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  • Brother International 8050N | Network Users Manual - English - Page 1
    .com) is your one stop resource for all your printer needs. Download the latest drivers and utilities for your printers, read the FAQs and troubleshooting tips. Some Brother printer models are network ready as standard. Other Brother printers can be upgraded with an optional Network Print Server
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    Manager, Windows, and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other brand and product names mentioned in this user's guide are registered trademarks or trademarks of respective companies. Compilation and Publication Under the supervision of Brother Industries Ltd., this manual has been
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    Services 1 Tame Street Audenshaw Manchester, M34 5JE UK In USA Printer Customer Support Brother International Corporation 15 Musick Irvine CA 92618 In Canada Brother to any fax machine. Call the number below and follow the recorded instructions to receive a fax about how to use the system and an
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    1-6 HP-UX Windows® 2000/XP (TCP/IP) Configuration 2-2 Windows® 2000/XP Printing (Printer Driver not yet installed 2-2 Standard TCP/IP Port Printing 2-2 Windows® 2000/XP Printing (Printer Driver already installed 2-4 Windows NT®4.0 Printing 2-4 Windows NT®4.0 Printing: Installing the Brother
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    /98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 4-4 Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor 4-4 Associating the Printer 4-5 Windows® 95/98/Me 4-5 Windows NT®4.0 /Windows® 2000/XP 4-6 Adding a Second NetBIOS Print Port 4-7 Windows® 95/98/Me 4-7 Windows NT®4.0 / Windows® 2000/XP 4-8 LAN Server
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    Adding a Second Brother Internet Port 5-10 Windows® 2000/XP IPP Printing 5-10 Specifying a Different URL 5-12 Other Sources of Information 5-12 Novell NetWare Printing 6-1 How to Configure Novell NetWare Printing 6-1 Overview 6-1 General Information 6-2 Creating a NDPS Printer Using NWADMIN
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    the Printer Driver 7-10 Changing the Configuration 7-11 Other Sources of Information 7-11 8 DLC Printing 8-1 Printing from Windows NT®4.0 or Windows® 2000 8-1 Overview 8-1 Configuring DLC on Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 2000 8-1 Windows® 2000 Printer Setup 8-2 Windows NT®4.0 Printer
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    Troubleshooting 11-7 Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer (HP JetAdmin Compatible Method) Troubleshooting 11-8 Windows® 95/98/Me and Windows NT®4.0 Peer-to-Peer Print (NetBIOS) Troubleshooting 11-8 Brother Internet Print (TCP/IP) Troubleshooting ...... 11-9 Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP IPP Troubleshooting
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    Reloading Using the FTP Protocol from a Command Prompt A-7 Reloading Using the FTP Protocol from a Web Browser A-8 13 INDEX 1 viii
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    can also disable APIPA using the control panel from more information refer to Chapter 4 of the printer User's Guide. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address on your printer. 3 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 1 - 1 UNIX PRINTING
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    , pay particular attention to the service names, BINARY_P1 and TEXT_P1. TCP/IP Brother print servers appear to the network as a UNIX host computer with a unique IP address running the lpd (line printer daemon) protocol. As a result, any host computer that supports the Berkeley remote LPR command
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    Brother print server (the name that appears on the printer settings page), however, it is good practice to make the names the same. Some operating systems, such as HP-UX, do not accept the "_" character in the default graphics. Choose one of the available services (a service name will be used in step
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    UNIX. SCO UNIX users should follow these steps, but should also refer to the SCO UNIX Configuration section. Users of RS/6000 AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris a Brother print server with a node name (rm) of BRN_310107 and a service name (rp) of TEXT_P1 printing text files to a Brother printer through
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    Users of Berkeley-compatible UNIX systems can use the lpc command to obtain the printer you have an SCO UNIX system. If you have an HP-UX system, IBM RS/6000 AIX computer, or Sun these systems generally use a printer setup program to define the service name (remote printer), the print server name
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    IP address of the printer, or the name from the hosts file which corresponds to the IP address of the printer. 5 The Remote Queue name is the service name that the printer will use when Configuration Using CUPS Many Linux systems support Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). UNIX PRINTING 1 - 6
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    on BSD system. 9 You may accept the default values for the remaining items. 10 Click OK to configure the printer. You should now be able to print using the lp-d command with the printer name. If you are using the HP distributed print service, the configuration procedure is slightly different because
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    . 6 Enter the following Remote Printer Settings: Name of queue (user selectable) Host name of Remote Printer (print server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or use the print server IP address) Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1
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    etc/hosts file or use the print server IP address) ■ Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1). ■ Name of device to add (user selectable; for example lp0). Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration Sun Solaris 2.x uses the lpsystem and lpadmin programs
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    BSD (the default setting), and click Add. Note that we recommend that you use the /etc/hosts file for the printer name rather than NIS or other name services. Also note that due to a bug in the Sun lpd implementation on Solaris 2.4 and earlier releases, you may experience problems printing very long
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    the Printer name. 5 Enter anything as the Comment, and Class name. 6 For the Use printer support the FTP protocol. Earlier SCO Unix systems are often configured to print using the FTP protocol. IBM AS/400 To use a Brother print server with an IBM AS/400 running IBM's TCP/ IP gateways services
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    >) INTNETADR('') TEXT ('') where is the new AS/400 print queue name, is the print server service name (BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1) is the OS/400 printer driver name (*HP4 is recommended if in doubt), and is the IP address of the print
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    looks like a remote UNIX host computer running the lpd line printer daemon). If you have not created a spool directory for the Brother print server on your UNIX host computer, you will need to do so now (the printer setup utilities in HP-UX, AIX, Solaris 2.xx, and other systems will automatically
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    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 configure the IP address of the printer. UNIX PRINTING 1 - 14
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    DHCP server allocate an IP address to the printer. 1 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 2 Windows NT®4.0 users must install the "Microsoft TCP/IP printing" protocol (available through the control panel applet). 3 Windows® 2000/XP users can print using TCP/IP using the standard
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    installs the TCP/IP protocol. Refer to the appropriate section in this chapter for more information. Windows® 2000/XP Printing (Printer Driver not yet installed) By default, Windows® 2000/XP systems install with all the necessary software required for you to be able to print. This chapter
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    then select the Have Disk option to browse to the CD-ROM. You can also click the Windows Update button to connect directly to Microsoft's support Web site to download printer drivers. 12 When the driver is installed, click the Next button. 13 Specify a name and click the Next button. 14 Now specify
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    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 Click the Close button. The Windows NT®4.0 system will review protocol bindings and then you
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    enter the name of the print server. As the print server supports TCP/IP and NetBIOS names, you can also enter the NetBIOS name of the print server. The NetBIOS name can be seen in the printer settings page. By default the NetBIOS name will appear as BRN_xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last
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    ® 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 the Add Printer Wizard. 3 Select My Computer (not Network Printer) and click on Next. 4 Select the Brother LPR Port (the
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    Printer Ports dialog, highlight Brother LPR Port. Click the New Port button and enter the port name. The default port name is BLP1. If you have already used this name, you will get an error (s) setting of the printer driver. LAN Server, OS/2 Warp Server Configuration Brother print servers will work
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    This problem is fixed via a patch available from IBM. You will get the Settings window. Enter the following: LPD server LPD printer Host name User The Brother print server name (from the HOSTS file) or its IP address. For most applications, use the Brother print server 'binary' service BINARY_P1
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    of printer as defined previously Leave blank unless you want to limit the number of users printer. Note that if you selected a binary service as the LPD printer name, the lines will be staggered; don't worry about this because normal DOS, Windows®, and OS/2 applications will print OK. 9 The Brother
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    11 This will make the printer appear to the software as a printer that is directly connected to the parallel port of the workstation. Other Sources of Information Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address of the printer. TCP/IP PRINTING 2 - 10
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    allow a Windows® PC to be configured as a client workstation in a file server based network environment. For smaller networks, Windows® 95/98 the printer. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address on your printer. 3 The default password for Brother
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    that you can use HP utilities to manage and to print to your Brother printer. Driver Deployment Wizard This installer includes the Windows® PCL driver and Brother network port driver (LPR and NetBIOS). If the administrator then installs the printer driver and port driver using this software, he
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    installed the driver from the printer's CD-ROM Installer and you selected "Brother Peer-to-Peer Network Printer" during the installation then you do not need to install the Brother Network Print Software again. 1 Start the CD-ROM installation menu program according to the Quick Setup Guide. 2 Select
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    Next when you get the Add Printer Wizard window. 4 Select Local Printer when you are asked how the printers are connected to your computer, and then push Next. 5 Select the correct driver. Click Next when you are done. 6 If you have selected a printer driver that is already being used, you have
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    port that you have just created in the Print to the following port setting of the printer driver. 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
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    or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the printer. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address on your printer. 3 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 4 The default domain name of the print server is WORKGROUP, to change it
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    find that your Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 systems may receive "Printer is busy" error messages when more than one person attempts to access the printer. In this instance Brother has provided the "Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor" software which allows users to continue spooling print
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    from the network neighborhood even if the printer is switched off. This is a you are connected to the print server, enter the default password access in response to the # prompt. Type in , look in the Identification tab in your Windows® 95/98/Me and Windows NT®4.0 network applet. You can also use
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    protocols refer to your Windows® documentation. If you are using the TCP/IP protocol, the proper IP address should be defined on both the Brother print server and your client PC. Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor If you already installed the driver from the printers CD-ROM Installer and
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    address), and ServiceName is the service name for NetBIOS of the print server. By default it is BINARY_P1. For example: \\BRN_310107\BINARY_P1 You can find the NetBIOS name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print
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    computer (Windows® XP) when you are asked how the printer is connected to your computer, and then push Next. 5 Select the Brother NetBIOS Port (the port name you assigned in step 6 of the "Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor" section and press Next. 6 Select the correct driver. Click Next
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    8 Enter any desired name for the Brother printer and press Next. For example, you could call the printer "Networked Brother Printer". 9 Select Not Shared or Shared and Share Name and press Next. 10 Windows® will now ask you if you wish to print out a test page, select Yes and then select Finish. You
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    Windows NT®4.0 / Windows® 2000/XP 2 Click on the Ports tab and push 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 get an error message if you try to use
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    Ethernet address) and ServiceName is the service name of the print server (BINARY_P1 by default). For example: NET USE LPT2: \\BRN_310107\BINARY_P1 You can find the NetBIOS name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print
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    your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the printer. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address on your printer. 3 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 4 Windows® 2000/XP users can print using TCP/IP using the standard Network Printing
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    point of view. The user can use the Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 Print Manager to create a printer that uses this port along with a standard Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 compatible printer. Any Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 applications program can
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    download the E-mail message from the e-mail server. It then decodes the attachment and prints it out on the printer. If an E-mail is received that has not been configured to use the BIP virtual port driver, the printer will print the E-mail out as a text document. Brother password for the Brother
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    six digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address)). You will be prompted for a password; the default password is access. You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page on your print
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    , you will be prompted for a password. The default password is "access". 3 Select the Configure POP3/SMTP option and enter the information as described above. Refer to "Brother Internet Print: Using a Web Browser the segments of the message to arrive. 5 - 5 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS®
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    remote print server. As an alternative to BRAdmin, you can use the print server remote console to configure the print server. The console can be accessed via TELNET. When you access the print server using these utilities, you will be asked for a password. The default password is access. 1 When you
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    Brother Internet Print: Installing the BIP Software on Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 To install the BIP software on a Windows® 95/98/2000/XP and Windows Brother Internet Print software to break down E-mail Print jobs into smaller sections to prevent a mail file size limitation problem
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    and Windows® 2000/XP users> 14 Select Local Printer when you are asked how the printer is connected to your computer, and then push Next. 15 Select the desired model of the remote printer (for example, Brother HL-series). If necessary, click Have Disk to load the driver
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    press Next. 15 Select the Brother Internet port (BIP...) which you selected in step 6 and press Next. 16 Select the desired model of the remote printer (for example, Brother HL-series). If necessary, click Have Disk to load the driver from the CD-ROM
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    Other radio button (Windows® 95/ 98/Me only) and then Brother Internet Port. Click OK (New Port on Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP) and it will Windows® 2000/XP IPP Printing Use the following instructions if you wish to use the IPP printing capabilities of Windows® 2000/XP. 1 Run the Add Printer
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    you specified. If the printer driver has already been installed: If the appropriate printer driver is already installed on your PC, Windows® 2000/XP will automatically use that driver for use. In this case, you will simply be asked if you wish to make the driver the default driver, after which the
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    and how to configure a Windows® 2000/95/98/Me System. 2 Visit Microsoft's web site for the "Microsoft Internet Print Services" software for Windows® 95/98/Me. 3 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address of the printer. CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR
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    is disabled, the default IP address of a Brother print server is 192.0.0.192. To change it, use the printer control panel (if applicable), the BRAdmin Professional, Web BRAdmin software or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the printer. 2 The default password for Brother print servers is
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    queue that the print server can service. Users send their print requests to the file server's print queue, and the jobs are then spooled (either directly, or in the case of remote printer mode, via an intermediate print server) to the appropriate Brother print server. The system administrator can
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    , see the Other Sources of Information section at the end of this chapter. NDPS Manager This creates a NDPS manager that interacts with services running at the server and manages an unlimited number of printer agents. You have to create an NDPS manager within an NDS tree before creating server-based
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    . 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 the Resource Management Service is enabled. 2 Open the Broker Object's main window in NetWare Administrator
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    to use. There are four possible options. Select the LPR over IP option. 7 Enter the relevant details of the printer, and Brother recommends typing Binary_P1 for the printer name. Click finish and wait. Select the printer drivers for the client operating systems. Follow the steps below to create
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    four possible options. Select the LPR over IP option. 7 Enter the relevant details of the printer and Brother recommends typing Binary_P1 for the printer name. Click finish and wait. Select the printer drivers for the client operating systems. You are now ready to print. Configuring NetWare 3 and
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    settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to printer the settings page on your print server. 4 Select the print server that you wish to configure and double click it. You will be asked for a password. The default password is access. 5 Select the NetWare tab. If necessary
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    settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page on your print server. 4 Select the printer that you wish to configure and double click it. You will be asked for a password. The default password is access. 5 Select the NetWare tab. a If it is not
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    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 information in this Window. f Click on the Close button. Your Brother print server will now log into the appropriate NetWare server
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    default service name, unless you changed the name). You can find the current service name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page on your print server. Important: Do not assign a password
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    the appropriate Brother print server. You will be prompted for a password, the default password is access. Now select the NetWare tab. 20 Select Queue Server as the operating mode. The same service assigned by NetWare server name cannot be used for both queue server mode and remote printer mode. If
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    a Brother print server for remote printer mode printer, as you will use this later, then click OK. 7 Select the desired Context that will contain the default print queue, and then click on Object and Create to get New Object menu. 8 Select Print Queue and then OK. Make sure that Directory Service
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    be prompted for a password, the default password is access. 15 Now select the NetWare tab. 16 Select Remote Printer as the Operating Mode, select the name of your PSERVER NLM as the print server Name and select the number of the printer from step 6 as the Printer Number. The same service assigned by
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    bindery mode). 2 Execute BRCONFIG from the Windows® menu. 3 Select the corresponding server name from the list of print servers. 4 When you get the message that the print server is connected, type the default password access in response to the # prompt (the password will not echo), and then press
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    should be short and convenient for users to remember. 12 Make sure that server candidates and select the print server service name from step 9, Press ENTER. 15 You may either turn the printer off and on again or you rescan for file servers. Configuring the Brother Print Server (Queue Server Mode in
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    to something else). You can find the NetWare print service name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page on your print server. Important: Do not assign a password to the print server or it will not log
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    the printer you entered in Step 12. 20 Press ESCAPE several times to return to DOS. 21 Execute the BRCONFIG from the Windows® menu. Select the print server from the list of print servers. When you get the message that the print server is connected, press the ENTER key and type the default password
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    If you want to enable remote printer capabilities on a service other than the default NetWare service, you must define new services that are enabled for NetWare and for the desired port. Refer to Appendix in this manual for information on how to do this. Configuring the Brother Print Server (Remote
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    ; 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 with NDS support on NetWare 4.1x systems: 6 a Select print servers from the PCONSOLE menu and then select the print server name of the PSERVER NLM
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    changes. f Push ESCAPE and select Queues Serviced by Printer. g Highlight the printer name that you just configured and press ENTER default priority). i Press ESCAPE several times to exit PCONSOLE. Assigning the Remote printer name and number using BRCONFIG 7 a Execute the BRCONFIG from the Windows
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    number you selected during the PCONSOLE configuration in the previous steps). ■ Service is the name of the service assigned by NetWare print server name (where the default services are BRN_xxxxxx_P1 for the Brother printer, where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address
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    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. NOVELL NETWARE PRINTING 6 - 22
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    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). This allows Macintosh® users to print at the same time as all other Ethernet network using the AppleTalk
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    . Click on BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT, then on Service Name. Enter the new name that you wish to appear in Chooser. Then click on Submit. 3 Mac OS® 8.6 or later supports TCP/IP printing. 4 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 5 To print a printer settings page, press the Set button
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    8 printer driver (earlier versions of the LaserWriter drivers may crash or cause PostScript errors on large networks). If you do not have the LaserWriter 8 driver you must install it. Consult your Macintosh® documentation for instructions on how to do this. Before you try to use the Brother print
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    Brother print server's AppleTalk service name (default is BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT, where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address) should appear in the Chooser. You can find the service name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide
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    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. 7 - 5 PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH®
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    TCP/IP address. To print the print settings page, refer to the Quick Setup Guide. ■ If you do not specify the appropriate queue name, the printer will not print correctly. Maker sure that the queue name input here matches with the printer's service name. 7 Click OK. PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH® 7 - 6
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    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 printer that you just created will be used
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    . Select your language and follow the on-screen instructions for Install Software. How to Select the Print Server (AppleTalk/ EtherTalk) After installing the PPD, use the following steps to select the printer driver: 1 Turn the power of the printer ON. 2 From the Go menu, select Applications. 3 Open
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    you to confirm the TCP/IP address. Please refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page. 8 If you are not using the default Queue enter the Queue name you are using. 9 From the Printer Model pull-down list select your model. 10 Click Add and the
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    your network. You do not need to manually configure any IP address or network strings within the printer as the printer will automatically configure itself. Please note that Brother recommends that you use Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or later version. How to Select the Printer Driver 1 From the Go menu, select
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    using the format: http://ip_address where ip_address is the address of the printer. Other Sources of Information 1 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address of the printer. 2 Refer to chapter 9 for more information on web-based management. 7 - 11 PRINTING
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    on other operating systems (such as Windows® 3.x) with the addition of vendor-supplied software that supports the Hewlett-Packard JetDirect card. Quick Tips: 1 One way to print the details of all network settings is to print a settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to
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    not require a re-boot. Windows® 2000 Printer Setup 1 Log into Windows® 2000 with administrative privileges. From the Start menu, select Settings and then Printers. 2 Select Add Printer (If you have already installed a Brother printer driver, double click the printer driver that you wish to configure
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    Wizard screen. 15 Click Finish. Windows NT®4.0 Printer Setup Log into Windows NT®4.0 with administrative privileges. From the Start menu, select Settings and then Printers. 1 Select Add Printer (If you have already installed a Brother printer driver, double click the printer driver that you wish to
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    out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information the correct driver. Click Next. 10 Give a name to the printer. If desired, select the printer as the default. 11 Select such software will support the Brother print servers. Follow the vendor's instructions to install the
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    Brother does not recommend using the DLC protocol with Windows® for Workgroups 3.11 in a peer-to-peer configuration if the printer will be heavily used. This is because jobs may be rejected due to print spooler timeouts. The best solution in these situations is to set
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    ), the BRAdmin Professional, Web BRAdmin software or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the printer. 2 Refer to chapter 10 of this User's Guide to learn how to configure the IP address on your printer. 3 The default password for Brother print servers is access. 9 - 1 WEB BASED MANAGEMENT
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    Microsoft® Windows® domain/Workgroup environment). Enter the DNS name of the printer if connecting to a network that uses the DNS protocol. 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
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    protocol is disabled, the default IP address of a Brother print server is 192 printer has an LCD panel). ■ BRAdmin application (for Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT®4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP, using the IPX/SPX or TCP/IP protocols). ■ DHCP, APIPA, Reverse ARP (rarp) or BOOTP. ■ The ARP command. ■ Brother
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    use BRAdmin Professional version 1.59 or later. Start the BRAdmin application (from Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT®4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP). The BRAdmin application can use the IPX/SPX or TCP/IP protocols to communicate with the Brother print server. If you wish to use the TCP/IP protocol to manage
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    by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page on your print server. 3 Select the print server that you wish to configure and double click it. You will be asked for a password. The default password is access. 4 Select the
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    of the main window. 2 Select the Device menu and choose the Search Active Devices. If the print server is set to its factory default settings, it will node name and MAC address by printing out the printer settings page. Refer to the Quick Setup Guide for information on how to print the settings page
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    Windows® 2000 or Novell NetWare network) the print server will automatically obtains its IP address from DHCP server and register its name with any RFC 1001 and 1002-compliant dynamic name services change the BOOT METHOD, use the printer's control panel (for those printers that have a LCD panel),
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    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 TCP/IP installed as well as Unix systems. To use
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    security reasons, once you have successfully configured the IP address of a Brother print server using the ARP command, you cannot use the ARP command Browser, TELNET (using the SET IP ADDRESS command) the printer's control panel or factory reset the print server (which will then allow you to use
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    Using RARP to Configure the IP Address The Brother print server's IP address can be configured using the AT&T UNIX-based systems, type: ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd The Brother print server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when the printer is powered on. TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 10 - 8
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    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 (it should appear in the /etc/services file on your
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    server. Execute BRCONFIG from the Windows® menu. Select the corresponding server name from the list of print servers. When you get the message that the print server is connected, type the default password access in response to the "#" prompt. You will be prompted for a user name. Enter anything in
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    . If you are using the TELNET, you will be expected to enter the password of the print server. Press RETURN and enter the default password of access in response to the "#" prompt (it will not echo). You will be prompted for a user name. Enter anything in response to this prompt. 10 - 11 TCP/IP
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    subnet mask to use). For example: Local> SET IP SUBNET 255.255.255.0 If you do not have any subnets, use one of the following default subnet masks: 255.255.255.0 for class C networks 255.255.0.0 for class B networks 255.0.0.0 for class A networks The leftmost group of digits in your IP
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    Guide. If the test fails, check: a If the LED is not blinking after connected to the network, then the network firmware settings may be corrupted. Please refer to Step 3. b In this event, try to restore the factory default settings of the print server. To reset the print server, turn off the printer
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    following steps are successful, there is almost certainly a hardware or network problem! a If you are using TCP/IP: Try pinging the print in the menu, then the Brother print server is visible to the network, proceed to the Novel NetWare Installation Troubleshooting Section. Otherwise, go to step
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    check the following: a Make sure the printer is powered on and on-line. is any LED activity. Brother print servers have two LEDs on the back panel of the printer. The upper side LED shows therefore, such a bridge must be configured to allow Brother print server addresses. Likewise, a router can be
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    the latest printer driver installed on your computer. The latest Brother printer drivers can be downloaded from http://solutions.brother.com 2 Check the individual protocol troubleshooting sections in this chapter for additional causes of intermittent printer problems. TCP/IP Troubleshooting If you
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    small error Window Print tool program that is included with Linux may not properly configure the etc/printcap file for lpd operation, then you might also edit the etc/printcap file and change the following line in the entry for the printer. if :lp = /dev/null: \ then to :lp = :\ TROUBLESHOOTING
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    of the local print queue). 5 Make sure that the lpr/lpd remote line printer service are running on the host computer (refer to your host computer documentation for information on how to do this). 6 If you are having trouble printing more than one job at a time, try increasing the IP timeout using
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    /98/Me Peer to Peer Print (LPR) Troubleshooting If you are having trouble printing on a Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-toPeer network (LPR method), check the following: 1 Make sure that the Brother LPR Port driver is correctly installed and configured according to the Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-toPeer chapters
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    add the HP JetAdmin service. Windows® 95/98/Me and Windows NT®4.0 Peer-toPeer Print (NetBIOS) Troubleshooting If you are having trouble printing on a Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT®4.0 or later Peer-to-Peer network (NetBIOS), check the following: 1 Make sure that the Brother NetBIOS Port driver is
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    a user at the remote site who can receive mail via the POP3 server. If this does not work, there may be an E-mail configuration problem on do this, select the property dialog of the Brother Internet Print Port. Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP IPP Troubleshooting Want to use a different Port number other
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    the Brother print server. Windows® 95/98/Me clients not able to get the driver from a Windows® 2000/XP system. You must be using version 4.0 or later of Internet Explorer and the Microsoft Internet Print Services software must be installed on your client computers. Novell NetWare Troubleshooting If
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    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 statement to a higher value (at least 50 seconds for Windows®). AppleTalk Troubleshooting If you cannot print from an AppleTalk for Macintosh® computer
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    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. 4 Make sure that you
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    following methods. • Brother BRAdmin application for Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT®4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP • Brother Web BRAdmin application for printer. It can also be used to upgrade the firmware of the print server. Web BRAdmin The Web BRAdmin software is designed to manage all LAN/WAN Brother
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    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 on UNIX, Windows NT®4.0, or most other TCP/IP
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    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 available services): Enter HELP at the command prompt for a list of supported commands. Service (Example) BINARY_P1
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    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.brother.com/ Some software versions that we provide will automatically factory reset your print server parameters. We try
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    password for the print server. The default password for the print server is access. 3 TFTP PUT from this host Use this method if you have TCP/IP already installed on your PC. BRAdmin will use the TFTP protocol to send the new firmware make sure that the TFTP service is running on your Unix server.
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    indicated alternately on the LCD. After the firmware update is completed, the printer will re-start automatically. DO NOT TURN OFF THE PRINTER printer off and then on again, to retry the download. If you encounter problems upgrading the firmware and you find that the network portion of the printer
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    to upgrade the firmware of the print server or printer (if supported). The following example assumes that the print server password is "cambridge" D:\>ftp ftp> open 220.0.250.200 Connected to 220.0.250.200. 220 FTP print service:V-1.05/Use the network password for the ID if updating. User (220.0.250
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    Reloading Using the FTP Protocol from a Web Browser Please visit the Brother Solutions Web site at http://solutions.brother.com for more information on upgrading the print server using a web browser. APPENDIX A - 8
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    BIP 5-1 BOOTP 1-2, 10-9 BRAdmin 10-2 Brother LPR port 3-4 Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor 4-2 4-4 Brother Peer to Peer Print . 3-4 Browser 9-2 FTP 1-2, 1-11, A-4, A-7 H hosts 3-3 HP distributed print service 1-7 HP JetDirect 3-2 HP-UX 1-3 HP/UX 1-7 HTTP 9-1, 10-1, A-1 Hyper Text Transfer
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    Server ...... 2-1, 2-7 OS/400 1-11 P password 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1 PCONSOLE 6-6 Peer to Peer Printing ......... 3-1 Peer-to-Peer 11-8 ping 11-2 POP3 5-3, 5-6 PPD 7-3, 7-8 PRINTCAP 1-2 printcap 1-4 Printer Agent 6-5 PSERVER NLM 6-12 R RARP 10-8 reloading firmware A-5 RFC 1001 and 1002
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    5-1, ........6-4, 8-1, 10-1, 11-9, 11-10 Windows 2000 printing 2-2, 2-4 Windows 95/98/Me .... 2-2, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 6-4, 10-1, 11-2, 11-7 Windows NT 4.0 . 2-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, .........6-4, 8-1, 10-1, 11-2 Windows NT 4.0 printing ... 2-4 Windows XP 2-1, 4-1, 5-1, 10-1, 11-9 workgroup 4-2 I - 3 INDEX
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Multi-Protocol Print Server
Network User's Guide
Version 2
Please read this manual thoroughly before using the printer. You can print or view
this manual from the CD-ROM at any time, please keep the CD-ROM in a
convenient place for quick and easy reference at all times.
The Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com
) is your one stop
resource for all your printer needs. Download the latest drivers and utilities for your
printers, read the FAQs and troubleshooting tips.
Some Brother printer models are network ready as standard. Other Brother
printers can be upgraded with an optional Network Print Server.