or see page 10. The Add Port window will appear, shown below.
Instant EtherFast® Series 11. If you are using PrintServer with more than one parallel port, choose the PrintServer parallel (LPT) port connected to the newly installed printer. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Part II- Windows NT Port Configuration Your PrintServer is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0 environments. This section will show you how to set up each port you use on the PrintServer so all the computers on your networks can print from the PrintServer. 12.
Instant EtherFast® Series Installing the NT Printer Driver EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 4. When the Properties window with the name of your printer appears, click on Ports and then Add Port. 1. Click on Start, Settings, and Printers. 2. Install the printer driver per the directions from the printer’s manufacturer, if you haven’t already. 3. After the printer driver is installed, click on the printer to be configured, then right-click to select Properties. 5.
Instant EtherFast® Series 26 EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 7. When your PrintServer is found, the Device Select window appears, as shown below. Select the PrintServer you want to configure and click OK. 9. A Output Select window appears. Select the port that your printer is attached to and click OK. Click OK again when the Configure PrintServer window appears. 8. Enter the Default Name on page10 for your PrintServer in the Device Name field.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 12. Right-click on the printer and select Properties, as shown in step 2. NetWare Driver Setup 13. Select the General tab and click Print Test Page. Overview 14. If your printer prints, click OK in the Properties window and close all opened windows. Your NT PrintServer installation is now complete. The EtherFast PrintServer provides fully functional printing services in NetWare 5.x, 4.x, and 3.x network environments.
Instant EtherFast® Series Before You Begin EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Pure IP NetWare 5.x Setup These instructions set up the PrintServer to work in a pure IP NetWare 5.x environment. Consider the following example: At this point, you must have: • The PrintServer hardware completely installed. • Your NetWare network fully operational. • Administrator or Supervisor rights on the file server(s), or be logged on as an Administrator or Supervisor.
Instant EtherFast® Series 6. Type a new name into the NDPS Manager Name field at the top of the window, e.g., P_MGR. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Creating NetWare 5.x NDPS Printer(s) After creating an NDPS Manager, you can now create NDPS printers by using NetWare Administrator. To create Public Access Printers using the NDPS Manager Object in the NetWare Administrator application, follow these steps: 1. Run NetWare Administrator. 2.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Configuring Public Access Printers (For your reference only) IPX Printing in NetWare 5.x, 4.x and 3.x To enable your computers to print through the PrintServer, follow these steps. Before you begin, make sure you install IntranetWare Client (Version 2.2 or higher) on each computer that will be using NDPS printers. Print Server Mode To install an NDPS printer on your computer, use the NetWare Printer Manager utility.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers quickset SC0C8A02 /un=PS /q1= epson Bi-Admin: PrintServer Management The above example installs the PrintServer SC0C8A02 as a NetWare PrintServer in the current location. Its name is now "PS," and “epson” is the name for the first printer queue. Overview Remote Printer Mode The instructions below configure the PrintServer for Remote Printer Mode, and establish communication between it and your NetWare 4.x network.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Starting the Bi-Admin Management Utility Using Bi-Admin 1. To start the Bi-Admin program, click on Start, Programs, Linksys PrintServer Admin, and then PrintServer Bi-Admin. If the Bi-Admin icon has been created, you can just double-click on it instead. You can drag the shortcut icon onto your Desktop for easy access to the Bi-Admin program. Obtaining Device Information: 2.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Changing the Device Name Refreshing the Device List: The Refresh Icon To force Bi-Admin to refresh its list of PrintServers on the network, click Refresh, and Bi-Admin will scan the network for available PrintServers to update the Default Names, Device Names, and Printer Port charts.
Instant EtherFast® Series Attaching Bi-Admin to a Remote PrintServer The Bi-Admin program can locate Linksys PrintServers on networks other than your own, given your network is running TCP/IP across a WAN or other network-to-network link via a router. To attach Bi-Admin to a remote Linksys PrintServer located on a remote network, click on Init Device, then Attach. The Add Cross Segment PrintServer window will appear. Enter the IP address of the remote unit, then click Set.
Instant EtherFast® Series Troubleshooting If your PrintServer is not working correctly, follow the advice in this chapter. If you have trouble printing, see the Hardware section first, and then go to the Printing section. If this Troubleshooting section does not resolve your problem, please see page 91 to contact Linksys Technical Support for help. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers General Printing Issues Problem 1: Solution 1: Hardware Issues Problem 1: Solution 1: All the PrintServer's LEDs are off.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers inspecting your printer, contact Linksys Tech Support. 5. The test files you printed in step 3 should be in the queue directory. Print these files to the local printer using the COPY command with the /b option. Example: copy /b test.txt LPT1 Note: Windows-only printers may not print the diagnostic page. 6. Compare the printouts from the PC and the PrintServer. If the printouts are the same, then the problem is NOT the PrintServer.
Instant EtherFast® Series Problem 3: Solution 3: EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers My PrintServer is configured as a NetWare PrintServer, and cannot log in to a file server. Try the following: 1. Get the PrintServer information using PSCONFIG or Bi-Admin.
Instant EtherFast® Series Problem 5: Solution 5: My PrintServer cannot print the jobs sent to the print queue. Try the following: 1. Check if the printer attached to the PrintServer is online. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Problem 7: Solution 7: PSCONFIG or Bi-Admin shows "No Response." This may be due to the following: · The network traffic is busy now. Wait for a minute and then try it again. · The PrintServer is not powered on. Power it on. · The network cable is disconnected. Check the cable.
Instant EtherFast® Series Problem 11: Solution 11: The "String Before Job" and/or "String After Job" set tings in the Logical Printers don't work properly. · Check the length of the control strings. No string can exceed 15 characters. · Check that the control strings are in HEX.
Instant EtherFast® Series Work off-line option is OFF. 8. If the printer is connected and powered On, the printer icon should no longer be grayed out, and you should be able to print. Problem 3: Solution 3: I connected and configured a WPS (Windows Printing System) printer as described, but I can't get the print job to print. WPS printer drivers poll the printer before sending print data. Since the printer is networked, the printer is not found and no data is sent.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 12. Click on the Details tab. Appendix 13. Change the Print to the LPT port number you selected in step 8 of these instructions. DHCP Support for the PrintServer 14. Click Apply, then OK to finish. Finally, reboot your PC. Note: Linksys does not provide any technical support for problems with NetBEUI. Consult your operating system documentation if you need help.
Instant EtherFast® Series Setting Up TCP/IP and IPX Protocols Setting Up TCP/IP in Windows Before a computer can communicate with the PrintServer, it must be configured with the TCP/IP protocol. If you know how to set up TCP/IP on your computers, do so now. Otherwise, use the guidelines below to help get TCP/IP installed on all of the computers that need PrintServer access.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers TCP/IP Setup for Windows NT 4.0 IPX Setup for Windows NT 4.0 1. Click on Start, Settings, and Control Panel. Double-click on the Network icon. 1. Click on Start, Settings, and Control Panel. Double-click on the Network icon. 2. When the Network window appears, click on the Protocols tab. Click on the Add button. 2. When the Network window appears, click on the Protocols tab. Click on the Add button. 3.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Types of Cabling There are different grades, or categories, of twisted-pair cabling. Category 5 is the most reliable and widely compatible, and is required for Fast Ethernet. Straight Through Cabling You can buy Category 5 cabling that is pre-made, or you can cut and crimp your own. Category 5 cables can be purchased or crimped as either straightthrough or crossed.
Instant EtherFast® Series Parallel Port Pin Assignments Pin Signal Name Direction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18-25 + + + + + + + + + + + GND Strobe Data Bit 0 Data Bit 1 Data Bit 2 Data Bit 3 Data Bit 4 Data Bit 5 Data Bit 6 Data Bit 7 ACK Busy Paper End Select Auto Feed Error Init Select In Ground To printer To printer To printer To printer To printer To printer To printer To printer To printer To Server To Server To Server To Server To printer To Server To printer To printer Ground
Instant EtherFast® Series Note: Contrary to NetWare Setup, the NDS context does not start with a period. The context must begin with the name of the organization where the PrintServer is being installed. If the organization where the PrintServer is being installed is a organizational unit, then the organization must be listed, (separated by a ‘.’ period). 8. Leave the Master File Server field empty. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Creating a Printer Resource 1. Right-click on Context. Click Create. 2.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Assigning a Queue to the Printer Directing the Printer to the Printer Resource 1. Double-click on the Printer object in the context. The Printer window will appear. In the window, click on the Assignments tab, then Add. 1. Double-click on the Print Server object in the context. The Print Server window will appear. Click on Assignments, followed by Add. 2. The queue you just created will appear in the Available Objects window.
Instant EtherFast® Series NetWare 5.x and 4.x with Windows Remote Printer Mode The instructions below explain how to manually configure the PrintServer for Remote Printer Mode, and establish communication between it and the rest of your NetWare 4.x network in a mostly Windows environment. PSERVER must be loaded and configured properly on your file server before continuing. Consult your NetWare documentation for information on how to do this.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers Creating a Printer Resource Adding More Than One Printer (for EPSX3 and EFSP42) 1. Right-click on the Context again. When the popup menu appears, scroll down to Printer and double-click on it. If your PrintServer has more than one parallel port and you want to add more than one printer, repeat all of the steps from “Creating a Printer Resource” on the previous page. 2. Enter a name for the printer to be attached to the PrintServer.
Instant EtherFast® Series EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers NetWare 4.x with DOS 5. Make sure the Port is set to the correct PrintServer device port. Print Server Mode 6. The Location item should be set to Auto Load. When you finish configuring the printer, press Esc. The instructions below explain how to establish communication between the PrintServer unit and your NetWare 4.x network in a DOS environment. Assigning Queues to Printers 1. Log into your NetWare network as an Administrator. 2.
Instant EtherFast® Series Configuring the Print Server Hardware 1. Run the PSCONFIG program located in the D:\Utility\DOS directory on the Linksys PrintServer CD. 2. The program will display an Active Device List table with a list of active PrintServers on the network. Each PrintServer has a name, default name, network number, and number of available ports. 3. Select the PrintServer device you just installed and press Enter. A list of available options will appear.
Instant EtherFast® Series Creating and Configuring Printers 1. Select Printers from the main menu. When the Printers list appears, press Insert and enter the name of the printer you want to add. (The “printer” in this case is actually the PrintServer device). 2. Write down the name you just entered for later use. Press Enter. 3. Highlight the name of the printer you just created and press Enter to configure it. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers 2.
Instant EtherFast® Series NetWare 3.x in DOS The instructions below explain how to establish communication between the PrintServer unit and the rest of your NetWare 3.x network in a DOS environment. PSERVER must be loaded and configured properly on your file server before continuing. Consult your NetWare documentation for information on how to do this. Manual Setup of the Print Server Mode 1. Run the PSCONFIG program, which can be found under the D:\UTILITY\DOS directory on the PrintServer CD.
Instant EtherFast® Series 27. The setup is complete. The PrintServer will automatically log into your file server and make itself available for use. If you run your Console Monitor or other NetWare monitoring software, you will be able to verify the PrintServer’s connection. EtherFast 10/100 PrintServers return to the main menu. Select Print Server Information from the main menu. 11. Select the print server resource that was already up and running when you began the PrintServer’s software installation.
Instant EtherFast® Series Using Windows NT 4.0 LPR Port To use the Windows NT 4.0 LPR port as an alternative to the EtherFast PrintServer port, complete the following procedure. 1. Install Microsoft TCP/IP Printing. To do this, click on Start, Settings, Control Panel, and then double-click on the Network icon. Click once on the Services tab. 2. Choose to add a service. Click on Add and select the Microsoft TCP/IP Printing option. Restart your computer. 3.
Instant EtherFast® Series Here are some of the ways your EtherFast 10/100 Switched PrintServer can help you optimize your network speed: (EFSP42 only) • Speed up Nodes From Your 10BaseT Network In a 10BaseT network, connect your hubs, file servers and key users such as managers and network administrators directly to your Switch to channel dedicated bandwidth in full duplex mode to each station.
Instant EtherFast® Series About Bidirectional Printing Normal printing only sends print signals from a PC to a printer. Bi-directional printing, also called bitronic printing, refers to a printer's ability to do just the opposite- talk back to a PC to notify it of a print job status, paper jams, etc. This two-way communication technology can be found in HP, IBM, Panasonic, and other laser or color printers where close contact between the PC and printer is key.
Instant EtherFast® Series Specifications Customer Support Model Numbers EFSP42: EtherFast 2-Port Switched PrintServer EPSX3: EtherFast 3-Port 10/100 PrintServer PPSX1: EtherFast 10/100 PrintServer Standard IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.
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