User manual AIRLIVE P-201U

[. . . ] P-201/ P-201U Wired Printer Server User's Manual COPYRIGHT Copyright ©2006/2007 by this company. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company. FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the authority to operate equipment. DISCLAIMER This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. [. . . ] You should be able to redirect printing to your print server using a CAPTURE command such as the one shown in the previous section. 36 6. UNIX System Network 37 6. 1 Introduction The print server is available for TCP/IP printing by Unix LPD (Line Printer Daemon) protocol. The LPD protocol originated with Unix release is based on the BSD version of Unix and supported under most versions of Unix. This chapter explains how to configure the print server for TCP/IP operation, and how to modify configuration files on your Unix system to allow printing to the print server. The configuration examples in this manual follow the syntax for BSD based Unix systems. Please refer to the related system documentation for the correct syntax of your systems. To configure the print server for LPD printing, perform the procedures below: 1. In the next sections, we will describe these five procedures step by step. 38 6. 2 Enable Print Server's TCP/IP Support The default configuration of the print server is with TCP/IP support enabled. Anyway, you can configure the print server to enable TCP/IP support using the configuration program. 39 6. 3 Setup Print Server's IP Address The print server must have a unique IP address in order to be recognized by the network. You can set up the IP address on the various Unix systems using any one of the following methods: 1. BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) The print server will use the last three methods to obtain its IP address automatically if its IP address is configured as Auto (0. 0. 0. 0). 6. 3. 1 DHCP There are many Unix systems that support DHCP protocol, and the procedures to configure the DHCP server database are different. This manual does not describe the DHCP server configuration on the Unix systems. It is highly recommended that the DHCP server should be located on the same network as the print server. 6. 3. 2 BOOTP If you have the BOOTP daemon, bootpd, running on your UNIX system that is accessible by the print server, you can use the BOOTP protocol to set up the IP address of the print server. We recommend that the BOOTP server should be located on the same subnet as the print server. If you use Network Information Services (NIS) in your system, you may need to rebuild the NIS map with the BOOTP services before doing the following BOOTP configuration. To configure the IP address data for the BOOTP server, you will need to log in the host of BOOTP server as the superuser (root). Optionally, assign a name corresponding to the print server's IP address. You can add this address to the /etc/hosts file, by adding a line such as: 40 203. 66. 191. 12 pserver 2. Add an entry to the host's /etc/bootptab file, similar to the following: hostname:\ :ht=1:\ :ha=print_server_ethernet_address:\ :ip=print_server_ip_address: Lines should be indented with tabs. Where hostname is the device name of a print server, the ht=1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet, the ha= tag specifies the Ethernet address of a print server, which is the Node ID located on the print server. The ip= tag should correspond to the IP address you want to assign to the print server. For example, a print server with the following configuration: Node ID: 0000B4010101 (this implies Ethernet address is 0000B4010101), IP address: 203. 66. 191. 12 The entry for this print server in the /etc/bootptab file should be: PS010101:\ :ht=1:\ :ha=0000B4010101:\ :ip=203. 66. 191. 12: 41 6. 4 Verify Print Server's IP Address To verify that your print server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command: ping ip-address 42 6. 5 Configure Remote LPD Printing on the Host The procedure you use to configure your Unix host(s) to allow printing to your network remote print server varies between different varieties of Unix. The procedure below can be used for Unix variants that are related to BSD Unix, such as SunOS or Linux. [. . . ] Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click "Next". If your printer is not in the list, click "Have Disk. . . " to install the driver of the printer. After installation, the printer model will be added to the list. 93 Step7. "Next". Choose to set the print whether as a default printer or not. [. . . ]