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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.
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Using a Laptop If ‘Pinging’ the network fails, a laptop computer can be attached to the printing
machine to test the local network is working correctly.
NOTE
Before commencing testing, make a note of the original configurations of both
the laptop and the printer so that they can be reset on completion.
1. Identify the laptop name by selecting Control Panel, Network.
2. Under the Protocols tab select TCP/IP and Properties, select Specify an
IP Address.
3. Enter IP Address 195.100.100.2 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
Select OK. Close the network dialog and the control panel and re-boot the
laptop.
4. Connect the laptop to the printer using a cross-over network cable.
5. On the laptop log in locally as ‘Yourself’ in the laptop name domain.
6. Create a directory called Test, change its properties so that it is shared.
7. Create two sub-directories of Test for ‘data’ and ‘products’.
8. At the printer, check that the printer’s IP Address is 195.100.100.1
NOTE
If the IP Address is changed the printer shall need to be rebooted.
9. On the desk top double click My Computer.
10.Right click on C:Drive.
11. Select Sharing, Select New Share. Type C Drive in the shared name box.
12.Select User Limit and allow user = 1.
13.Repeat these steps for D Drive.
14.From the Start Menu, select Programs and then Windows NT Explorer.
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15.Select Tools, Map Network Drive from the Tools Menu. In Path type
\\Laptop Name (see above)\(share name)\Test. When prompted enter the
laptop’s Administrator name and password (if any). Close Windows NT
Explorer.
Figure 22-6 Mapping a Network Drive
16.Select Maint. and Set Preferences.
17.Set the comms option to Net_Files.
18.Select Edit Comms.
19. Set the remote drive letter to the mapped drive letter.
20.Set the product data path to Products.
21.Set the data path to Data.
22.Select Enable Comms.
23.Use Housekeeping to transfer some product files (.pr1) to and from the
local and remote disks. Confirm that event.dat is being written to in the data
directory on the laptop.
24.Reset the printer and laptop to their original settings.