Intermec EasyLAN 100E User Manual

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    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide.

  • Page 2: Easylan 100E

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide.

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    Ii easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide intermec technologies corporation worldwide headquarters 6001 36th ave.W. Everett, wa 98203 u.S.A. Www.Intermec.Com the information contained herein is provided solely for the purpose of allowing customers to operate and service intermec-manufactured equ...

  • Page 4: Document Change Record

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide iii document change record this page records changes to this document. The document was originally released as revision 001. Version number date description of change 002 9/2007 revised guide to include information on after service locations for south korea...

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    Iv easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide.

  • Page 6: Contents

    Contents easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide v contents document change record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iii before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vii safety information . . . . ....

  • Page 7: Console Commands

    Contents vi easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide configuring for netware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 configuring the netware parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 configuring additional queues . . . ...

  • Page 8: Before You Begin

    Before you begin easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide vii before you begin this section provides you with safety information, technical support information, sources for additional product information, and explains how to identify and understand warnings, cautions, and notes included in this doc...

  • Page 9: Web Support

    Before you begin viii easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide web support visit the intermec web site at www.Intermec.Com to download our current manuals (in pdf). To order printed versions of the intermec manuals, contact your local intermec representative or distributor. The intermec technical k...

  • Page 10: Service Location Support

    Before you begin easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide ix outside the u.S.A. And canada, contact your local intermec representative. For technical support in south korea, see the next section. To search for your local representative, from the intermec web site, click contact. Service location su...

  • Page 11: Patent Information

    Before you begin x easylan100e ethernet adapter user’s guide to download documents 1 visit the intermec web site at www.Intermec.Com . 2 click service & support > manuals. 3 in the select a product field, choose the product whose documentation you want to download. To order printed versions of the i...

  • Page 12: Installing The Adapter

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 1 1 installing the adapter this chapter provides an overview of the easylan tm 100e ethernet adapter and explains in detail how to install the adapter in your network. The chapter covers these topics: • introducing the easylan 100e ethernet adapter • suppor...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 2 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide introducing the easylan 100e ethernet adapter the external easylan 100e ethernet adapter (p/n 225-746-001) acts as a print server, letting you share printers across your ethernet network. You can connect the adapter to t...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 3 supported operating systems and network protocols • windows ® 95, 98, me, nt 4, 2000, xp, and vista • tcp/ip • lpd/lpr • raw tcp/ip (port 9100) • netbios ® over ip (with smb) • multiple configurable tcp port numbers • te...

  • Page 15: Installing The Adapter

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 4 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide installing the adapter before you install the adapter, make sure that you have the appropriate ethernet cable. Make sure that you have loaded media and ribbon into the printer and connected the power cord. For help, see ...

  • Page 16: Printing A Test Label

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 5 to connect to your network 1 turn on the printer. When you turn on the printer, the adapter runs through a set of power-up diagnostics for a few seconds. 2 if the adapter is operating properly, the led flashes momentaril...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 6 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide if your network does not use dhcp or if you want to configure a static ip address, use arp (address resolution protocol) to assign a fixed ip address to the adapter. Configure a static ip address using the web browser in...

  • Page 18: Setting Up To Print

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 7 the host returns either reply from 192.168.3.191... Or a similar message. This reply indicates that the address has been set and communications established. To get the ip address from a unix host machine these steps also...

  • Page 19: Print Using Ftp

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 8 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide • how to install and use the intermec print monitor on a windows 95/98 pc. To set up your printer to print from a unix system, see “configuring for unix” on page 34. Print using ftp after installing and connecting the ad...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 9 to prepare for lpr/lpd printing 1 from the start menu, select settings > control panel. The control panel dialog box opens. 2 double-click the network icon. The network dialog box opens. 3 select protocols. 4 add tcp/ip ...

  • Page 21: Setting Up For Windows Vista

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 10 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide setting up for a windows 2000/xp pc before you install the printer on a windows 2000/xp pc, you need to install the printer driver, interdriver. See your printer’s software page on the printercompanion cd for help. To i...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 11 to install intermec print monitor 1 place the printercompanion cd in your pc’s cd drive. The printercompanion page appears. 2 in the left frame, click the button for your printer, such as the pc4. The welcome page for t...

  • Page 23: Printer Installation

    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter 12 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 5 click the link install intermec print monitor. 6 follow the instructions for installing intermec print monitor. 7 when the installation is complete, close the printercompanion screen. You are now ready to install the ...

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    Chapter 1 — installing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 13 4 right-click the printer in the printers dialog box, and select properties from the menu. The properties dialog box appears. 5 click the details tab. 6 click add port. The add port dialog box appears. 7 select the othe...

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  • Page 26: Configuring The Adapter

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 15 2 configuring the adapter this chapter explains how to configure the easylan 100e ethernet adapter for advanced and network-specific settings, and includes these topics: • opening the web browser interface • configuring for netware • configuring for netb...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 16 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide opening the web browser interface you can use a standard web browser interface to configure the adapter. To configure the adapter 1 start your web browser. 2 in the browser’s address line, enter the ip address for the ...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 17 4 in the network card access password field, enter your password. The default password is intermec . 5 click submit. The printer status page appears. You are now ready to configure the adapter. Configuring the tcp/ip p...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 18 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 3 configure the tcp/ip parameters, entering at least the ip address or verifying the ip address assigned by the dhcp server. For help, see the next table. 4 click submit (scroll to the bottom of the page if not visible...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 19 tcp/ip parameters defined parameter definition tcp/ip enable or disable tcp/ip communications. Default = enabled. Enabled services configure the services for the port you are using. For help, see “configuring port serv...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 20 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide configuring the access and update passwords use the web browser interface to configure the access and update passwords. For help, see “opening the web browser interface” on page 16. Boot tries enter the number of times...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 21 • the access password protects the adapter from unauthorized changes, limiting access to the main menu page in the web browser interface. • the update password allows you to reload the firmware. • the default password ...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 22 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide • enter a contact name and location. • reset the server. • restore the factory defaults. 4 once you have completed any changes, click submit, which returns the message “data updated successfully” to indicate the change...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 23 2 from the main menu page, click printer port. The print port settings page appears. The first four rows display information about the parallel port including: • any existing jobs in the port. • port status. • port nam...

  • Page 35: Configuring Port Services

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 24 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 4 click submit, which returns the message “data updated successfully” to indicate the changes were accepted. 5 click another command on the left to continue working, or click logout to close the web browser window. Con...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 25 to configure the port services 1 log in to the adapter’s web page with your browser. For help, see “opening the web browser interface” on page 16. 2 click print services to view the configure service page. 3 click the ...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 26 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 4 make any needed changes to the configurable parameters. For help, see the next table. 5 click submit, which returns the message “data updated successfully” to let you know that the changes were accepted. These change...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 27 queue server use check mark to configure the adapter to fetch print jobs directly from the netware print queues. Default = no string. Nds tree enter the name of the organizational tree (with any ascii character) and en...

  • Page 39: Configuring For Netware

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 28 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide configuring for netware the adapter automatically makes itself known on a netware network. The default netware print server name is pr1.Use this netware print server name for either nds or bindery mode configuration. U...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 29 3 select enable to activate netware communications. Read the information in the active servers and queues to determine the enabled servers and queues. 4 configure the parameters. For help, see the next table. 5 to conf...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 30 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide to configure bindery and service bindery file servers 1 in the active servers and queues row of the configure netware page or the netware row of the configure service page, click configure bindery file servers or click...

  • Page 42: Configuring For Netbios

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 31 3 click submit, and the status pane displays the message, “configuration has been modified. The unit must be reset for new values to take effect. Data updated successfully.” 4 click another command on the left to conti...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 32 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide to configure for netbios 1 log in to the adapter using the web browser interface. For help opening this page, see “opening the web browser interface” on page 16. 2 click netbios/netbeui/dlc. The configure netbios/ netb...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 33 configuring the dlc parameters data link control (dlc) error-correction protocol in the systems network architecture (sna) manages data transmission between two nodes over a physical link. Use the web browser interface...

  • Page 45: Configuring For Unix

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 34 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 2 click netbios/netbeui/dlc. The configure netbios/ netbeui/dlc page appears. 3 click configure dlc to display the configure dlc page. 4 in the dlc row, select enable or disable. 5 in the enabled services row, click th...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 35 configuring for berkeley unix berkeley unix host computers include linux, digital equipment corporation digital unix, osf/1, and ultrix; compaq tru64 unix; sunos (not solaris), sco unix; and many others. Sun solaris, h...

  • Page 47: Configuring For Sun Solaris

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 36 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide binary_p1 is the adapter’s service name. Use text_p1 instead of binary_p1 for text files. Sd is the spool directory. 3 create the spool directory. The lpd spool directory is usually located in the /usr/spool directory....

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 37 to use the printer manager 1 open the printer manager under open windows in the admintool utility. For help, see the documentation for your sun solaris system. 2 select edit. 3 select add. 4 select add access to remote...

  • Page 49: Configuring For Hp-Ux

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 38 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide configuring for hp-ux use the adapter with an hp-ux host with the following configuration changes. To configure as an hp-ux host: 1 open the sam program in gui mode. 2 double-click printers and plotters. 3 double-click...

  • Page 50: Configuring For Ibm Aix

    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 39 configuring for ibm aix use the aix (system management interface tool) smit program, following these steps. To configure as an ibm aix host 1 enter smit and select devices. 2 select printer/plotter. 3 select manage rem...

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    Chapter 2 — configuring the adapter 40 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide configuring for other systems you can use the adapter with any computer system that supports either the lpr/lpd protocol or the hp jetdirect card. The adapter’s parallel port uses port 9100 by default. Refer to your sy...

  • Page 52: Troubleshooting and

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 41 3 troubleshooting and managing the adapter this chapter explains troubleshooting and managing the easylan 100e ethernet adapter and covers these topics: • troubleshooting printing problems • troubleshooting network configuration problems • managing the a...

  • Page 53: Managing The Adapter

    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter 42 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide troubleshooting printing problems first, make sure the printer has power. Check the printer connection to your computer. Verify the printer has both media and ribbon. If the printer appears to be funct...

  • Page 54: Rebooting The Adapter

    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 43 • reload firmware. Rebooting the adapter you can reboot (restart) the adapter using your web browser. For help opening the adapter’s admin page, see “opening the web browser interface” on page 16. To r...

  • Page 55: Printing A Test Label

    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter 44 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide to reset using the web browser interface 1 from the server settings page, click restore defaults. For help opening the server settings page, see“opening the web browser interface” on page 16. 2 click s...

  • Page 56: Reloading Firmware

    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 45 reloading firmware you can load firmware on the adapter using trivial file transfer protocol (tftp) on windows nt/2000/xp or the web browser interface. To use tftp to reload firmware • use the tftp put...

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    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter 46 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 2 in the firmware file name field, enter the file name for the firmware. If the new firmware is not in the /tftp directory (tftp server) or the /login directory (netware server), enter the path for the...

  • Page 58: Latest Firmware

    Chapter 3 — troubleshooting and managing the adapter easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 47 4 click submit. If you enabled reload on submit, the firmware is sent to the adapter, and a message page appears letting you know the reload was successful. 5 click any other command from the menu on t...

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  • Page 60: Console Commands

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 49 a console commands this appendix explains how to send the console commands and provides a list of the commands..

  • Page 61: Sending The Console Commands

    Appendix a — console commands 50 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide sending the console commands you can send console commands to the adapter by using either telnet or the web browser interface. The following procedure explains how to use the web browser interface. For help using telnet, see...

  • Page 62: General Commands

    Appendix a — console commands easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 51 2 click console. The console page appears. 3 enter the commands you want to send and click enter. For a list of commands, see the next section. 4 click any of the menu items on the left side to return to admin or to select o...

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    Appendix a — console commands 52 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide set load en enables the firmware reload after exit. Set load ho name sets the node name of the boot host for netware firmware load. Load the firmware into the /login directory. Set load ip n.N.N.N sets the ip address of the ...

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    Appendix a — console commands easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 53 set port p1 nbuf status enables or disables no buffering on parallel port, where status equals en for enabled or dis for disabled. Set pro password sets the console protection password to prevent access to set commands. (use...

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    Appendix a — console commands 54 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide set servi servicename frs replacenumber sets the service with the specified replacement string number, where servicename is the name of the service you are modifying and replacenumber is the replacement string number. Set se...

  • Page 66: Tcp/ip Commands

    Appendix a — console commands easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 55 tcp/ip commands use these console commands to configure and manage tcp/ip parameters. Unpro allows the system manager to temporarily access set commands when the remote console is in protected mode. The set default command c...

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    Appendix a — console commands 56 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide set ip ra nn sets the procedure used by the adapter when obtaining its ip address. By default, this sets the ip address along with a default subnet mask and a router address that is the same as the address of the load host. ...

  • Page 68: Netware Commands

    Appendix a — console commands easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 57 netware commands use these console commands to configure and manage netware parameters. Netware console commands command description cl netw se server removes the specified netware file server from the adapter’s access list,...

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    Appendix a — console commands 58 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide set servi servicename net status enables or disables netware jobs on the specified service, where servicename is the service you are modifying and status equals en for enabled or dis for disabled. Sh netw shows the netware p...

  • Page 70: Index

    Easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 59 i index.

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    Index 60 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide numerics 10baset/100basetx connector, 2 1284 device ecp mode, 52 id queries, 52 a active servers and queues row, 29 adapter – see easylan 100e adapter. Admintool utility for sun solaris, 36 advertising frequency, 57 arp/ping command unix host, 7 b ...

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    Index easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 61 control strings, 26 d defaults password, 17 setting adapter to, 51 device id queries, 1284, 52 dhcp configuring adapter for, 19 disable dhcp, 55 domain name field, 33 downloading ip address, 5 unix host, 7 e easycoder printer – see printers. Easyla...

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    Index 62 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide l led activity when printer is turned on, 5 functions, 3 linux x-windows users, note, 35 load host, configuring, 52 lpd banner check box, 20 lpd retry check box, 20 lpr/lpd printing, windows nt 4, 8 m match string number, 53 memory available, showi...

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    Index easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide 63 using windows 2000/xp, 10 using windows 95/98 pc, 10 using windows nt 4 pc, 8 using windows vista, 10 priority field, 26 protocols check box, 26 protocols for port services, 53 q queries, 1284 device id, 52 queue polling time, 57 queue server mode ...

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    Index 64 easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide acquiring ip address from host, 7 arp/ping command, using, 7 configuring berkeley unix, 35 hp-ux, 38 ibm aix, 39 sun solaris, 36 w web browser interface opening the browser, 16 using to reload firmware, 45 using to set to default settings, 44 windo...

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    Worldwide headquarters 6001 36th avenue west everett, washington 98203 u.S.A. Tel 425.348.2600 fax 425.355.9551 www.Intermec.Com easylan 100e ethernet adapter user’s guide *934-010-002* p/n 934-010-002.