AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 Network Print Servers User's Manual AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual 1 Regulatory Information Safety Notices Important: Take some time to read through the safety notices before installing the AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550. Please observe all safety markings and instructions when using this product. Observe "Important:" in the text to avoid operational impairment. Do not proceed until you have fully understood the implications. Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) USA 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. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: - reorient or relocate the receiving antenna - increase the separation between the equipment and receiver - connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected - consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. Shielded (STP) network cables must be used with this unit to ensure compliance with the class B limits.. This digital equipment fulfils the requirements for radiated emission according to limit B of EN55022, and the requirements for immunity according to EN55024 residential, commercial, and light industry. Compliance is not valid for unshielded network cables. This is a class B product based on the standard of the Voluntary Control Council for Interference from Information Technology Equipment (VCCI). If this is used near a radio or television receiver in a domestic environment, it may cause radio interference. Install and use the equipment according to the instruction manual. Compliance is not valid for unshielded network cables. This electronic device meets the requirements of the Radio communications (Electromagnetic Compatibility) Standard 1998 AS/NZS 3548. Compliance is not valid for unshielded network cables. Every care has been taken in the preparation of this manual; if you detect any inaccuracies or omissions, please inform your local Axis office, which can be found on the cover of this document. Axis Communications AB cannot be held responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes to the product and manuals without prior notice. 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Europe Japan Australia Liability Axis' Trademarks Other Trademark Acknowledgments Support Services Patent information Software Acknowledgments USER'S MANUAL AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 EN Part No: 22996, Revision 3.1 Date: March 2006 - Copyright © Axis Communications AB This manual applies to the AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 with firmware version 7.06 or higher. 2 AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents Section 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supported Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 6 6 7 Section 2 Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 AXIS Network Product CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Physical Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mounting the AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Features and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Basic Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Quick Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Connecting the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Assigning an IP Address to the Print Server . . . . . . . . . . 15 Making Network Printers available for printing on your PC 21 Adding Printers in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 using AXIS AddPrinter Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 using Windows Add Printer Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Adding Printers in Windows NT using the Microsoft LPR Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 using the Microsoft LPR Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 AXIS Print Monitor Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Adding NetBIOS/NetBEUI Printers in Windows 2000 using AXIS Print Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Adding Printers over NetBIOS/NetBEUI in Windows NT using AXIS Print Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Adding Printers in Windows 98 and Me over TCP/IP using AXIS Print Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Adding Printers in Windows 98 and Me over NetBIOS/NetBEUI using AXIS Print Monitor . . . . . . . 37 Adding Printers in Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonjour Printing in Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation in Mac OS X using AppleTalk . . . . . . . . . . . Installation of LPR printing in MAC OS X . . . . . . . . . . . Installation on Mac OS 9.1 or older, using AppleTalk . . . Choosing a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 39 41 41 42 42 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Adding Printers in NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Setup using NDPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3 AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual Table of Contents Setup using iPrint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basic Setup with AXIS NetPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advanced Installation using AXIS NetPilot . . . . . . . . . . Basic Queue-based printing over IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Section 7 Adding Printers in UNIX/Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Print Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Typical Invocation via a Windows Manager . . . . . . . . . . Typical Invocation from a Terminal Window . . . . . . . . . Debian 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Hat 7.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SuSE 8.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AXIS axinstall Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Print Methods on TCP/IP Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 65 67 69 72 72 73 74 75 76 78 79 80 Section 8 Adding Printers in OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 TCP/IP Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 NetBIOS/NetBEUI Printing in OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Updating the Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Upgrading the Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Obtaining the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Management and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using a Web browser for Print Server Management . . . Using AXIS ThinWizard for Print Server Management . . Using FTP for Print Server Management . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Novell Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuration Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autodetect Printer Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auto-IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E-mail Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Logical Printers for Customized Printing . . . . . . . . . . . Network Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NetWare Packet Signature Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flashloading New Firmware into the Print Server . . . . Changing Language in the Print Server's Web Interface 119 TCP/IP Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enabling Secure Web Services -- SSL/TLS . . . . . . . . . . Overriding Port Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enabling the SNMPv3 Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 88 92 94 96 98 99 Section 9 Section 10 Section 11 101 101 101 102 102 111 118 118 119 .. 120 121 123 124 Section 12 Section 13 Section 14 4 IP Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 The Test Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual Table of Contents Section 15 Section 16 Technical Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 The Parameter List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NetWare Parameter Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCP Ports Opened for Raw Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SNMP Device Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 157 158 158 Section 17 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual 5 Introduction Section 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550. This product has been developed to connect your printers anywhere in your network, allowing all network users access to shared printer resources. About this Manual This manual is applicable for an AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 with firmware version 7.00 or higher, providing introductory information as well as detailed instructions on how to set up and manage the print server in various network environments. It is intended for everyone involved in installing and managing the print server. To fully benefit from this manual, you should be familiar with basic networking principles. These instructions are based on the settings in a new and unconfigured print server. To reload the default parameters, you can perform a Factory Default, which will restore most of the settings. See "Performing a Factory Default" on page 129. About Axis Axis increases the value of network solutions. The company is an innovat ...