Brother Print Server Nc 8100h User Guide

							CHAPTER 1 TCP/IP CONFIGURATION 
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Using RARP to Configure the IP Address  
  
Brother Print / Fax server 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 to the 
following: 
  
00:80:77:31:01:07   BRN_310107 
  
Where the first entry is the Ethernet address of the Print / Fax server and the 
second entry is the name of the Print / Fax server (the name must be the same as 
the one you put in the /etc/hosts file). 
  
If the rarp daemon is not already running, start it (depending on the system the 
command can be rarpd, rarpd -a, in.rarpd -a or something else; type man rarpd or 
refer to your system documentation for additional information). To verify that the 
rarp daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX-based system, type the following 
command: 
  
ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep rarpd 
  
For AT&T UNIX-based systems, type: 
  
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd 
  
The Brother Print / Fax server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when 
it is powered on.   
						

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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 (it 
should appear in the /etc/services file on your host as a real service; type man 
bootpd or refer to your system documentation for information). BOOTP is 
usually started up via the /etc/inetd.conf file, so you may need to enable it by 
removing the # in front of the bootp entry in that file. For example, a typical 
bootp entry in the /etc/inetd.conf file would be: 
  
#bootp dgram udp wait /usr/etc/bootpd bootpd -i 
 
Depending on the system, this entry might be called bootps instead of bootp. 
  
In order to enable BOOTP, simply use an editor to delete the # (if there is no 
#, then BOOTP is already enabled). Then edit the BOOTP configuration file 
(usually /etc/bootptab) and enter the name, network type (1 for Ethernet), 
Ethernet address and the IP address, subnet mask and gateway of the Print / Fax 
server. Unfortunately, the exact format for doing this is not standardized, so you 
will need to refer to your system documentation to determine how to enter this 
information (many UNIX systems also have template examples in the bootptab 
file that you can use for reference). Some examples of  typical /etc/bootptab 
entries include: 
  
BRN_310107 1  00:80:77:31:01:07 192.189.207.3 
  
and: 
  
BRN_310107:ht=ethernet:ha=008077310107: 
ip=192.189.207.3: 
  
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 configuration file. 
  
As with rarp, the Print / Fax server will load its IP address from the BOOTP 
server when the FAX/MFC is powered on.  
						

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Changing the IP Address settings with the 
TELNET Console 
 
You can also use the TELNET command to change the IP address. 
Using TELNET is effective way, when you change the IP address. But a valid IP 
address must already be programmed into the Print / Fax server. 
 
 
If you are using the TELNET, you will be expected to enter the password of the 
Print / Fax 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. 
 
You will then get the Local> prompt. Type SET IP ADDRESS ipaddress, where 
ipaddress is the desired IP address you wish to assign to the Print / Fax server 
(check with your network manager for the IP address to use). For example: 
 
Local> SET IP ADDRESS 192.189.207.3 
 
You will now need to set the subnet mask by typing SET IP SUBNET subnet 
mask, where subnet mask is the desired subnet mask you wish to assign to the 
Print / Fax server (check with your network manager for the 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 address can identify the type of network 
you have. The value of this group ranges from 192 through 255 for Class C 
networks (e.g., 192.189.207.3), 128 through 191 for Class B networks 
(e.g.,128.10.1.30), and 1 through 127 for Class A networks (e.g., 13.27.7.1). 
 
If you have a gateway (router), enter its address with the command SET IP 
ROUTER routeraddress, where routeraddress is the desired IP address of the 
gateway you wish to assign to the Print / Fax server. For example: 
 
Local> SET IP ROUTER 192.189.207.1 
 
To verify that you have entered the IP information correctly, type SHOW IP. 
 
Type EXIT or CTR-D (i.e., hold down the control key and type D) to end the 
remote console session.   
						

							CHAPTER 2 FRONT PANEL SETUP MENU 
 
2-1 
2 
21CHAPTER TWO 
 
Front Panel Setup Menu 
 
 
 
 
LAN Main Setup Menu 
 
The LAN menu selections allow you to setup the Brother FAX/MFC for your 
network and Internet Fax configuration. Press  [Menu] then press the appropriate 
number for LAN, based on the selections displayed on your machine. After you 
have displayed the LAN Main Setup menu, there are six main selections: 1-
Setup TCP/IP, 2-Setup Internet, 3-Setup Mail RX, 4-Setup Mail TX, 5-Setup 
Relay and 6-Setup MISC. Proceed to the menu selection you wish to configure. 
 
Please note that once you have specified a valid IP address for the machine, it is 
also possible to configure many aspects of the FAX/MFC using your favorite 
web browser. For added flexibility, the FAX/MFC is supplied with the BRAdmin 
Professional Windows
® software, which also can be used to configure many 
aspects of the NC-8100h. 
 
1-Setup TCP/IP 
 
This menu has eight sections: 1-Boot Method, 2-IP Address, 3-Subnet Mask, 4-
Gateway, 5-Host Name, 6-WINS Config, 7-WINS Server and 8-DNS Server. 
 
1-BOOT METHOD 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [1]. 
4. Press ! or  to select AUTO, STATIC, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
6.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
7.  Now make sure that you power cycle the FAX/MFC.  
						

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2-2  STATIC mode 
In this mode the FAX/MFC IP address must be manually assigned. Once entered 
the IP address is locked to the assigned address. 
 
AUTO mode 
In this mode, the FAX/MFC will scan the network for a DHCP server, if it can 
find one, and if the DHCP server is configured to allocate an IP address to the 
FAX/MFC, then the IP address supplied by the DHCP server will used. If no 
DHCP server is available, then the FAX/MFC will scan for a BOOTP server. If a 
BOOTP server is available, and it is configured correctly, the FAX/MFC will 
take its IP address from the BOOTP server. After it is initially powered ON, it 
may take a few minutes for the FAX/MFC to scan the network for a server. 
 
If your FAX/MFC supports “POWER SAVE mode” and you are using the 
AUTO Boot mode, POWER SAVE must be set to OFF. 
 
 
RARP mode 
Brother Print / Fax server 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 to the 
following: 
  
00:80:77:31:01:07   BRN_310107 
  
Where the first entry is the Ethernet address of the Print / Fax server and the 
second entry is the name of the Print / Fax server (the name must be the same as 
the one you put in the /etc/hosts file). 
  
If the rarp daemon is not already running, start it (depending on the system the 
command can be rarpd, rarpd -a, in.rarpd -a or something else; type man rarpd or 
refer to your system documentation for additional information). To verify that the 
rarp daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX-based system, type the following 
command: 
  
ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep rarpd 
  
For AT&T UNIX-based systems, type: 
  
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd 
  
The Brother Print / Fax server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when 
it is powered on.  
 
BOOTP mode 
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 host as a real service; type man 
bootpd or refer to your system documentation for information). BOOTP is 
usually started up via the /etc/inetd.conf file, so you may need to enable it by 
removing the # in front of the bootp entry in that file. For example, a typical 
bootp entry in the /etc/inetd.conf file would be: 
  
#bootp dgram udp wait /usr/etc/bootpd bootpd -i 
 
Depending on the system, this entry might be called bootps instead of bootp. 
   
						

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2-3  In order to enable BOOTP, simply use an editor to delete the # (if there is no 
#, then BOOTP is already enabled). Then edit the BOOTP configuration file 
(usually /etc/bootptab) and enter the name, network type (1 for Ethernet), 
Ethernet address and the IP address, subnet mask and gateway of the Print / Fax 
server. Unfortunately, the exact format for doing this is not standardized, so you 
will need to refer to your system documentation to determine how to enter this 
information (many UNIX systems also have template examples in the bootptab 
file that you can use for reference). Some examples of  typical /etc/bootptab 
entries include: 
  
BRN_310107 1  00:80:77:31:01:07 192.189.207.3 
  
and: 
  
BRN_310107:ht=ethernet:ha=008077310107: 
ip=192.189.207.3: 
  
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 configuration file. 
  
As with rarp, the Print / Fax server will load its IP address from the BOOTP 
server when the printer is powered on. 
 
DHCP mode 
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, Windows
® NT®/2000 or Novell Netware network) the Print / 
Fax server will automatically obtains its IP address from DHCP server and 
register its name with any RFC 1001 and 1002-compliant dynamic name services. 
 
If you do not want your Print / Fax server configured via DHCP, BOOTP or 
RARP, you must set the BOOT METHOD to static, this will prevent the Print / 
Fax server from trying to obtain an IP address from any of these systems. To 
change the BOOT METHOD, use the print front panel (for those printers that 
have a LCD panel, TELNET (using the SET IP METHOD command), Web 
browser or by using the BRAdmin application. 
 
2-IP ADDRESS 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [2]. 
4.  Select [1] to change the IP address—OR—[2] to exit. 
5.  Enter the IP address. 
6.  Press [Set] to accept the IP address. 
7.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
  
						

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2-4  IP ADDRESS 
This field displays the current IP address of the FAX/MFC. If you have selected 
a Boot Method of STATIC, enter the IP address that you wish to assign to the 
FAX/MFC (check with your network manager for the IP address to use).  If you 
have selected a method other than STATIC, the FAX/MFC will attempt to 
determine its IP address using the DHCP or BOOTP protocols. The default IP 
address of the Brother network board in your FAX/MFC will probably be 
incompatible with the IP address numbering scheme of your network. We 
recommend that you contact your network manager for an IP address for the 
network the unit will be connected on. 
 
When the BOOT METHOD is set to “AUTO”, the FAX/MFC cannot receive IP 
address from a BOOTP server in Windows
® 2000. So please ensure that you use 
DHCP for Windows® 2000 server. 
 
 
3-SUBNET MASK 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [3]. 
4.  Enter the Subnet Mask address. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the IP address. 
6.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
 
SUBNET Mask 
This field displays the current subnet mask used by the FAX/MFC. If you are not 
using DHCP or BOOTP  to obtain the subnet mask, enter the desired subnet 
mask. Check with your network manager for the subnet mask to use. 
 
4-GATEWAY 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [4]. 
4.  Enter the Gateway address. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
6.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
 
GATEWAY 
This field displays the current gateway or router address used by the FAX/MFC. 
If you are not using DHCP or BOOTP to obtain the gateway or router address, 
enter the address you wish to assign. If you do not have a gateway or router, 
leave this field blank. Check with your network manager if you are unsure. 
 
  
						

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5-HOST NAME 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN 
3.  Press [1] [5]. 
4.  Select [1] to change the Host Name—OR—[2] to exit. 
5.  Enter the Host Name. 
6.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
7.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
 
HOST NAME 
You can register the machine name on the Network. This name is often referred 
to as a NetBIOS name; it will be the name that is registered by the WINS server 
on your network. Brother recommends the name BRN-XXXXXX (where 
XXXXXX is the last six digits of the Ethernet address)  (up to 15 characters). 
 
 
6-WINS Configuration 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN 
3.  Press [1] [6]. 
4. Press ! or  to select AUTO or STATIC. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
6.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
 
WINS Configuration 
This selection controls how the FAX/MFC obtains the IP address for the WINS 
Server. 
 
AUTO 
Automatically uses a DHCP request to determine the IP addresses for the primary 
and secondary WINS servers. You must set the Boot Method to Auto for this 
feature to work. 
 
STATIC 
Uses a specified IP address for the primary and secondary WINS servers. 
 
7-WINS SERVER 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [7]. 
4. Press ! or  to select the Primary or secondary WINS Server. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
6.  Enter the WINS Server address. 
7.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
8.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
  
						

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2-6  PRIMARY WINS Server IP Address 
This field specifies the IP address of the primary WINS (Windows
® Internet 
Naming Service) server. If set to a non-zero value, the machine will contact this 
server to register its name with the Windows
® Internet Name Service. 
 
SECONDARY WINS Server IP Address 
This field specifies the IP address of the secondary WINS server. It is used as a 
backup to the Primary WINS server address. If the Primary server is unavailable, 
the FAX/MFC still can register itself with a secondary server. If set to a non-zero 
value, the machine will contact this server to register its name with the Windows
® 
Internet Name Service. If you have a primary WINS server, but no secondary 
WINS server, simply leave this field blank. 
 
8-DNS SERVER 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [1] [8]. 
4. Press ! or  to select the Primary or secondary DNS Server. 
5.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
6.  Enter the DNS Server address. 
7.  Press [Set] to accept the selection. 
8.  Press [Stop/Exit] to exit the configuration menu. 
 
PRIMARY DNS Server IP Address 
This field specifies the IP address of the primary DNS (Domain Name Service) 
server. 
 
SECONDARY DNS Server IP Address 
This field specifies the IP address of the secondary DNS server. It is used as a 
backup to the Primary DNS server address. If the Primary server is unavailable, 
the FAX/MFC will contact the Secondary DNS server. 
 
2-Setup Internet 
 
This menu has five selections: 1- Mail Address, 2-SMTP Server, 3-POP3 Server, 
4-Mailbox Name and 5-Mailbox PWD. You may find that it is more convenient 
to use your favorite web browser to configure these settings. 
 
1-MAIL ADDRESS 
 
1.  Press the [Menu] button to display the configuration menu. 
2. Select LAN. 
3.  Press [2] [1]. 
  
						

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2-7  Refer to the following table (only for MFC-9700): 
 
Key  Once  Twice  Three times  Four times 
1 @  .  /  1 
2 A B C  2 
3 D E  F  3 
4 G H  I  4 
5  J K L 5 
6 M N O  6 
7 P Q R S 
8 T U V 8 
9 W X Y  Z 
 
If you want to enter a blank space, press 
  twice. 
 
To change the mode between upper case and lower case for entering the e-mail / 
I-Fax address press [!Shift] and [3]. 
 
Refer to the following table (for other models): 
 
One Touch Dial Key Alphabet Conversion Table 
01 - a  02 - b  03 - c  04 - d 
17 – q  18 – r  19 – s  20 - t 
05 – e  06 – f  07 – g  08 - h 
21 – u  22 – v  23 – w  24 - x 
09 – i  10 – j  11 – k  12 - l 
25 – y  26 – z  27 - .  28 - @ 
13 – m  14 – n  15 – o  16 – p 
29 – space  30 – [ special ]  31 – [ symbols]  32 – aA 
 
 
Making corrections: 
If you entered a letter incorrectly and want to change it, press ! to move the 
cursor after the last correct letter. Then re-enter the correct text and/or digits. You 
can also back up and type over incorrect letters. 
 
Repeating letters: 
If you need to enter a character assigned to the same key as the previous 
character, press 
  to move the cursor to the right. 
 
Special characters and symbols : 
Press * for   (space) ! “ # $ % & ’ () * + , - . / € (€ is not available for US and 
Canada users) 
Press # for  : ; < = > ? @ [ ] ^ _ 
Press ∅ for É À È Ê Î Ç Ë Ö 0  (For US and Canada users) 
Ä Ë Ö Ü À Ç È  0 (For other users) 
 
As you enter the E-mail address, it will appear character by character on 
the LCD panel. 
If you specify more than 16 characters, the LCD panel will scroll the 
name to the left, character by character. You can enter up to 60 
characters.  
Please note that also you can connect to the FAX/MFC using a web 
browser and specify the E-mail address information through Web Based 
Management.