Brother Print Server Nc 8100h User Guide

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Configuring DLC on Windows® NT®/2000 
 
To use DLC on Windows® NT®, you must first install the DLC protocol. 
 
1. Log into Windows
® NT® with administrative privileges. Go to the NT 
Control Panel and double click on the Network icon. Windows® 2000 
users select the properties of the Local Area Connection. 
2. On Windows
® NT® 3.5x systems, select Add Software. On Windows® 
NT® 4.0 systems, click on the Protocol tab, and click Add. Windows® 
2000 users click the Install button from the General Tab. 
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® 
CD-ROM. If you have a non-Intel platform, specify the correct directory 
on your Windows
® NT® CD-ROM. Click Continue (for 3.5x systems) or 
Close (for 4.0 systems). 
4.  Reboot your system to make the change take effect. Windows
® 2000 
should not require a re-boot. 
  
						

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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 and then select 
Printers/Properties, select the Ports tab, Click on “Add Port” and 
continue from Step 6 (ignoring steps 11-14) about installing the correct 
driver). 
3. Click Next. 
4.  Select Local Printer and make sure that “Automatically detect and install 
my Plug and Play printer” is not checked. 
5. Click Next 
6. Select the “Create a new port:” option and highlight “Hewlett-Packard 
Network Port” 
7. Click Next 
8.  A list of available Print / Fax server MAC addresses (Ethernet addresses) 
appears in the larger box under Card Address. Select the address of the 
desired Print / Fax server (you can see the Ethernet address on the printer 
configuration page) 
 
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the printer 
configuration page. Refer to the NC-8100h Quick Network Setup Guide for 
information on how to print the configuration page on your Print / Fax server. 
 
9.  The selected Print / Fax 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 the correct driver click Next. 
12.  Give a name to the printer and specify if you wish to be able to print 
from DOS application. Then click Next 
13.  Specify the share name (if you are going to share the printer). 
14.  Enter the Location and Comment information and click Next until you 
see the “Completing the Add Printer Wizard” screen. 
15. Click Finish 
 
 
  
						

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Windows® NT® 4.0 Printer Setup 
 
Log into Windows® NT® 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 configure and then select 
Printers/Properties, select the Ports tab and continue from Step 4 
(ignoring steps 9-11) about installing the correct driver). 
2.  Select My Computer and then click Next. 
3.  Select Add a Port. 
4.  Select Hewlett-Packard Network Port and then click New Port. 
5.  A list of available Print / Fax server MAC addresses (Ethernet addresses) 
appears in the larger box under Card Address. Select the address of the 
desired Print / Fax server (you can see the Ethernet address on the printer 
configuration page) 
 
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the printer 
configuration page. Refer to the Quick Network Setup Guide for information on 
how to print the configuration page on your Print / Fax server. 
 
6.  The selected Print / Fax 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 name you selected in the above step will appear as a checked port in 
the list of available ports. Click Next. 
9.  Select the correct driver click Next. 
10.  Give a name to the printer. If desired, select the printer as the default. 
11.  Select Shared or Not Shared. If shared, specify the share name and 
operating systems that will be printing to it. 
12.  Select whether or not you want a test page, and then select Finish. 
  
						

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Windows® NT® 3.5x Setup 
 
1.  From the Windows® NT® Main group, double click on the Print Manager 
icon. 
2.  Select Printer from the menu bar and click on Create Printer. 
3.  Enter any desired name for the printer in the Printer Name box. 
4.  Select the printer model in the Driver menu. 
5.  Choose Other (or Network Printer for V3.1 systems) from the Print to 
menu. 
6.  Click on Hewlett-Packard Network Port. 
7.  Type in your desired name for the port (this name must not be an 
existing port or DOS device, such as LPT1).  
8.  The MAC addresses (Ethernet addresses) of available Print / Fax servers 
will appear in the Card Address menu. Select the desired address (You 
can see the Ethernet address on the printer configuration page) 
 
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the printer 
configuration page. Refer to the User’s Guide for information on how to print the 
configuration page on your Print / Fax server. 
 
9. Click OK. 
10.  If you want to share the printer, click Share the Printer on the Network. 
11. Click OK. 
12.  If necessary, select the appropriate printer options and then click OK. 
 
Configuring DLC on Other Systems 
 
To use DLC on other network systems, you will generally need vendor-supplied 
software. Typically such software will support the Brother Print / Fax servers. 
Follow the vendors instructions to install the DLC protocol on your system. 
 
Once the protocol is installed, create a network port in the same way that you did 
for Windows
® NT® in the previous sections. The MAC address (Ethernet address) 
of the Print / Fax server should automatically appear during the configuration 
process. 
 
The final step is to create a printer using the normal operating system printer 
setup method. The only difference is that instead of connecting the printer to the 
LPT1 parallel port, you point it to the network port you just created. 
 
Brother does not recommend using the DLC protocol with Windows
® for 
Workgroup 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 up one PC as a server for handling network 
print jobs. All of the other PCs send their print jobs to the server PC using 
NetBEUI or TCP/IP, and the server PC then uses DLC to send the print jobs to 
the Brother Print / Fax server.   
						

							CHAPTER 12 UNIX PRINTING 
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12 
121CHAPTER TWELVE 
 
Unix Printing 
 
 
Printing from Unix/Linux using 
TCP/IP 
 
Overview 
 
Brother Print / Fax 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 shared on a 
UNIX Ethernet network.  
 
The Linux operating system uses the same setup procedures as standard Berkeley 
UNIX systems. Refer to this chapter for a typical GUI based Linux installation. 
 
Quick Tips: 
 
1.  The default IP address of Brother Print / Fax servers is 192.0.0.192. To 
change it, use the print front panel (if applicable), the BRAdmin 
application or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the 
FAX/MFC. 
2.  Refer to ‘chapter 1’ of this user guide to learn how to configure the IP 
address on your FAX/MFC. 
3.  The default password for Brother Print / Fax servers is access.  
4.  The default name for a Brother Print / Fax server is usually 
BRN_xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address 
of the Print / Fax server).  
5.  When configuring the PRINTCAP file, pay particular attention to the 
service names, BINARY_P1 and TEXT_P1 
 
  
						

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TCP/IP 
 
Brother Print / Fax 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 can spool 
jobs to Brother Print / Fax servers without the need for any special software on 
the host computer. For special applications, raw TCP ports are also available. 
 
The Brother NC-8100h Print / Fax server also support the FTP protocol. This 
protocol can be used to send print jobs from Unix systems. 
 
The Brother Print / Fax server is pre-configured to run on a TCP/IP network with 
a minimum of setup. The only mandatory configuration the Print / Fax server is 
the allocation of an IP address, which can be either automatically assigned using 
DHCP, BOOTP etc., or manually assigned using the ARP command, BRAdmin, 
the FAX/MFC’s front panel , etc. 
 
For setting the IP address of the Print / Fax server, refer  to chapter 1 of this user 
guide. 
  
						

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General TCP/IP UNIX Host Configuration 
 
The configuration process for most UNIX systems is described in the following 
steps. As this process varies, we recommend that you refer to your system 
documentation (or man pages) for additional information. 
 
1.  Configure the /etc/hosts file on each UNIX host that needs to 
communicate with the Print / Fax server. Use your favorite editor to add 
an entry to the /etc/hosts file containing the IP address and node name of 
the device. For example: 
 
192.189.207.3 BRN_310107 
 
The actual format of the entry may vary depending on your system, check your 
system documentation and also note the format of other entries in the etc/hosts 
file. 
 
The node name in this file does not necessarily need to be the same as the one 
that is actually configured into the Brother Print / Fax server (the name that 
appears on the printer configuration 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 name, for these systems you must use a different 
name).  
 
In any case, the node name in the /etc/hosts file must match the node name in the 
/etc/printcap file. 
 
Some systems such as HP/UX and AIX allow you to enter the IP address as the 
host name when setting up the print queue. If this is the case, you do not need to 
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2.  Choose which Print / Fax server service you want to use. There are 
several types of services available on Brother Print / Fax servers. Binary 
services pass data through unmodified and are therefore required for 
PCL or PostScript rasterized graphics printouts. Text services add a 
carriage return at the end of each line for proper formatting of UNIX text 
files (which end in linefeed and do not have carriage returns). The text 
service can also be used for non-rasterized graphics, such as ASCII 
PostScript graphics or many types of PCL graphics. 
 
Choose one of the available services (a service name will be used in step 
3): 
 
BINARY_P1 Binary data 
TEXT_P1  Text data (CR added) 
 
You may set up multiple print queues on your UNIX host computer for 
the same Print / Fax server, each one with a different service name (for 
example, one queue for binary graphics jobs and one for text jobs).  
 
3.  Configure the /etc/printcap file on each host computer to specify the 
local print queue, the Print / Fax server name (also called remote 
machine or rm), and the Print / Fax server service name (also called 
remote printer, remote queue, or rp), and the spool directory. 
 
This step applies to the majority of UNIX systems, including Linux, Sun OS (but 
not Solaris 2.xx), Silicon Graphics (lpr/lpd option required), DEC ULTRIX, DEC 
OSF/1, and Digital 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 2.xx, and other systems that do not use the printcap file 
should skip to section 3-a. SCO user’s should also skip to section 3a (SCO uses 
the printcap file, but this file is automatically configured via the rlpconf 
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An example of a typical printcap file: 
 
laser1|Printer on Floor 1: 
:lp=: 
:rm=BRN_310107: 
:rp=TEXT_P1: 
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/laser1: 
 
Make sure this information is added to the end of the printcap file. Also make 
sure that the last character in the printcap file is a colon : 
 
This will create a queue named laser1 on the host computer that communicates to 
a Brother Print / Fax 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 spool 
directory /usr/spool/lpd/laser1. If you are printing binary graphics files, 
you would use the service BINARY_P1 instead of TEXT_P1.  
 
The rm and rp options are not available on some UNIX systems, so if necessary 
check your documentation (or man pages) to determine the equivalent options. 
 
Users of Berkeley-compatible UNIX systems can use the lpc command to obtain 
the printer status: 
 
%lpc status 
laser1: 
queuing is enabled 
printing is enabled 
no entries 
no daemon present 
 
Users of AT&T-compatible UNIX systems can generally use the lpstat or rlpstat 
commands to obtain similar status information. Because this procedure varies 
from system to system, refer to your system documentation for the exact usage.  
 
4.  Skip this section if you have completed Step 3, unless you have an SCO 
UNIX system. 
 
If you have an HP/UX system, IBM RS/6000 AIX computer, or Sun Solaris 
2.xx, there is no printcap file. This is also true for some other AT&T-based 
UNIX systems, as well as many VMS-based TCP/IP software packages (for 
example, UCX, TGV Multinet, etc.). On SCO systems, there is a printcap 
file, but it is automatically configured by the rlpconf command. Most of 
these systems generally use a printer setup program to define the service 
name (remote printer), the Print / Fax server name (remote machine) or IP 
address, and the local queue name (spool directory).  Refer to the appropriate 
section depending on your version of Unix.  
						

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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 button. 
2.  You will now be asked to specify which Printer type you are using, 
select the Remote Unix (lpd) Queue option and click OK. 
3.  You must now specify the remote host name, remote queue name and 
the input filter to use. 
4.  The Remote Host name is the 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 processing the data. Generally we recommend that you use the 
name BINARY_P1, however, if you are planning to send text 
documents that do not have a carriage return and a line feed, then use 
TEXT_P1.   
6.  Select the appropriate Input Filter from the list of available printers on 
your particular build of Linux. 
 
In order to make your settings work, select the Restart lpd option. As soon as 
the lpd server restarts, you will be able to send printed documents from your 
server.