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NETWORKING CONNECTION TO A NETWORK SERV ICE Chapter Issue 1 Sep 02 22.13 At the pri nter use housekeeping to t ransfer product fi les (.pr1) from lo cal disk to the remote di sk. Load a product file f rom the remote disk…

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CONNECTION TO A NETWORK SERVICE

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Quick

Reference Table

The table below is provided for an engineer who needs a quick reference to the

actions required to install a machine onto a network. The engineer may have

previously installed a machine, be re-installing a machine onto another server

or be installing several machines at once.

NOTE

The system requires that the correct enabling security key device driver is fitted

to the port on the rear of the machine before software applications can be

installed

No. Action Required Information

1 In Windows, select the Network icon from

Control Panel and the Identification tab,

workgroup

The network administrator shall supply

domain or workgroup information,

select the Change button to change the

detail

2 Select the Protocols tab, select TCP/IP

protocol and the Properties button

Check that the adaptor is correct for the

connection (as fitted in the PC) There

may be more than one device fitted

3 If DHCP is specified:- Select: Obtain an IP Address from the

DHCP Server

4 If an IP Address is to be specified:- Obtain the IP Address, and the Subnet

Mask details from the system adminis-

trator

5 Tell the network administrator that you

require two working directories where the

product and data files are to be stored

Files must have full administrative rights

(read/write)

6 For GEM, set up the IP address in the SDR

driver

D:\Program Files\DEK\Machine Con-

trol\Printer\sdrconf.cfg

Set the

Passive IP Address to

the Printers’ IP Address

7 If more than one printer is to communicate

using the GEM Host:

Set a different DEVICEID for each

printer.

8 At the printer in Set Prefs, select Comms

Protocol to ON

For serial GEM only

9Select Auto Login option Set to disabled if the operator is to log in

every session or enabled if the login is

to occur automatically at start up

10 Select Local Copies option Decide if it is desired that the printer

copies remote product files to the local

drive after loading it from the remote

product directory. If disabled, modifica-

tions to the file are not saved

11 Check the physical connection to the net-

work

Ethernet 10BaseT is supported by DEK

12 Ask the network administrator if there are

any intermediate routers between the server

and the printing machine

Supply the correct IP Address, check

the IP forwarding option in Protocols

Properties, Routing

13 Using Network Neighborhood in Windows,

check that the printer can be ‘seen’ by the

host PC

Look for a computer icon with the printer

serial number next to it

14 Test the network connection See section ‘Pinging the Network’

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At the printer use housekeeping to transfer product files (.pr1) from local disk to

the remote disk. Load a product file from the remote disk back to the printer and

check that the transaction is complete.

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TESTING THE CONNECTION

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TESTING THE CONNECTION

Pinging the

Network

To ‘Ping’ the network, open the Command Prompt (DOS) pane and Neighbour-

hood Network.

1. Select from the desktop, Start, Run and CMD.EXE

NOTE

The network administrator can supply an IP Address to ping or use Neigh-

bourhood Network to select a computer name.

2. Type Ping <Server IP Address or Computer Name>.

3. If the ping is successful the reply shall contain information of the form: Reply

from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128.

The installation of the printer to the company network has been successful.