Section 2: Basic Installation

The user is guided through the installation process by a Wizard which asks for the relevant information concerning your network environment. You will find more information about AXIS NetPilot in Section 3 Setting Up - NetWare.

Environments When configuring the AXIS 540/640 for use on your network you may select any combination of the supported environments. In a multi-platform environment you may wish to enable printing from all of the supported environments: Netware, TCP/IP, Windows OS/2 or AppleTalk.

NetWare NDS You may place NetWare Print Queues on a specific bindery server, or alternatively into a NDS Tree.

Print Queues The default Print Queue names comprise of the print server name followed by the Port name:

Environment

Default name

NetWareAXIS1A0003_LPT1_Q

Windows & OS/2

 

AX1A0003.LP1

AppleTalkAXIS1A0003_LPT1

Example of default Print Queue Names for each of the operating environments

The Installation Wizard allows you to amend the default names if you wish.

The Internet Address During the Installation Wizard you may choose the method the AXIS 540/640 employs for obtaining an Internet Address. ARP, RARP, BOOTP and DHCP are all supported. Refer to page 27, for more information on these methods.

Wizard A special form of user assistance that automates a task (in this case the installation) through a dialog with the user. Wizards help the user to accomplish tasks that are complex and require experience, and even for the experienced user can help to speed up an operation.

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