Brother NC6100H- User Manual

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i Trademarks Brother is a registered trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd.HP, HP-UX, JetDirect and JetAdmin are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.DEC, DEC server, VMS, LAT, and ULTRIX are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.UNIX is a trademarks of UNIX Systems Laboratories.Ethernet is tr...

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ii IMPORTANT NOTE: For technical and operational assistance, you must call. Calls must be made from within that country. In USA 1-800-276-7746 In Canada 1-877-BROTHER(514) 685-6464 (In Montreal) If you have any comments or suggestions, please write to us at: In Europe European Technical Services1 Ta...

Page 4 - iii; IMPORTANT INFORMATION: REGULATIONS; Important; Industry Canada Compliance Statement (For Canada only)

iii IMPORTANT INFORMATION: REGULATIONS Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Declaration of Conformity (For U.S.A. only) Responsible Party: Brother International Corporation 100 Somerset Corporate BoulevardBridgewater, NJ 08807-0911, USATEL: (908) 704-1700 declares, that the products Product Name:...

Page 5 - iv; Intel Copyright and License Information

iv Intel Copyright and License Information This products includes object code from Intel’s UPnP SDK.The following is the copyright and licensing information for Intel UPnP SDK. Copyright© 2000 Intel Corporation All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without m...

Page 6 - “EC” Declaration of Conformity

v “EC” Declaration of Conformity ManufacturerBrother Industries Ltd.,15-1, Naeshiro-cho, Mizuho-ku,Nagoya 467-8561, Japan PlantShima Buji Xialilang Factory,Xialilang Village, Buji, Long Gang,Shenzhen, China 518112 Herewith declare that: Product description : Brother Network Card Product Name : NC-61...

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vi Table of Contents IMPORTANT INFORMATION: REGULATIONS ........... iii Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Declaration of Conformity (For U.S.A. only) .............. iiiIndustry Canada Compliance Statement (For Canada only) ..........................................................................

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vii LAN Server, OS/2 Warp Server Configuration ........... 2-7 Server Configuration............................................... 2-7Configuration of an OS/2 Server ............................ 2-8 Other Sources of Information ................................... 2-10 3 Peer to Peer Printing ..........

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viii Brother Internet Print: Configuring the Brother Print Server ......................................................................... 5-3 Print Server Configuration Checklist....................... 5-3 Brother Internet Print: Using BRAdmin to Configure the Print Server............................

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ix Configuring the Brother Print Server (Remote Printer Mode) Using PCONSOLE and BRCONFIG............................................................... 6-18Other Sources of Information ................................... 6-22 7 Printing From a Macintosh ® ..............................................

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xi WebJetAdmin .........................................................A-2TELNET ..................................................................A-2BRCONFIG.............................................................A-2 Using Services ................................................................

Page 13 - Unix Printing; Overview; The default password for Brother print servers is

1 - 1 UNIX PRINTING 1 1 Unix Printing Printing from Unix/Linux Using TCP/IP Overview Brother print servers are supplied with the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite. Since virtually all UNIX host computers support TCP/IP, this capability allows a printer to be sha...

Page 14 - xxxxxx; General TCP/IP UNIX Host Configuration

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 2 4 The default name for a Brother print server is usually BRN_xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address of the print server). 5 When configuring the PRINTCAP file, pay particular attention to the service names, BINARY_P1 and TEXT_P1. TCP/IP Brother print ...

Page 18 - Linux Configuration; Linux Configuration Using CUPS

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 6 Linux Configuration If you do not wish to use the command line interface to configure your Linux distribution, you may wish to use the Linux Printer System Manager application on your GUI. To do this, do the following: 1 From the Linux Printer System Manager screen, click the Add...

Page 19 - You may accept the default values for the remaining items.; Click OK to configure the printer.

1 - 7 UNIX PRINTING HP-UX Configuration In the case of HP-UX10.xx, the sam program is used to set up the remote printer. The steps are as follows: 1 Execute the sam program. From the list of options, select Printers and Plotters. 2 Select LP Spooler. 3 Select Printers and Plotters. 4 Select Actions ...

Page 20 - IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 8 Earlier versions of HP-UX use similar procedures to 10.xx users: 1 Enter sam and select Peripheral Devices and then Add Remote Printer (not Networked printer). 2 Enter the following remote printer settings (the other settings do not matter): ■ Line printer name (user-selectable)....

Page 21 - Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration; enable queue

1 - 9 UNIX PRINTING The procedure for pre-V4.0 systems is as follows. 1 Enter smit and select devices. 2 Select printer/plotter. 3 Select manage remote printer subsystem. 4 Select client services. 5 Select remote printer queues. 6 Select add a remote queue. 7 Enter the following remote queue setting...

Page 22 - SCO UNIX Configuration

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 10 If this is the first printer configured, you must also use the lpsched command prior to the accept command. As an alternative, you may use Printer Manager in the Admintool utility under OpenWindows. Select Edit, Add, and Add Access to Remote Printer. Then enter the print server ...

Page 24 - Edit the Host Print Transform source code:

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 12 Use the following one-line OS/400 command to create the LPD queue: CRTOUTQ OUTQ(<queuename> RMSTSYS(*INTNETADR) RMTPRTQ(<service>)AUTOSTRWTR(1) CNNTYPE(*IP) DESTTYPE (*OTHER)MFRTYPMDL (<driver>)INTNETADR('<ipaddress>') TEXT('<description>') where &l...

Page 25 - Other Systems; mkdir; Requested information:

1 - 13 UNIX PRINTING OS/400 version 4, 5, 5.1You can also use the following command line to create a printer definition: CRTDEVPRT DEVD(BR2) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) FONT(011) PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1) TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI) PPRSRC1(*A4) PPRSRC2(*A4) RMTL...

Page 26 - Other Sources of Information

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 14 On some systems it is also necessary to start the daemon. This is done on Berkeley-compatible UNIX systems with the lpc start command as shown in the following example: lpc start laser1 Other Sources of Information Refer to chapter 10 of this User’s Guide to learn how to configu...

Page 27 - access

2 - 1 TCP/IP PRINTING 2 2 TCP/IP Printing Printing from Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows ® 2000/XP, LAN Server and Warp Server Overview Users of Windows NT ® 4.0 can print directly to a network-ready Brother printer using the TCP/IP protocol. Microsoft Windows NT ® 4.0 users must install Microsoft's "T...

Page 28 - Windows NT; Control Panel window of the Windows NT; Windows; Standard TCP/IP Port Printing

TCP/IP PRINTING 2 - 2 4 Windows ® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP protocol via a Windows ® 2000/XP computer providing that the Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on the client PC, IIS is installed and running on the Windows ® 2000/XP computer and that the client...

Page 30 - Select the printer driver you wish to configure.; Select File and then choose Properties.; Click the Close button. The Windows NT; system will review

TCP/IP PRINTING 2 - 4 Windows ® 2000/XP Printing (Printer Driver already installed) If you have already installed the printer driver and wish to configure it for network printing, follow these steps: 1 Select the printer driver you wish to configure. 2 Select File and then choose Properties. 3 Click...

Page 31 - Click OK to exit (your Windows NT; workstation or server will; Click on Next in response to the Welcome message.; where

2 - 5 TCP/IP PRINTING 7 Click OK to exit (your Windows NT ® 4.0 workstation or server will need to be re-booted). Windows NT ® 4.0 Printing: Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software 1 Start the CD-ROM installation menu program according to the Quick Setup Guide. 2 Select the desired Language and...

Page 32 - You must now create a printer on your Windows; If desired, change the name of the printer then click Next.

TCP/IP PRINTING 2 - 6 Windows NT ® 4.0 Printing: Associating to the Printer You must now create a printer on your Windows ® system using the standard Windows ® printer setup procedure. 1 To do this, go to the Start button, select Settings and then Printers. 2 Double click the Add Printer icon to get...

Page 33 - Server Configuration

2 - 7 TCP/IP PRINTING Windows NT ® 4.0 Printing: Adding a Second Brother LPR Port You do not need to re-run the install program to add a new Brother LPR port. Instead, click the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click on the icon of the printer that you wish to configure, ...

Page 34 - Configuration of an OS/2 Server

TCP/IP PRINTING 2 - 8 Configuration of an OS/2 Server 1 From the OS/2 desktop open the Templates folder. Use the right mouse button to drag the Printer icon (not the Network Printer icon) onto the desktop. 2 The Create a Printer window should be open (if it is not, double click on the printer icon)....

Page 37 - - 1 PEER TO PEER PRINTING; Peer to Peer Printing; How to Print in a Windows; networking capabilities. These capabilities allow a Windows

3 - 1 PEER TO PEER PRINTING 3 3 Peer to Peer Printing How to Print in a Windows ® 95/98/Me Peer to Peer Network Overview Microsoft's Windows ® 95/98/Me operating systems feature built-in networking capabilities. These capabilities allow a Windows ® PC to be configured as a client workstation in a fi...

Page 38 - Driver Deployment Wizard

PEER TO PEER PRINTING 3 - 2 4 Windows ® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP protocol via a Windows ® 2000 computer providing that the Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on the client PC, IIS is installed and running on the Windows ® 2000 and that the client PC is us...

Page 39 - Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software

3 - 3 PEER TO PEER PRINTING Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software 1 Start the CD-ROM installation menu program according to the Quick Setup Guide. 2 Select the proper model and then the Software Installation menu. Then select the appropriate menu to start the Brother Network Print Software in...

Page 40 - Associating to the Printer

PEER TO PEER PRINTING 3 - 4 8 Click the OK button. When prompted you must re-boot your computer. Associating to the Printer You must now create a printer on your Windows ® system using the standard Windows ® printer setup procedure. 1 To do this, go the Start button, select Settings and then Printer...

Page 41 - - 5 PEER TO PEER PRINTING; Adding a Second Brother LPR Port

3 - 5 PEER TO PEER PRINTING Adding a Second Brother LPR Port You do not re-run the install program to add a new Brother LPR port. Instead, click the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click on the icon of the printer that you wish to configure, select File from the menu bar...

Page 42 - NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 1; NetBIOS Peer to Peer Printing; NT; PC's, Brother printers can appear in your

NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 1 4 4 NetBIOS Peer to Peer Printing How to Print Using NetBIOS in Windows ® 95/98/Me/2000/XP, Windows NT ® 4.0, LAN Server and OS/2 Warp Server Overview Brother print server range supports SMB (server message block) over the TCP/IP protocol via the NetBIOS interface...

Page 43 - Print Server Configuration; WORKGROUP

4 - 2 NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING Print Server Configuration In order for this function to work, you must correctly change the domain name or workgroup name to match that of your network. Once this is done, the print server will appear automatically in your network neighborhood and you will be abl...

Page 45 - - 4 NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING; NetBIOS Port Monitor for Windows; computer. To install those protocols refer to your Windows; Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor; Click the Next button in response to the Welcome message.

4 - 4 NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING NetBIOS Port Monitor for Windows ® 95/98/Me/ 2000/XP and Windows NT ® 4.0 This software requires the TCP/IP transport protocols to be installed on your Windows ® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT ® 4.0 computer. To install those protocols refer to your Windows ® doc...

Page 46 - Associating the Printer; Start button, select Setting and then Printers.

NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 5 7 You must now enter the server name and port name for the actual print server. You can use the Browse button to search for the print server, select the domain/workgroup name, and then the server is listed. If the print server does not automatically appear in your...

Page 48 - NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 7; Select Not Shared or Shared and Share Name and click Next.; select Yes and then select Finish.; Adding a Second NetBIOS Print Port

NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 7 8 Enter any desired name for the Brother printer and click Next. For example, you could call the printer "Networked Brother Printer". 9 Select Not Shared or Shared and Share Name and click Next. 10 Windows ® will now ask you if you wish to print out a test...

Page 49 - - 8 NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING; LAN Server/OS/2 Warp Server Configuration; Server Configuration:; Open the Templates folder on the OS/2 desktop.; Choose the appropriate printer driver from the list.; Click Create and then OK.; If desired, indicate whether you want to share the printer.

4 - 8 NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING Windows NT ® 4.0 / Windows ® 2000/XP 2 Click on the Ports tab and click the Add Port button. In the Add Port dialog, highlight Brother NetBIOS port. Click New Port and enter the port name. The default port name is BNT1. If you have already used this name, you will...

Page 50 - Workstation Configuration:; NodeName

NETBIOS PEER TO PEER PRINTING 4 - 9 Workstation Configuration: On each workstation that you wish to print from, execute the following step: Go to the DOS or OS/2 command prompt and enter the command: NET USE LPTx: \\NodeName\ServiceName Where x is the LPT port number (1 through 9), NodeName is the N...

Page 51 - Internet Printing Installation

5 - 1 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 5 5 Configuring Internet Printing for Windows ® Internet Printing Installation Overview Brother's Brother Internet Print (BIP) software, for Windows ® 95/98/ Me and Windows NT ® 4.0, allows a PC user at one location to send a print job to a Brother P...

Page 52 - Brother Internet Print General Information

CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 5 - 2 5 Windows ® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP protocol via Windows ® 2000 computer, provided that the Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on the client PC, Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed and running ...

Page 53 - - 3 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS; Print Server Configuration Checklist

5 - 3 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® ■ At the remote site, an E-mail server receives the E-mail message. The remote print server, which has its own E-mail address, uses the POP3 protocol (Post Office Protocol 3) to download the E-mail message from the e-mail server. It then decodes the ...

Page 58 - Start button, select Settings and then Printers.

CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 5 - 8 9 You will then be asked to enter the port settings for the remote print server: Enter any unique legal Internet E-mail address for the remote print server (for example [email protected]). Note that Internet E-mail addresses cannot have spaces in the...

Page 59 - - 9 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS

5 - 9 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 17 Select the Brother Internet port (BIP...) which you selected in step 6 and click Next. <For Windows NT ® 4.0 and Windows ® 2000/XP users> 15 Select the Brother Internet port (BIP...) which you selected in step 6 and click Next. 16 Select the...

Page 60 - Printer, or a Printer attached to another computer.

CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 5 - 10 Adding a Second Brother Internet Port You should not re-run the install program to add a new Brother Internet Port. Instead, click the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click on the icon of a printer that is using BIP, sel...

Page 62 - CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS; Specifying a Different URL; Where

CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS ® 5 - 12 Specifying a Different URL Please note that there are several possible entries that you can enter for the URL field. http://printer_ip_address:631/ippThis is the default URL and we recommend that you use this URL. Please note the Get More Info optio...

Page 63 - - 1 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING; Novell NetWare Printing

6 - 1 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 6 Novell NetWare Printing How to Configure Novell NetWare Printing Overview Brother print servers allow NetWare client PCs to print jobs on the same printer as TCP/IP or other network protocol users. All NetWare jobs are spooled through the Novell server and delivered...

Page 64 - NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 2; General Information

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 2 General Information In order to use a Brother print server on a NetWare network, one or more file servers must be configured with a print queue that the print server can service. Users send their print requests to the file server's print queue, and the jobs are then spo...

Page 65 - - 3 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING; NDPS Manager; Enter an NDPS manager name.

6 - 3 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING Creating a NDPS Printer Using NWADMIN for NetWare5 With NetWare 5, Novell has released a new preferred printing system called Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS). Before the print server can be configured, NDPS must be installed on the NetWare 5 server and an NDPS ...

Page 66 - NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 4; NDPS Broker; To add a Printer Driver to the Broker:; Make sure the Resource Management Service is enabled.

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 4 NDPS Broker When NDPS is installed, an NDPS broker is loaded onto the network. One of the Broker services Resource Management Service allows Printer Drivers to be installed onto the server for use with Printer Agents. To add a Printer Driver to the Broker: 1 Make sure t...

Page 67 - - 5 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING; Creating a Printer Agent; If this is a new printer select create A New Printer Agent.; for the printer name. Click; In NetWare Administrator, double click NDPS Manager.

6 - 5 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING Creating a Printer Agent Follow the steps below to create a Printer Agent for the control access printer (NDS object). 1 In NetWare Administrator, select object | create | NDPS Printer. Enter the NDPS printer name. 2 If this is a new printer select create A New Printer ...

Page 68 - Configuring NetWare 3 and NetWare 4 Systems

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 6 5 Select None for the printer Type, and Novell Port Handler for the Port Handler Type. Then click OK. 6 You must now specify the type of connection that you are going to use. There are four possible options. Select the LPR over IP option. 7 Enter the relevant details of...

Page 70 - Select the NetWare tab.

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 8 Creating the NetWare Print Server (NDS Queue Server) Using BRAdmin Professional Utility 1 Make sure that you logged in as ADMIN in NDS mode. 2 Start BRAdmin. 3 One or more print server services will appear in the list (the default node names are BRN_xxxxxx , where xxxxx...

Page 71 - Enter the name of the printer and select Create.

6 - 9 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING e Your queue name will appear in the TREE and Context that you specified. Select the queue and click on Add. The queue name will then be transferred to the Service Print Queues Window. You will be able to see the TREE and Context information along with the queue name in...

Page 72 - Enter the name of the print server and select Create.

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 10 7 Change context if required and then double click the name of the printer you created in step 3. 8 Click Assignments. 9 Click Add. 10 Change the context if necessary. 11 Select the print queue you created in step 5. 12 Click Configuration and set the Printer type to O...

Page 73 - Select Queue Server as the operating mode.; Type in the name of the context where the print server resides.

6 - 11 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 18 Start the appropriate BRAdmin application, and select the correct print server from the list (by default, the node name is BRN_xxxxxx , where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address)). 19 Double click the appropriate Brother print server. ...

Page 75 - Now select the NetWare tab.

6 - 13 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 12 Change context if necessary and select the print queue you created. Click OK and then OK again, and then exit NWADMIN. 13 Start the appropriate BRAdmin application, and select the correct print server you wish to configure (by default, the node names will begin with...

Page 78 - NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 16; Select Printers from the Available Options menu.

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 16 Important:Do not assign a password to the print server or it will not log in. 5 Return to the main Available Options menu by pressing ESCAPE. 6 Select Print Queues. 7 Press INSERT type in the desired print queue name (you will also be asked for a volume name. Press INS...

Page 81 - - 19 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING

6 - 19 NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 5 Press INSERT, type in the desired print queue name (with NetWare 4.1x, you will also be asked for a volume name; press INSERT and select the appropriate volume), and press ESCAPE to return to the main menu. The following steps apply to configuring a remote printer wi...

Page 84 - NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 22

NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 22 Other Sources of Information 1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com for more information on network printing. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User’s Guide to learn how to configure the IP address of the printer.

Page 85 - Printing from a Macintosh

7 - 1 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 7 7 Printing From a Macintosh ® Printing from a Macintosh ® Using AppleTalk ® and TCP/IP or the Simple Network Configuration capabilities of Mac OS ® X. Overview Brother print servers support the AppleTalk protocol running over Ethernet (also known as EtherTalk). Th...

Page 86 - Configure AppleTalk. Click on

PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 7 - 2 Quick Tips: 1 The default name that will appear in the Chooser of a Macintosh ® will usually be BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT (where xxxxxx is the last 6 digits of the Ethernet address) 2 From a Macintosh ® network, the easiest way to change this name is to assign an IP address ...

Page 87 - - 3 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH; Macintosh; documentation for instructions on how to do this.; . If the EtherTalk protocol is not selected, or the Network; The printer driver installation is completed.

7 - 3 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® Macintosh ® Configuration (Mac OS ® 8.6 to 9.2) Your Brother Printer is compatible with the standard Apple LaserWriter 8 printer driver (earlier versions of the LaserWriter drivers may crash or cause PostScript errors on large networks). If you do not have the Laser...

Page 88 - Open the Chooser from the Apple Menu on the Macintosh

PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 7 - 4 How to Select the Print Server (AppleTalk/EtherTalk) Once the print server is connected on your network and the printer is powered on, the Brother print server’s AppleTalk service name (default is BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT , where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Etherne...

Page 89 - - 5 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH

7 - 5 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 2 Select Printer LPR, and then click OK. 3 Click Change in PostScript Printer Description (PPD) File. 4 Select the appropriate PPD file for the printer and click Select.

Page 90 - PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH; Click Change in LPR Printer Selection.; XXXXXX

PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 7 - 6 5 Click Change in LPR Printer Selection. 6 Enter the IP address and service name of the printer you are using. When specifying the queue, use the BRN_XXXXXX_P1_AT . XXXXXX are the last six digits of the Ethernet address. 7 Click OK. ■ Printing the printer settings p...

Page 91 - From the Priting menu, select Set Default Printer.

7 - 7 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 8 Click Create. 9 Enter the name of the printer you are using under Save desktop printer as, then click Save.Example) HL-XXXX series 10 Click the printer icon on the Desktop. 11 From the Priting menu, select Set Default Printer. Whenever you send a print job, the pr...

Page 94 - How to Select the Printer Driver

PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH ® 7 - 10 Printing from a Macintosh ® Using the Simple Network Configuration capabilities of Mac OS ® X. The Simple Network Configuration capabilities of Mac OS ® X lets you create an instant network of computers and smart devices by connecting them to each other. The smart ...

Page 96 - DLC Printing; Printing from Windows NT; Network icon. Windows

DLC PRINTING 8 - 1 8 8 DLC Printing Printing from Windows NT ® 4.0 or Windows ® 2000 Overview DLC is a simple protocol that is included in Windows NT ® 4.0 and Windows ® 2000 as standard. It can be used on other operating systems (such as Windows ® 3.x) with the addition of vendor-supplied software ...

Page 97 - Select DLC Protocol and then OK or Add if using Windows; Reboot your system to make the change take effect. Windows; Log into Windows; the Start menu, select Settings and then Printers.

8 - 2 DLC PRINTING 3 Select DLC Protocol and then OK or Add if using Windows ® 2000. You may be asked for the location of the files. For Intel based computers, the necessary files are stored in the i386 directory of the Windows NT ® 4.0 CD-ROM. If you have a non- Intel platform, specify the correct ...

Page 98 - Select the correct driver click Next.; Specify the share name (if you are going to share the printer).; Log into Windows NT; Start menu, select Settings and then Printers.

DLC PRINTING 8 - 3 9 The selected print server address will then appear in the smaller box under Card Address. 10 Type in any desired name for the port (the name must not be the name of an existing port or DOS device, such as LPT1) and click OK then on the Printer Ports screen, click Next. 11 Select...

Page 99 - Configuring DLC on Other Systems

8 - 4 DLC PRINTING 6 The selected print server address will then appear in the smaller box under Card Address. 7 Type in any desired name for the port (the name must not be the name of an existing port or DOS device, such as LPT1) and click OK then on the Printer Ports screen, click Close. 8 The nam...

Page 101 - Web Based Management

9 - 1 WEB BASED MANAGEMENT 9 9 Web Based Management How to use a Web Browser to Manage Your Device Overview A standard Web Browser (we recommend Netscape Navigator version 4.0 or later/Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later) can be used to manage your printer using the HTTP (Hyper Text Tra...

Page 103 - Assigning TCP/IP Information; BRAdmin application (for Windows

10 - 1 TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 10 10 TCP/IP Configuration Assigning TCP/IP Information Overview The TCP/IP protocol requires that each device on the network have it's own unique IP address. Use the following information to learn about IP address configuration. The Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA...

Page 105 - Select IPX/SPX filter in the left frame of the main window.; Check the print server name (the default node name is; In the IP Config box, click the Static radio button.

10 - 3 TCP/IP CONFIGURATION Using BRAdmin and the IPX/SPX Protocol to Set the IP Address If your PC is using the Novell NetWare Client software and is using the IPX/SPX protocol, do the following: 1 Select IPX/SPX filter in the left frame of the main window. 2 Check the print server name (the defaul...

Page 107 - Using DHCP to Configure the IP Address; Using APIPA to Configure the IP Address; By default, the APIPA protocol is enabled.

10 - 5 TCP/IP CONFIGURATION Using DHCP to Configure the IP Address The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is one of several automated mechanisms for IP address allocation. If you have DHCP Server in your network (typically a Unix/Linux, Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows ® 2000 or Novell NetWare netw...

Page 108 - Windows® Systems

TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 10 - 6 Using ARP to Configure the Print Server IP Address If you are unable to use the BRAdmin application or the printer’s control panel and your network does not use a DHCP server, you can also use the ARP command. The ARP command is available on Windows ® systems that have TC...

Page 110 - Using RARP to Configure the IP Address; file (if this file does not exist, you can

TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 10 - 8 Using RARP to Configure the IP Address The Brother print server’s IP address can be configured using the Reverse ARP (rarp) facility on your host computer. This is done by editing the /etc/ethers file (if this file does not exist, you can create it) with an entry similar ...

Page 111 - Using BOOTP to Configure the IP Address; file on your host as a real service type

10 - 9 TCP/IP CONFIGURATION Using BOOTP to Configure the IP Address BOOTP is an alternative to rarp that has the advantage of allowing configuration of the subnet mask and gateway. In order to use BOOTP to configure the IP address make sure that BOOTP is installed and running on your host computer (...

Page 112 - Configuring the IP Address with BRCONFIG; Execute BRCONFIG from the Windows

TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 10 - 10 Certain BOOTP host software implementations will not respond to BOOTP requests if you have not included a download filename in the configuration file; if this is the case, simply create a null file on the host and specify the name of this file and its path in the configu...

Page 116 - TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 1; Troubleshooting; Installation Problems; If you cannot print over the network, check the following:

TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 1 11 11 Troubleshooting Overview This chapter describes procedures for troubleshooting problems you may encounter with a Brother print server, it is divided into the following sections: 1 Installation Problems 2 Intermittent Problems 3 Protocol-Specific Troubleshooting Installat...

Page 117 - If you are running AppleTalk for Macintosh

11 - 2 TROUBLESHOOTING 2 If the configuration page prints but you cannot print documents, try the following a If you are using TCP/IP:Try pinging the print server from the host operating system command prompt with the command: ping ipaddress Where ipaddress is the print server IP address (note that ...

Page 119 - 1 - 4 TROUBLESHOOTING; Intermittent Problems

11 - 4 TROUBLESHOOTING 6 If the job exits the queue but does not print, make sure that you are not trying to print a text job to a PostScript printer. If you have a printer that is capable of automatic language switching, make sure that the printer is not forced into PostScript mode. Intermittent Pr...

Page 120 - UNIX Troubleshooting

TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 5 2 If you used BRCONFIG, NCP or to enter the IP address, make sure that you exited the remote console properly with a CTRL-D or EXIT and that you turned the printer off and then again (it may take up to two minutes for the IP address to take effect). 3 Make sure that the TCP/IP...

Page 122 - TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 7; If you are having trouble printing with Windows NT; If you are having trouble printing on a Windows

TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 7 Windows NT ® 4.0/LAN Server (TCP/IP) Troubleshooting If you are having trouble printing with Windows NT ® 4.0 or LAN Server, check the following: 1 Make sure that TCP/IP and TCP/IP print service are installed and running on the Windows NT ® system or the LAN Server file server...

Page 124 - TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 9

TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 9 Brother Internet Print (TCP/IP) Troubleshooting 1 The first step in troubleshooting is to make sure that you have a valid E-mail connection on both the sending PC and the receiving print server. Try sending an E-mail message from the PC to a user at the remote site who can rec...

Page 125 - Novell NetWare Troubleshooting

11 - 10 TROUBLESHOOTING Get More Info option in Windows ® 2000 not working If you are using a URL of: http://ip_address:631 or http://ip_address:631/ipp , the Get More Info option in Windows ® 2000 will not function. If you wish to use the Get More Info option use the following URL: http://ip_addres...

Page 126 - AppleTalk Troubleshooting

TROUBLESHOOTING 11 - 11 1 If you changed the login password, you must change the password in both the Brother print server (using the SET NETWARE PASSWORD command if you are using the BRConfig software) or by using a web browser or the BRAdmin application and in the file server (using the PCONSOLE P...

Page 127 - DLC/LLC Troubleshooting; Make sure that the MAC address of the Windows

11 - 12 TROUBLESHOOTING 3 If you have a large network, make sure that you have the Laser Writer V8.xx or equivalent driver, since earlier versions may cause PostScript errors. Also, verify that you get the correct printer information when you select Printer Info from the Setup button in the Chooser....

Page 128 - Appendix; Appendix A; • Brother BRAdmin application for Windows; Web BRAdmin

APPENDIX A - 1 A A Appendix Appendix A General Information You can change the configuration of your print server using any of the following methods. • Brother BRAdmin application for Windows ® 95/98/Me, Windows NT ® 4.0 and Windows ® 2000/XP • Brother Web BRAdmin application for IIS*• HTTP (using a ...

Page 129 - WebJetAdmin; Brother's print server range is HP WebJetAdmin compatible.; TELNET; anything in response to the; BRCONFIG; get the

A - 2 APPENDIX HTTP (Recommended) Use your favorite web browser to connect to the Brother print server. This will allow you to configure printer and/or print server parameters. WebJetAdmin Brother's print server range is HP WebJetAdmin compatible. TELNET To connect to the print server using TELNET o...

Page 130 - Using Services; General

APPENDIX A - 3 Using Services General A service is a resource that can be accessed by computers that wish to print to the Brother print server. The Brother print server provides the following predefined services (do a SHOW SERVICE command in the Brother print server remote console to see a list of a...

Page 131 - Reloading the Print Server Firmware; Use the BRAdmin application (Recommended)

A - 4 APPENDIX Reloading the Print Server Firmware General The firmware on the print server is stored in flash memory. This means that you can upgrade the firmware by downloading the appropriate update file. To get the latest firmware update, visit the Brother Solutions web site at http://solutions....

Page 132 - Reloading Firmware Using BRAdmin

APPENDIX A - 5 Reloading Firmware Using BRAdmin The BRAdmin application can be used to easily re-program your Brother print server. 1 Start BRAdmin. 2 Highlight the appropriate print server. Then select the Control menu and choose Load Firmware. You can select more than one print server by pressing ...

Page 133 - filename

A - 6 APPENDIX If you encounter problems upgrading the firmware and you find that the network portion of the printer no longer functions, you should try re-programming the print server by using the COPY command from the DOS prompt of your PC. To do this, connect a parallel cable between your PC and ...

Page 134 - cambridge

APPENDIX A - 7 Reloading Using the FTP Protocol from a Command Prompt By specifying the print server PASSWORD AS THE USERNAME when logging on, it becomes possible to upgrade the firmware of the print server or printer (if supported). The following example assumes that the print server password is &#...

Page 136 - Index

INDEX I - 1 I Index A AIX ..................................... 1-3 AIX 4.0 ............................... 1-8 APIPA ....................... 1-1 , 10-5 AppleTalk ... 7-1 , 7-4 , 7-8 , 11-2 , 11-11 ARP ................. 1-2 , 10-1 , 10-6 B Berkeley UNIX ................... 1-1 BINARY_P1 .........1-2...

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