Philips 5900 user manual AXIS AddPrinter Wizard” on page, 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, 2003” on page

Basic Installation (Wired & Wireless)

Methods for Setting You can set the IP address of your Axis Network Print Server using one of the IP Address the following methods, depending on your network operating

environment:

Method	Network environments	See ...
AXIS		“Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 using
AddPrinter	Windows 2000, XP, 2003
		AXIS AddPrinter Wizard” on page 28
Wizard
DHCP*	Windows NT, Me 2000, XP,	“Setting the IP Address using DHCP” on page 18
	2003, UNIX, NetWare
	Windows 95, 98, NT Me,	“Setting the IP Address using ARP/Ping in Windows
ARP	2000, XP, 2003	95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, 2003” on page 19
	UNIX, Mac OS X	“Setting the IP Address using ARP in UNIX and Mac
		OS X” on page 20
RARP*	UNIX	“Setting the IP Address Using RARP in UNIX” on page
		21
BOOTP*	UNIX, NetWare	“Using BOOTP in UNIX/Linux” on page 22
Auto-IP*	Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP,	“Setting the IP Address using Auto-IP” on page 18
	2003

*The IP address of the print server will be set automatically using these methods.

Notes:

•The ARP and RARP methods operate on single network segments only, that is they cannot be used over routers.

•The ability to set the IP address with ARP and PING will only be enabled the first 10 minutes after rebooting the print server

•Refer to “Setting Parameters” on page 47 for information about setting the IP address in the Macintosh environment.

Registering and In order to register the host name of the Axis Network Print Server in Resolving networks with dynamic IP address settings, WINS (Windows Internet

Host Names Name Service) and DDNS (Dynamic Domain Naming System) are supported. It is recommended that at least one of these methods should be used if you are setting the IP address of the Axis Network Print Server using DHCP.

The host name of the Axis Network Print Server is specified by the

PS_NAME parameter. Refer to the “The Parameter List” on page 142.

WINS Host Name WINS only supports 15 character long host names. If your host name is Rules longer than 15 characters, the Axis Network Print Server truncates the

host name to 15 characters when registering with a WINS server. You can view the Axis Network Print Server host name that is registered at a WINS server, in the print server’s Web interface. Refer to “Management and Configuration” on page 92.

DDNS Host Name DDNS supports 47 character long host names and can only consist of the Rules characters ‘A-Z’, ’a-z’, ’0-9’ and ‘-’. If your host name consists of any

other characters, they are converted to ‘-’, when registering with a DDNS server. You can view the Axis Network Print Server host name that is

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