10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Print Server
FPS-5P-D
User's Manual


3.FPS-5P-D Installation Overview

3.1 Overview

To best meet usersnetwork printing needs in todays heterogeneous and multiple protocol networking environments, the FPS-5P-D supports industrial standard protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI. This means that the FPS-5P-D supports the most popular network operating systems today, including Novells NetWare, Microsoft Windows NT/2000, and over 20 UNIX systems, as well as Windows 95/98 peer-to-peer networks. As such, there might be several ways to employ the FPS-5P-D on your network.

We, therefore, recommend you read over this chapter through Chapter 11 so that you can then choose a best way to employ your FPS-5P-D on your network to meet your current network environment and printing requirements.

In addition, if you have problems when installing the FPS-5P-D, we recommend you read Chapter 11 Troubleshooting and you might find possible solutions to your problems.


3.2 Installing the FPS-5P-D

Several possible installation methods are listed below:

  1. Installing the FPS-5P-D through the PSAdmin under NetWare. (Refer to Chapter 7)
  2. Installing the FPS-5P-D through the Network Print Port or the LPR Port Printing (under TCP/IP protocol) on Windows NT/2000. (Refer to Chapter 6/ 5)
  3. Installing the FPS-5P-D through the Network Print Port on your Windows 95/98 computers. (Refer to Chapter 4)

3.3 Examples

To illustrate the methods above, are below three examples to install FPS-5P-D.

Example 1 - Installing a FPS-5P-D on a NetWare LAN, with Windows 95/98 client computers

Suppose you have a FPS-5P-D and a NetWare file server on your LAN. In addition, your client computers are Windows 95/98s.

Method A

  1. Refer to Chapter 7 to install and configure your FPS-5P-D to connect to your NetWare file server.
  2. From your Windows 95/98 computer, create a printer, which is then redirected to one of the print queues on your NetWare file server.
  3. When you print jobs from your Windows based applications, the jobs will be sent to the print queue on your NetWare file server. Then, the print jobs will be serviced by the FPS-5P-D.

 

Method B

  1. Refer to Chapter 4 to install and configure your FPS-5P-D on your (each) Windows 95/98 computer.
  2. When you print jobs from your applications, the print jobs will be spooled on your local Windows 95/98 system, through standard Windows printing system and the FPS-5P-Ds printing control component, the Network Print Port.
  3. Next, the print jobs will be despooled from your Windows 95/98, then serviced by the FPS-5P-D.

 

Method C

  1. Combine Method A and B. You have to create two same printers on your Windows 95/98 computer. One is connected (redirected) to the print queue on the NetWare file server, and the other is connected to the FPS-5P-D, through the Network Print Port, directly.
  2. With this configuration, you can select to print to the FPS-5P-D through the NetWare or print directly to the FPS-5P-D.
  3. This method might be very useful while it is impossible to print your jobs through your NetWare file server, such as NetWare file server is down.
  4. This method provides you certain degree of the fault tolerance to your network printing systems.

 

Example 2 Installing a FPS-5P-D on a Windows NT/2000 LAN, with Windows 95/98 client computers

Assume you have a FPS-5P-D and a NT/2000 server on your LAN. In addition, your client computers are Windows 95/98s.

 

Method A

  1. Refer to Chapter 5, 6 or 9 to install and configure the FPS-5P-D, through the Network Print Port or the TCP/IP LPR Port Printing, on your NT/2000 server.
  2. Share this printer to your NT domain users (i.e. Windows 95/98 clients).
  3. When you print jobs from your Windows based applications, your jobs will be redirected to the NT/2000 computer first. Next, the print jobs are despooled from NT/2000 and serviced by the FPS-5P-D.

Method B

  1. Refer to Chapter 4 to install and configure your FPS-5P-D on your (each) Windows 95/98 computer.
  2. When you print jobs from your applications, the print jobs will be spooled on your local Windows 95/98 system, through the Network Print Port.
  3. Next, the print jobs will be despooled from your Windows 95/98, then serviced by the FPS-5P-D.

 

Method C

  1. Combine Method A and B. You have to create two same printers on your Windows 95/98 computer. One is connected to the printer shared from NT/2000, and the other is connected to the FPS-5P-D (through the Network Print Port) directly.
  2. With this configuration, you can select to print to the FPS-5P-D through NT/2000 or directly to the FPS-5P-D.
  3. This method might be very useful while it is impossible to print your jobs through your NT/2000, such as NT/2000 is down or not available.
  4. This method might provide you certain degree of the fault tolerance to your network printing systems.

 

Example 3 Installing a FPS-5P-D on a mixed network environment, with Windows 95/98 client computers

Assume you have a NT/2000 server and a NetWare file server on your LAN. Your client computers are Windows 95/98s.

Under this kind of heterogeneous networking environment, you can integrate and apply the methods in the Example 1 and 2 to install and configure your FPS-5P-D to best meet usersprinting requirements from different operating systems.

 

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