Changing Printer and Workgroup Name. Panasonic DA-PC700, All in One Printer DA-PC700

7.4

Changing Printer and

Workgroup Name

If necessary, you will need to change the SMB printer and workgroup names. However, you cannot change these names using the printer control panel. Instead, change them from Internet Services or

Windows host computer. This section describes the procedure to change these names from the

Windows host computer.

Refer to "Chapter 10 Using Internet Services" for details on operating Internet Services.

7.4.1

Through Windows Networking

You can change the SMB setting by accessing the file in the printer via the Windows network from the host computer, and then changing the information there. However, only the administrator is allowed to do this.

The procedure below explains how to overwrite the setting file (config.txt) at the first instance. Subsequently, you will need to know the following items that have been set: SMB

Host Name, Workgroup, Administrator Name, and Administrator Password.

The factory setting of Administrator Name and Password of config.txt is both

"admin".

Procedure

Open

Network Neighborhood

from the Windows client computer, followed by

Workgroup

(factory setting: Workgroup) and then the printer.

The factory setting of the host name of the printer is "FX-xxxxxx" (where xxxxxx is the last three bytes of the Ethernet address of the printer). You can confirm the name by referring to Host Name of SMB on the Printer Settings

List.

Double-click the admintool folder.

The following dialog box will be displayed.

• For Windows 95/98/Me

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• For Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000

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For Windows 95/98/Me, enter only the password (SMB Administrator

Password) and for Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000, enter the user name (SMB

Administrator Name) and password (SMB Administrator Password). Then, click

OK

. The admintool folder will be opened.

The factory setting of both Administrator Name and Password is "admin".

Using a text editor like Memo, open

config.txt

.

If necessary, change the workgroup and host name, and then overwrite and close config.txt.

• The workgroup and host names can be set up to 15 bytes.

• For details on config.txt, refer to next page, "Setting format of config.txt".

The message.txt file is created inside the admintool folder.

Open

message.txt

and check that it displays the following information.

If message.txt is not displayed, select Refresh from the "View" menu. If an error message appears, check the contents that have been set again.

Close

message.txt

.

Switch off the printer, and wait for at least five seconds before switching it on again.

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Setting format of config.txt

Item

Printer Language

Host Name

Workgroup

Remarks

Language to be used.

Host name of the printer

Name of workgroup of printer

Value

Japanese/

English

Factory Setting

English

Maximum

15 bytes

FX-xxxxxx

(xxxxxx: last 3 bytes of the printer MAC address)

WORKGROUP Maximum

15 bytes

On/Off On

On/Off On

Disk/Memory/ Off

Off

NETBEUI

TCP/IP

Spool

Activation of NetBEUI protocol

Activation of TCP/IP protocol

Activation of spool function.

Can select from Disk, Memory, and Off.

If Disk is not recognised when it is selected, it will become Off.

Max Spool Size The maximum receive buffer size during spooling.

Can be set in 256 Kbyte units.

Max Receive Buffer The maximum receive buffer size during non-spooling.

Can be set in 32 Kbyte units.

Auto Driver Download Activation of the automatic downloading of printer driver.

PJL

Print Mode

Activation of PJL

Set the printer language.

Auto Master Mode

Encrypt Password

512 - 32768

(unit: Kbyte)

64 - 1024

(unit: Kbyte)

Enable/Disable

1024 Kbyte

256 Kbyte

Enable

On/Off On

AUTO/PS/PCL AUTO

On Activation of the automatic browse On/Off master feature.

No available when WINS Server is designated.

Activation of the encrypt password feature.

On/Off On

Time Zone

Summer Time

Set the time zone in units of minutes.

Set the period of summer time

-720 to 720 540 mins

(unit: minutes) (Japan) hour-start-end

(h-hhddmmhhddmm)

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Item Remarks Value

Maximum Sessions Maximum connections of printer.

3 - 10

Unicode Support Set whether to use unicode or local code (Shift JIS).

Factory Setting

5

Enable/Disable Disable

DHCP Activation of DHCP.

On/Off

WINS DHCP Resolve Activation of WINS DHCP Resolve. On/Off

IP Address Set the IP address.

-----

On

On

0.0.0.0

0.0.0.0

0.0.0.0

0.0.0.0

Subnet Mask

Gateway Address

Set the subnet mask.

Set the gateway address.

WINS Primary Server Set the WINS primary server

Address address

WINS Secondary

Server Address

Set the WINS secondary server address.

Administrator Name Administrator name.

Administrator

Password

Location

Reboot

-----

-----

-----

-----

Password of administrator.

Current setting not displayed.

Maximum

20 bytes

Maximum

14 bytes.

Comments on location of machine. Maximum

48 bytes.

Printer will be rebooted after the On/Off editing of the config.txt parameter setting file if set to On.

Usually set to Off when activated.

Machine will not be rebooted even if it is set to On if there is an error in the setting.

0.0.0.0

ADMIN admin

-----

Off

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Example of config.txt

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