NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE ==================== Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Specific software: Release date: March 4 1998 Release type: PRODUCTION Software version: 5.42 Software media: AXIS 570 Flash AXIS 670 Flash Software checksum: AXIS 570 Flash AXIS 670 Flash Last preceding release: AXIS 570 N/A AXIS 670 N/A Flash loading instructions: See UpgrInfo.txt document Release document: 1.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE1: ===== This release document covers the AXIS 570/670 2MB flash memory HW platform. To determine if the unit is equipped with 1MB or 2MB flash memory, examine the Prod. no. printed on the label at the underside of the Print Server. Two groups of numbers and letters indicate part number and product revision, e.g. 0057-1 1K. The last group is the product revision. All product revisions 1K and later indicate 2MB flash memory. Earlier product revisions are 1MB flash memory only. At the AXIS support FTP site software for the 2MB flash memory platforms can be found in the axis570p and axis670p directories. NOTE2: ===== The non SNA/IBM part of this release is based on Print Server software release 5.39. See Release Descriptions below for information on changes made to the non SNA/IBM parts of the software in the 5.39 release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Easy Release Description: 1. An IBM Emulator problem causing corrupt printout when changing from PCL to USER printer bank has been corrected. 2. A SNA LU3/3174 problem causing printout to be corrupted after 2000-3000 pages has been corrected. 3. An IBM emulator problem causing too many Form Feeds (FF) to be sent to the printer has been fixed. 4. Support for configuration file loading via TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) has been added. 5. An IBM Parameter Handler problem making it impossible to change Printer Emulation in twinax (5494) mode has been corrected. 6. A SNA LU6.2/5494 problem making it impossible to VARY ON AS/400 printer devices after VARY OFF has been corrected. 7. A SNA LU6.2/5494 flow control problem causing print jobs to hang has been corrected. 8. A SNA LU4/5494 problem related to end of job handling has been corrected. 9. Handling of SNA LU4/5494 Intervention Required (End of Forms) has been improved. 10. A SNA LU1/LU3/LU4 problem causing the Job Separation Timer not to start has been corrected. 11. In SNA 5494 mode the Print Server will now register as a 5494 controller model #2, not model #1 as before. 12. An IBM emulator problem causing the first line on some pages to be lost or truncated has been corrected. 13. An IBM emulator problem causing garbled printout when using GENERIC, IBM_PRO, EPSON_FX or EPSON_LQ printer drivers in conjunction with 3812 or 3816 printer emulation has been corrected. 14. An IBM Extended Emulation problem causing String Substitution (MSTR/SSTR) not to work has been corrected. 15. An IBM emulator problem causing incorrect printout orientation when changing between Portrait and Landscape has been corrected. 16. A SNA LU6.2/5494 problem causing print jobs to hang has been corrected. 17. Any changes of the SNA parameters NODE_ID, NODE_SAP or H1_SAP will now be immediately reflected on the Test Page. 18. Support for XID3 handling in SNA LU1/LU3/3174 mode has been added. This will enable the Print Server to connect to the Novell NetWare for SAA gateway release 2.2 and other servers/gateway that use XID3 negotiation when establishing the link. 19. An IBM emulator problem with the PCL Printer Driver causing the first line on the first page in a job to be lost has been corrected. 20. A rare IBM emulator problem causing the Print Server to change the font settings in the printer in the middle of a print job has been corrected. 21. A SNA LU1/LU3 problem causing the Print Server to acknowledge the print job before the complete job was sent to the printer has been corrected. 22. SNA pacing logic is modified in order to achieve a more relaxed traffic of data packets. 23. Responses to SNA Data Flow Requests modified. 24. When print data from the SNA System Services Control Point is received, a more appropriate negative response is returned. 25. The #, @ and $ characters are now accepted in APPN names. 26. A number of improvements and added checks for invalid packets in the LLC stack. 27. The LLC stack will now send LLC RR Poll every 15 seconds instead of every 40. 28. A NETBIOS memory management problem is corrected. 29. Improved memory handling in HTTP-setup. 30. A parameter handling problem that could occur when changing IBM Printer Driver is corrected. 31. A low level Ethernet problem with large packets is corrected. 32. A SNA LU3/3174 problem causing the Print Server to respond with a "Function Not Supported" negative acknowledge has been corrected. 33. A SNA LU4/5494 problem causing aborted print jobs has been corrected. 34. A SNA LU4/5494 problem causing the autoconfiguration process not to complete successfully has been corrected. 35. A SNA LU4/5494 problem related to end of job handling has been corrected. 36. A Job Timeout problem has been corrected. 37. DBCS support added This release is based on Print Server software release 5.39. The changes made in the 5.39 release is covered below: 1. Improved reliability of flash loading. This applies to both FTP and IPX flash loading. 2. Fixed a problem that made the print server hang sometimes when the IP address or netmask was changed during runtime. 3. NetWare. Fixed a problem that prevented print servers with version 5.36 to appear in NetPilot if there was a router in between. 4. The AppleTalk protocol now supports drivers for the Canon GPS 200 Fax/Printer. 5. Fixed a problem that generated NCP warnings if those warnings were enabled on a NetWare file server. 6. Added support for HP OpenSpool. Now possible to print directly to the print servers IP address with LPR without having to specify a printer port. 7. Fixed a problem that could cause infinite authentication pop-up messages when using MS Internet Explorer for configuration. 8. The AppleTalk configuration port with the _CFG extension will now dissappear one hour after power on. 9. The IP address, netmask, default router and trap address parameters can now be entered with dots between the numbers. 10. Status and accounting information is now updated periodically on the print server's web pages. 11. Configuration and management from the print server web pages don't require authentication if the root password is equal to the factory default value PASS. Recommendation: - An update to this release is recommended if any problems, related to the above changes, have been observed. Best regards AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A - DETAILED TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE App A Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.42 1. An IBM Emulator problem causing corrupt printout when changing from PCL to USER printer bank has been corrected. The problem would cause the printout to overlap. 2. A SNA LU3/3174 problem causing printout to be corrupted after 2000-3000 pages has been corrected. The problem was related to SNA LU3 memory handling. 3. An IBM emulator problem causing too many Form Feeds (FF) to be sent to the printer has been fixed. This would in some cases cause one page to be separated into several. 4. Support for configuration file loading via TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) has been added. TFTP is an UDP/IP protocol enabling the Print Server to download the configuration file from a TFTP server on the network. 5. An IBM Parameter Handler problem making it impossible to change Printer Emulation in twinax (5494) mode has been corrected. 6. A SNA LU6.2/5494 problem making it impossible to VARY ON AS/400 printer devices after VARY OFF has been corrected. The cause of the problem was incorrect handling if LU6.2 BIS packets. 7. A SNA LU6.2/5494 flow control problem causing print jobs to hang has been corrected. The problem was related to LU6.2 SIGNAL/LUSTAT handling and occurred primarly when operating over WAN links. 8. A SNA LU4/5494 problem related to end of job handling has been corrected. Packets containing 0 bytes of data are now accepted when reaching the end of a LU4 print job. 9. Handling of SNA LU4/5494 Intervention Required (End of Forms) has been improved. Before the print job could sometimes hang when the printer reported Intervention Required. Also, IR handling when printing on more than one printer at the same time has been improved. 10. A SNA LU1/LU3/LU4 problem causing the Job Separation Timer not to start has been corrected. This would cause some page(s) at the end of a print job not to be printed until the next print job was sent to the Print Server. 11. In SNA 5494 mode the Print Server will now register as a 5494 controller model #2, not model #1 as before. The 5494 model #2 is the LAN-attached version. 12. An IBM emulator problem causing the first line on some pages to be lost or truncated has been corrected. This was a complex problem, related to when to send cursor positioning commands to the printer. It only occurred when using PCL printer drivers. 13. An IBM emulator problem causing garbled printout when using GENERIC, IBM_PRO, EPSON_FX or EPSON_LQ printer drivers in conjunction with 3812 or 3816 laser printer emulation has been corrected. In some rare cases the print job could even hang because of this problem. 14. An IBM Extended Emulation problem causing String Substitution (MSTR/SSTR) not to work has been corrected. Before, String Substitution would only work if MSTR and SSTR both started with string #0 and then progressed upward with no "holes" in the sequence. Also MSTR=DEL and SSTR=DEL would not work as expected. Now, any combination of MSTR and SSTR will work, as well as MSTR=DEL/SSTR=DEL. 15. Changing between Landscape and Portrait orientation within the same SNA print job could in some situations cause incorrect orientation of the printout. Changing orientation without sending FF (Form Feed) between the pages would cause the emulator not to send the new orientation setting to the printer. This problem is now fixed. 16. A SNA LU6.2/5494 problem causing print jobs to hang have been corrected. The problem was related to the handling of LU6.2 SIGNAL and LUSTAT packets. 17. Any changes of the SNA parameters NODE_ID, NODE_SAP or H1_SAP will now be shown correctly on the Test Page. Before, when changing any of these parameters, the change would not show up on the Test Page unless the Print Server was restarted. IMPORTANT: ========= When changing any of the SNA parameters NODE_ID, NODE_SAP and H1_SAP, the SNA stack will be shut down and then immediately restarted. This will cause all active sessions to be shut down. The reason for this is that changing any of these parameters could affect the stability of any active SNA sessions. It is recommended not to change any of these parameters while any host session is active. 18. Support for XID3 handling in SNA LU1/LU3/3174 mode has been added. The XID (eXchange station IDentification) negotiation is performed when establishing a link between two SNA NAUs. In the past, the XID3 format has been reserved for PU2.1- capable nodes. But today some servers, (Novell NetWare for SAA version 2.2), use XID3 when communicating with PU2.0 nodes as well. 19. An IBM emulator problem with the PCL Printer Driver causing the first line on the first page in a job to be lost has been corrected. This problem occurred primarily with HP5 printers. 20. An IBM emulator problem causing the Print Server to change the font settings in the printer in the middle of a print job has been corrected. The problem occurred when the printer buffer filled up, causing the Print Server to wait until the printer had consumed the data. After such a wait, the Print Server would in some cases send erroneous commands to the printer, instructing it to change font settings. The problem would occur when printer settings sent by the host were preceded by extended emulation parameter settings. 21. A SNA LU1/LU3 problem causing the Print Server to acknowledge the print job before the complete job was sent from the Print Server to the printer has been corrected. As the print job was acknowledged too early, the Print Server seemed to be idle/available waiting for the next job when it was still processing the previous job. 22. SNA pacing logic is modified in order to achieve a more relaxed traffic of data packets. The previous approach yielded situations when both the IBM host and Print Server competed for sending data simultaneously. This situation typically caused problems with 5494 emulation in WAN environments. 23. Responses to SNA Data Flow Requests modified. The FM Header bit in SNA RHs is now set for all DFC responses. Sending DFC responses without this bit set, could cause problems with some mainframe applications. 24. When print data from the SNA System Services Control Point is received, a more appropriate negative response is returned. Print data from LU 0 now yields a "1003 - Category not supported" instead of a "1007 - Function not supported" negative response. 25. The #, @ and $ characters are now accepted in APPN parameter names. This applies to the Network, LU and CP names used with 5494 emulation. 26. A number of improvements and added checks for invalid packets in the LLC stack. Sending of I PDUs is now delayed when the client has sent reject PDUs. 27. The LLC stack will now send LLC RR Poll every 15 seconds instead of every 40. The previous value caused the Token Ring MAC Source Route cache to time out and clear the routing table. This fact caused the next packet to be transmitted as a broadcast. 28. A NETBIOS memory management problem is corrected. 29. Improved memory handling in HTTP-setup. 30. A parameter handling problem that could occur when changing IBM Printer Driver is corrected. Some parameter values ended up with a "illegal value" when the printer driver was changed. 31. A rare low level Ethernet problem with large packets is corrected. This caused the Print Server to reject all incoming data packets. 32. A SNA LU3/3174 problem causing the Print Server to respond with a "Function Not Supported" negative acknowledge has been corrected. This problem typically occurred when small LU3 packets were sent to the Print Server. 33. A SNA LU4/5494 problem causing aborted print jobs has been corrected. This problem was related to the pacing count logic. 34. A SNA LU4/5494 problem causing the autoconfiguration process not to complete successfully has been corrected. This problem was related to LU 6.2 handshaking logic. 35. A SNA LU4/5494 problem related to end of job handling has been corrected. Although the print job was printed correctly, the job sometimes was not terminated from the AS/400 writers point of view. 36. A Job Timeout problem has been corrected. The Job Timeout function could expire in the previous release causing the current page to be ejected too early. 37. 5x27 emulations added. 5x27 emulations will only work in 5494 mode. The following character tables is used: emulation country character table ------------------------------------------ 5x27_001_TX Japan Shift-JIS 5x27_002_KS_TX Korea KS 5x27_002_KSSM_TX Korea KSSM 5x27_005_TX China Simplified chinese The following fonts are default: emulation Typeface Symbol Set ----------------------------------------- 5x27_001_TX MS Mincho Windows 3.1J 5x27_002_KS_TX HanYang KS C5601 5x27_002_KSSM_TX Compst KS C5601 5x27_005_TX SimSung GB 2312 This release is based on Print Server software release 5.39. The changes made in the 5.39 release is covered below: 1. The flash loading is now more reliable. When upgrading a unit that has a software revision lower than 5.39, the flash loading could fail. For units with revision 5.39 or higher, flash loading is more robust. 2. If the IP-address or the subnet mask of the print server was changed while one or more reverse telnet port were configured (set to something else than 0), the print server could hang and would have to be manually restarted. 3. NetWare. Software relase 5.36 introduced a problem in the NetWare RIP protocol which prevented the print server from appearing in AXIS NetPilot on the other side of a router. This problem is now solved. 4. No additional information. 5. Among all the Set Parameters on a NetWare File Server, one can in the NCP section choose the following (default is OFF): "Display NCP Bad Component Warnings" "Display NCP Bad Length Warnings" By enabling these warnings the following message was displayed: "Processed an NCP with a bad sub-function length". 6. The print jobs sent using e.g. OpenSpool will be printed on the printer defined in the parameter DEF_OUT. 7. When the authentication information was split in two packets the print server would not recognize the password. 8. The AppleTalk configuration port will only appear during the first hour after power on. Resetting the unit will make the _CFG port visible again. 9. The IP address, netmask, default router and trap address parameters can now be entered in the format "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" in the configuration file. A space between each number will also work as before. 10. The status is updated every 5 seconds and the accounting page every 5 seconds. 11. No additional information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix B - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS App B Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.42 1. The SNA stack is single host only. Multiple IBM hosts cannot access the Print Server simultaneously. 2. Although it is possible to define several logical units on the IBM host system, the AXIS 570/670 will only print one SNA job at a time. SNA Jobs are held in a print queue within the AXIS 570/670 and are processed on a first-come-first-served basis. 3. The SNA parameters LU_NAME and CP_NAME must be equal. 4. DBCS supported for PCL printers only. This release is based on Print Server release 5.39. The Software Limitations in the 5.39 release are detailed below: Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.42 1. Secondary printer function doesn't work when printing from AXPUW nor AXIS Print Monitor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix C - AFFECTED MATERIAL App C 1( ) Product involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.42 Draft texts for manual updates: NPS Technical Reference Support for editable character tables added and the text in "AXIS HP-MIO TECH REF 1.1 ADDENDUM Editable character translation" shall be inserted in the NPS Technical Reference. Other: This release is covered in version 2.1 of AXIS 570/670 User's Manual, part no 14425. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- END OF RELEASE DOCUMENT