1(1) NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE Version 1.00 ==================== Product involved: - Specific software: AXIS NetPilot Release date: Release type: Production Software version: 2.53 Software media: Diskette 3.5" (HD) Software checksum: - Last preceding release: 2.52 Upgrade instructions: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Easy Release Description: New features: ------------- 1. AXIS 5400 and 5600 print server models supported. 2. Printer specific icons are shown on the summary and monitoring page for some printer models. 3. When upgrading a print server with software version 5.51 or later, the protocols are not turned off prior to the upgrade. 4. When adding a new printer to be monitored, the name of the printer is the same as the printer model e.g. Ricoh Aficio 200, if vailable. 5. On the Summary Page, the network mode (10/100 Mbit) is always shown correctly, if it is available from the print server. Solved problems: ---------------- 6. Solved problem with wrong MAC-address and serial number being displayed on the Summary Page. 7. NetWare. Solved problem with wrong names on printers created in remote mode. 8. When displaying the properties on an NPS 550R, some empty property tabs were shown. These have now been removed. 9. Previously, when displaying the monitoring window, the icon in the upper left corner was set to the system default icon on WinNT. This has now been corrected so that the icon indicated the worst condition of the monitored printers. 10. Fixed monitoring problem, which caused crash when activating the monitoring window just after a rescan. 11. Fixed problem, which caused the wrong name to be saved to the ini-file when adding a new printer to be monitored. 12. Fixed problem, which caused NetPilot to crash if adding a new monitoring group just after deleting an existing one. Recommendation: - An update to this software is necessary, if you want any of the new/corrected features mentioned above. Best regards AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB Further information is available on request: Appendix A : Detailed technical description of the release. Appendix B : Software limitations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A - DETAILED TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE App A 1(1) Product involved: AXIS NetPilot Software version: 2.53 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New features ------------ 1. The new AXIS 1600,AXIS 5400 and AXIS 5600 print servers can be managed via NetPilot 2.53. 2. On the port pages in the summary dialog, we show an image of the connected printer. The models we currently support are: FUJITSU PRINTPARTNER 12V FUJITSU PRINTPARTNER 16ADV FUJITSU PRINTPARTNER 16ADV FUJITSU PRINTPARTNER 16DV FUJITSU PRINTPARTNER 20W RICOH AFICIO200 PCL RICOH AFICIO250 PCL RICOH AFICIO401 RICOH AFICIO MP01 3. No further information. 4. When flashloading, the printserver itself will turn off the protocols thus making it unnecessary for NetPilot to perform this step. 5. Some printer models supports asking for information about manufacturer and model name. If this information is available th model name will be suggested as the name. 6. Previously it was hardcoded in NetPilot for which printservers this information should be displayed. Now, if the information is available, it will always be displayed. 7. Two new parameters for selecting transport protocol in NetWare has been added. The choices are IPX/SPX and TCP/IP. One of them must be enabled for NetWare communication to work. Solved problems --------------- 8. No further information. 9. No further information. 10. Some parameter group names in the parameter file were different from other software revisions, causing empty tabs to be shown. 11. No further information. 12. No further information. 13. No further information. 14. No further information. NetPilot can be used for Axis Print Server products with a software version greater than 5.00. 1. Hardware Requirements AXIS NetPilot requires a PC with a 386 or higher processor and at least 4MB memory. 2. Software Requirements AXIS NetPilot can be used with Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT and WinOS/2. The network support requirements are: * Windows: NetWare client and/or LAN Server/LAN Manager Workstation Service * Windows for Workgroups: NetWare client and/or Microsoft Network (NetBIOS/NetBEUI) * Windows 95: NetWare client and/or Microsoft Network (NetBIOS/NetBEUI) * Windows NT: NetWare client and/or Microsoft Network (NetBIOS/NetBEUI) * WinOS/2: NetWare client and/or Microsoft Network (NetBIOS/NetBEUI) 3. DLLs required During the installation of the AXIS NetPilot the following DLLs will be placed in the AXIS NetPilot directory: CALWIN16.DLL CLNWIN16.DLL CLXWIN16.DLL LOCWIN16.DLL NCPWIN16.DLL NETWIN16.DLL NWIPXSPX.DLL PRTWIN16.DLL and PCTREE16.DLL (The old NWCALLS.DLL, NWIPXSPX.DLL, NWLOCALE.DLL, NWNET.DLL, NWPSRV.DLL will be removed from the AXIS NetPilot directory if they exist there.) The following DLL will be placed in the Windows/System directory (only if it does not exist already): CTL3DV2.DLL To run AXIS NetPilot without a NetWare client (i.e. using the NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocol), the NetWare DLLs should be in the AXIS NetPilot directory. If you have a NetWare client, the NetWare DLLs can be moved to the Windows/System directory to share them with other applications. Appendix B - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS App B 1(1) Product involved: AXIS NetPilot Software version: 2.53 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Before uninstalling an Axis Network Print Server which has Remote Printer connections, the user should disconnect all Remote Printer connections using AXIS NetPilot. Otherwise, some information will not be removed from the NetWare File Server. 2. AXIS NetPilot can sometimes fail creating Print Server objects on a NetWare file server when running in Windows NT environment. Therefore the user should create the Print Server object using NWAdmin/PCONSOLE before AXIS NetPilot is used for creating connections. 3. Problems with NetWare Unicode tables. AXIS NetPilot fails to find the NetWare Unicode tables if they are not located in a directory in the local search path. Make sure your local search path includes the NLS sub-directory on SYS:PUBLIC or SYS:LOGIN. Note that a mapping to the *parent* directory is not enough, the path must include the NLS sub-directory. 4. Changing a Print Server's node address in NetPilot may cause problem for NetPilot finding the Print Server again. This is easily solved by restarting NetPilot. 5. To use NetWare Directory Services in NetPilot on Windows 95 with 'Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks with service for NDS', you must be logged in to the NDS tree (and in some cases also have the NetWare Administrator running). No such problems occurs when running Novell's NetWare Clients. 6. The white version of AXIS 560 print server "NPS 560" with software version 5.15 and the Specialix version of "NPS 530" with software version less than 5.21 are not supported by NetPilot, because they don't announce themselves properly. 7. After renaming the print server sometimes uploading the parameter list failed the second time due to faulty internal handling of the new print server name. A workaround is to make a refresh. 8. Running NetPilot on a PC with multiple network cards operating in the same segment in a NetBIOS environment can in some cases prevent NetPilot to find units on one network card. Microsofts knowledge base contains information indicating that this is known problem. 9. NetPilot will not correctly show Queues connected via NDS Printer Objects that are created with other tools (the Printer Objects names not following NetPilots naming conventions). They will function (print) correctly though.