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Multi-Protocol Print/Fax Server

Network User’s Guide
NC-9100h

Please read this manual thoroughly before using the machine. 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 machine needs. Download the latest drivers and utilities for
your printers, read the FAQs and troubleshooting tips or learn about special
printing solutions in the 'Solutions' and 'Customer Education' sections.
Some Brother machine models are network ready as standard. Other Brother
printers can be upgraded with an optional Network Print Server.
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Trademarks
Brother is a registered trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd.
HP, HP/UX, JetDirect and JetAdmin are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.
UNIX is a trademarks of UNIX Systems Laboratories.
Ethernet is trademark of Xerox Corporation.
Postscript is trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Netware is a trademark of Novell, Inc.
Apple, Macintosh, LaserWriter, AppleTalk and Rendezvous are trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc.
IBM, LAN Server, and AIX are trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation.
LAN Manager, Windows®, and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
NC-9100h and BRAdmin Professional utility are trademarks of Brother Industries
Ltd.
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 compiled and
published, covering the latest product descriptions and specifications.
The contents of this manual and the specifications of this product are subject to
change without notice.
Brother reserves the right to make changes without notice in the specifications and
materials contained herein and shall not be responsible for any damages (including
consequential) caused by reliance on the materials presented, including but not
limited to typographical and other errors relating to the publication.
©2003 Brother Industries Ltd.

Shipment of the Print/Fax server
If for any reason you must ship your Print/Fax server, carefully package the Print/
Fax server to avoid any damage during transit. It is recommended that you save
and use the original packaging. The print server should also be adequately
insured with the carrier.

WARNING
When shipping the Print/Fax server, put it into the anti-static bag to avoid damage.

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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
In Europe
local

1-877-BROTHER
Visit http://www.brother.com for contact information on your
Brother office.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please write to us at:
In Europe

European Technical 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 International Corporation (Canada), Ltd.
- Marketing Dept.
1, rue Hôtel de Ville
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, PQ, Canada H9B 3H6

Dealers and service centers (USA)
For the name of a Brother authorized dealer or service center, call 1-800-284-4357.
Service centers (Canada)
For the address of service centers in Canada, call 1-877-BROTHER.
Service centers locations (Europe)
For service center in Europe, contact your local Brother office. Address and
telephone contact information or European offices can be found at http://
www.brother.com and selecting your country from the pull down list.
Brother fax-back system (USA)
Brother Customer Service has set up an easy-to-use fax-back system so you can
get instant answers to common technical questions and information about all our
products. This is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can use the
system to send the information 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 Index of the subjects you can get information about.
In USA only

1-800-521-2846

Internet addresses
Brother Global Web Site: http://www.brother.com
For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Product Support and Technical
Questions, and Driver Updates and Utilities: http://solutions.brother.com
(In USA Only) For Brother Accessories & Supplies: http://www.brothermall.com

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Introduction
Overview
The Brother NC-9100h Print / Fax Server allows your Brother
machine to be attached and shared on a 10/100Mbit Ethernet
Network. Web Based Management and Administration utilities
provide easy configuration and management of your Brother
machine. Once installed and configured, the NC-9100h allows your
machine to FAX documents over the Internet; print and scan
documents over a network. The NC-9100h is even supplied with
Brother's Peer to Peer printing software allowing you to easily share
the machine as a small department printer.

Features
Internet Fax
The Brother machine can be assigned an E-mail address allowing
you to send, receive and forward documents on a Local Area
Network and the Internet to PC's or other Internet Fax machines.
SMTP/POP3 mail server support.
Network Printing
The Print / Fax server can be utilized as a print server providing
printing services for the Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT®4.0/
2000/XP, Unix Systems supporting the TCP/IP protocols, Novell
Operating Systems supporting IPX/SPX and Macintosh Networks
supporting AppleTalk or Rendezvous.
Network Scanning
You can scan documents into a PC on your Network directly or the
Brother machine can E-mail them to your PC for editing in Black &
White or Color.
Management Utilities
The Web Based Management and BRAdmin Professional utilities provide
powerful easy to use management of Fax, network and E-mail settings.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: REGULATIONS
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Declaration
of Conformity (For U.S.A. only)
Responsible Party: Brother International Corporation
100 Somerset Corporate Boulevard
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0911, USA
TEL: (908) 704-1700
declares, that the products
Product Name:
Model Number:

Brother Network Card (BR-net)
NC-9100h

complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following
two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2)
this device must accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a
Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are
designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the
instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular
installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off
and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or
more of the following measures:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Important
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by Brother Industries, Ltd.
could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

Industry Canada Compliance Statement (For Canada only)
This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme a la norme NMB-003
du Canada.

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Declaration of Conformity (Europe)
We,

Brother Industries, Ltd.,
15-1, Naeshiro-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8561, Japan

declare that this product is in conformity with the following normative
documents.
Safety:
EMC:

EN 60950,
EN 55022 Class B,

EN 55024

following the provisions of the Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC and the
Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 89/336/EEC (as amended by 91/
263/EEC and 92/31/EEC).
Issued by:

Brother Industries, Ltd.
Information & Document Company

Caution for LAN connection
Connect this product to a LAN connection that is not subjected to overvoltages.

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
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its contributors may
be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL INTEL OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................ 1-iii
Overview................................................................ 1-iii
Features ................................................................ 1-iii
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: REGULATIONS........ 1-iv
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Declaration of Conformity (For U.S.A. only) .......... 1-iv
Industry Canada Compliance Statement (For Canada
only)....................................................................... 1-iv
Declaration of Conformity (Europe) ........................ 1-v
Caution for LAN connection................................ 1-v
Intel Copyright and License Information ................. 1-v
Table of Contents ............................................................ 1-vi

Unix Printing.......................................................................... 1-1
Printing from Unix/Linux Using TCP/IP............................. 1-1
Overview..................................................................... 1-1
TCP/IP ........................................................................ 1-2
General TCP/IP UNIX Host Configuration .................. 1-2
Linux Configuration..................................................... 1-6
Linux Configuration Using CUPS ........................... 1-6
HP-UX Configuration .................................................. 1-7
IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration ................................. 1-8
Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration ..................................... 1-9
SCO UNIX Configuration .......................................... 1-10
IBM AS/400 .............................................................. 1-11
Other Systems .......................................................... 1-12
Other Sources of Information.................................... 1-13
TCP/IP Printing...................................................................... 2-1
Printing from Windows NT®4.0, Windows® 2000/XP, LAN
Server and Warp Server ................................................... 2-1
Overview..................................................................... 2-1
Windows NT®4.0 and 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
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Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software .............. 2-5
Windows NT®4.0 Printing
Associating to the Printer............................................ 2-6
Windows NT®4.0 Printing
Adding a Second Brother LPR Port............................ 2-7
Other Sources of Information ..................................... 2-7

Peer to Peer Printing ............................................................ 3-1
How to Print in a Windows® 95/98/Me Peer to Peer network
3-1
Overview..................................................................... 3-1
Quick Tips: ............................................................. 3-1
Driver Deployment Wizard ..................................... 3-2
TCP/IP Printing........................................................... 3-2
Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software .............. 3-2
Associating to the Printer............................................ 3-3
Adding a Second Brother LPR Port............................ 3-5
Other Sources of Information ..................................... 3-5
NetBIOS Peer to Peer Printing............................................. 4-1
How to Print Using NetBIOS in Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/
XP, Windows NT®4.0, LAN Server and OS/2 Warp Server 41
Overview..................................................................... 4-1
Print Server Configuration .......................................... 4-2
Changing the workgroup/domain name using a web
browser....................................................................... 4-3
NetBIOS Port Monitor for Windows® 95/98/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
Other Sources of Information ..................................... 4-8
Configuring Internet Printing for Windows® ............................................... 5-1
Internet Printing Installation .............................................. 5-1
Overview..................................................................... 5-1
Brother Internet Print General Information ................. 5-2
Brother Internet Print: Configuring the Brother Print/Fax
Server ......................................................................... 5-3

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Print Server Configuration Checklist....................... 5-3
Brother Internet Print: Using BRAdmin Professional utility
to Configure the Print Server ...................................... 5-4
Brother Internet Print: Using a Web Browser to Configure
the Print Server........................................................... 5-5
Brother Internet Print: Installing the BIP software on
Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0.. 5-6
Setup from CD-ROM .............................................. 5-6
Adding a Second Brother Internet Port....................... 5-9
Windows® 2000/XP IPP Printing................................. 5-9
Specifying a Different URL ....................................... 5-11
Other Sources of Information.................................... 5-11

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 for NetWare5
6-3
NDPS Manager........................................................... 6-3
NDPS Broker .............................................................. 6-4
Creating a Printer Agent ............................................. 6-5
Configuring NetWare 3 and NetWare 4 systems........ 6-6
Creating a Network Print Server (Bindery Queue Server)
using BRAdmin Professional utility ............................. 6-6
Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Queue Server)
using BRAdmin Professional utility ............................. 6-8
Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Queue Server)
using Novell NWADMIN and BRAdmin Professional
utility ........................................................................... 6-9
Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Remote Printer)
using Novell NWAdmin and BRAdmin Professional utility
6-12
Other Sources of Information.................................... 6-13
Printing from a Macintosh®...................................................................................................7-1
Printing From a Macintosh® Using AppleTalk and TCP/IP or
Rendezvous...................................................................... 7-1
Overview..................................................................... 7-1
Macintosh® Configuration (Mac OS® 8.6 - 9.2) ........... 7-2
How to Select the Print Server
(AppleTalk/EtherTalk) ................................................. 7-3
How to Select the Print Server (TCP/IP)..................... 7-5
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(OS X 10.1-10.2.1 or greater)..................................... 7-7
How to Select the Print Server
(AppleTalk/EtherTalk)................................................. 7-8
How to Select the Print Server (TCP/IP) .................... 7-9
Changing the Configuration...................................... 7-10
Other Sources of Information ................................... 7-10
Rendezvous Printing ................................................ 7-10

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 Setup................................... 8-3
Configuring DLC on Other Systems ........................... 8-4
Other Sources of Information ..................................... 8-5
Web Based Management ..................................................... 9-1
How to use a Web Browser to
manage your Device......................................................... 9-1
Overview..................................................................... 9-1
How to connect to your machine using a Browser ..... 9-2
Password Information................................................. 9-2
Other Sources of Information ..................................... 9-2
Front Panel Setup Menu..................................................... 10-1
LAN Main Setup Menu ................................................... 10-1
Setup TCP/IP............................................................ 10-2
BOOT Method ...................................................... 10-2
IP Address ............................................................ 10-5
Subnet Mask ........................................................ 10-5
Gateway ............................................................... 10-6
Host Name ........................................................... 10-6
WINS CONFIG ..................................................... 10-7
WINS Server ........................................................ 10-7
DNS Server .......................................................... 10-8
APIPA ................................................................... 10-9
Setup Internet (For MFC only)................................ 10-10
Mail Address....................................................... 10-10
SMTP Server ...................................................... 10-11
POP3 Server ...................................................... 10-11
Mailbox Name .................................................... 10-12
Mailbox Pwd ....................................................... 10-12

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Setup Mail RX (For MFC only)................................ 10-13
Auto Polling ........................................................ 10-13
Poll Frequency.................................................... 10-13
Header................................................................ 10-13
Del Error Mail...................................................... 10-14
Notification.......................................................... 10-14
Setup Mail TX (For MFC only) ................................ 10-15
Sender Subject ................................................... 10-15
Size Limit ............................................................ 10-15
Notification.......................................................... 10-15
Setup Relay (For MFC only) ................................... 10-17
Rly Broadcast ..................................................... 10-17
Relay Domain ..................................................... 10-17
Relay Report....................................................... 10-18
Setup Misc. ............................................................. 10-19
Netware .............................................................. 10-19
Net Frame........................................................... 10-19
AppleTalk............................................................ 10-19
DLC/LLC............................................................. 10-20
Net BIOS/IP ........................................................ 10-20
Ethernet .............................................................. 10-20
Time Zone .......................................................... 10-21
User Setting List (For MFC only) ............................ 10-22
Setup Scan to E-mail (For MFC only)..................... 10-22
Color File Type for Scan to E-mail...................... 10-22

TCP/IP Configuration.......................................................... 11-1
Assigning TCP/IP Information......................................... 11-1
Overview................................................................... 11-1
Using the machine control panel to allocate
an IP address (Models with LCD panels only).......... 11-2
Changing the IP Address using the BRAdmin
Professional utility..................................................... 11-2
Using BRAdmin Professional utility and the IPX/SPX
Protocol to set the IP address................................... 11-3
Using BRAdmin Professional utility and the TCP/IP
Protocol to set the IP address................................... 11-4
Using DHCP to Configure the IP address................. 11-5
Using APIPA to Configure the IP Address................ 11-5
Using ARP to Configure the Print/Fax
Server IP Address..................................................... 11-6
Using RARP to Configure the IP Address ................ 11-8
Using BOOTP to Configure the IP Address.............. 11-9
Other Sources of Information.................................. 11-10

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Internet FAX (MFC Only) .................................................... 12-1
Overview................................................................... 12-1
Getting Connected ............................................... 12-2
Front Panel Key Functions ................................... 12-2
Sending an Internet Fax ........................................... 12-3
Manually Entering Text............................................. 12-3
Receiving E-mail or Internet Fax .............................. 12-5
Receiving an Internet Fax to a PC............................ 12-6
Forwarding Received E-mail and Fax Messages ..... 12-6
Relay Broadcasting .................................................. 12-7
Relay Broadcast from a MFC ............................... 12-7
Relay Broadcast from a PC .................................. 12-9
TX Verification Mail................................................... 12-9
Setup Mail (TX)....................................................... 12-10
Setup Mail (RX) ...................................................... 12-10
Error mail ................................................................ 12-11
Important information on Internet Fax .................... 12-11
Troubleshooting ................................................................. 13-1
Overview................................................................... 13-1
Installation problems................................................. 13-1
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings
(Test Switch)............................................................. 13-4
Intermittent Problems ............................................... 13-4
TCP/IP Troubleshooting ........................................... 13-5
UNIX Troubleshooting .............................................. 13-5
Windows NT®4.0/LAN Server (TCP/IP) Troubleshooting
13-7
Windows® 95/98/Me Peer to Peer Print
(LPR) Troubleshooting ............................................. 13-7
Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer (HP JetAdmin
compatible method) Troubleshooting ....................... 13-8
Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0
Peer-to-Peer Print (NetBIOS) Troubleshooting ........ 13-8
Brother Internet Print (TCP/IP) Troubleshooting ...... 13-9
Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP IPP Troubleshooting . 13-9
Novell NetWare Troubleshooting............................ 13-10
AppleTalk Troubleshooting..................................... 13-11
DLC/LLC Troubleshooting ...................................... 13-12
Web Browser Troubleshooting (TCP/IP) ................ 13-12
Internet Fax Troubleshooting.................................. 13-13
Appendix .............................................................................. A-1
Appendix A .......................................................................A-1

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General Information ................................................... A-1
BRAdmin Professional utility (Recommended)...... A-1
Web BRAdmin ....................................................... A-1
HTTP (Recommended) ......................................... A-2
WebJetAdmin ........................................................ A-2
Appendix B ...................................................................... A-3
Using Services........................................................... A-3
General.................................................................. A-3
Appendix C ...................................................................... A-4
Reloading the Print / FAX Server Firmware............... A-4
General.................................................................. A-4
Reloading firmware using BRAdmin Professional utility ..
A-5
Reloading using the FTP Protocol from a command
prompt ....................................................................... A-6
Reloading using the FTP Protocol from a Web Browser .
A-7
Appendix D ...................................................................... A-8
Updating other MFC’s through the Network .............. A-8
Appendix E .................................................................... A-11
Specifications........................................................... A-11
Function Table and Default Factory Settings........... A-14

INDEX ....................................................................................... -1

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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. As with all protocols,
TCP/IP communications can proceed concurrently while other
protocols are active, this means that UNIX, NetWare, Apple, and
other computers can share the same Brother print server over an
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 Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) protocol
automatically assigns an IP address from the range:
169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255. If you want to disable the
APIPA protocol, set APIPA to Off using the machine control
panel. For more information, see APIPA on page 10-9. If the
APIPA protocol is disabled, the default IP address of a Brother
Print/Fax server is 192.0.0.192. To change it, use the control
panel, the BRAdmin Professional utility, Web BRAdmin
software or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the
machine.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

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).
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5 When configuring the PRINTCAP file, pay particular attention to
the service names, BINARY_P1 and TEXT_P1.

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
servers without the need for any special software on the host
computer. For special applications, raw TCP ports are also available.
Brother Print/Fax servers 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
of 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 Professional
utility, or the machine control panel.
For setting the IP address of the Print/Fax server, see
Chapter 11 of this user guide or the Quick Setup Guide

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 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

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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 configure the hosts file.

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).

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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 see SCO UNIX Configuration on page 1-10 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 Step 4. SCO
user's should also skip to Step 4 (SCO uses the printcap file,
but this file is automatically configured via the rlpconf
command).
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 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.

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The rm and rp options are not available on some UNIX
systems, so if necessary check your documentation 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
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.

Linux Configuration Using CUPS
Many Linux systems support Common Unix Printing System
(CUPS).
For more detailed information on Linux printing visit the Brother
Solutions web site at: http://solutions.brother.com

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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 and then Add Remote Printer/Plotter.
5 Enter any name as the Printer Name (this will be the name of
the print queue).

6 Enter the IP address of the Print/Fax server as the Remote
System Name.

7 Enter the desired Print/Fax server service name as the Remote
Printer Name.

8 Check the box next to Remote Printer is 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 you are sending the print jobs
to a file server, which in turn spools the job to the Print/Fax server.
You must therefore know the name of the file server (spooler host) in
addition to the above information. You will add a physical and a
remote printer, and then assign a logical printer to the remote printer
(a unique name that does not match any other name). To print, use
the lp -d command with the logical printer name.

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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).
■ Remote system name (the Print/Fax server name; must
match what is in hosts file or use Print/Fax server IP
address).
■ Remote printer queue (Print server binary or text service
name, e.g. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).
■ Remote Printer is on a BSD System (Yes).

IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration
The RS/6000 AIX operating system uses the smit program to set up
the remote printer. The procedure is as follows for AIX 4.0 and later:

1 Enter smit and select devices.
2 Select Printer/Plotter.
3 Select Print Spooling.
4 Select Add a Print Queue.
5 Select Remote.
6 Enter the following Remote Printer Settings:
Name of queue (user selectable)
Host name of Remote Printer (Print/Fax server name; must
match name in /etc/hosts file or use the print server IP
address)
Name of queue on remote printer (Print/Fax server binary or
text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).
Type of print spooler. BSD (press the LIST button and choose
BSD)
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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 settings:
■ Name of queue to add (user selectable).
■ Activate the queue (Yes).
■ Destination host (Print/Fax server name; must match name
in /etc/hosts file or use the Print/Fax server IP address)
■ Name of queue on remote printer (Print/Fax 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 for remote
printer configuration:
lpsystem -t bsd prnservername
lpadmin -p queue -s prnservername!prnserverservice
accept queue
(not required on newer Solaris systems)
enable queue
(not required on newer Solaris systems)
Where queue is the name of the local Print/Fax queue.
prnservername is the name of the Print/Fax server (must match
the entry in the /etc/hosts file or IP address).
prnserverservice is the print server BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1
service.

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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/Fax server name in the format
prnservername!\prnserverservice as described above.
Make sure that the printer server OS is set to 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 print jobs.
If this is the case, a workaround is to use the raw TCP port software
as described later in this chapter.

SCO UNIX Configuration
To configure a printer in version Version 5.x of SCO Unix, use the
SCOADMIN program.

1 Select Printers and then Print Manager.
2 On the menu select Printer and then Add Remote followed by
Unix...

3 Enter the IP address of the Print/Fax server, and type in the
name of the printer that will be used to spool to.

4 Deselect Use External remote Printing Protocol...
5 To eject the printed page, add the command rp=lpaf to the /
etc/printcap file.

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SCO UNIX requires TCP/IP V1.2 or later to work with Brother print
servers. You must first configure the /etc/hosts and /etc/
printcap files as described in step 2. Then run the sysadmsh
program as follows:

1 Select Printers.
2 Select Configure.
3 Select Add.
4 Enter the name of the print queue you entered in the /etc/
printcap file as the Printer name.

5 Enter anything as the Comment, and Class name.
6 For the Use printer interface select Existing.
7 Press the F3 key to get a list of available interfaces, and select
the desired one as the Name of interface using the cursor keys
(Dumb is a good choice).

8 Select Direct as the Connection.
9 Enter the desired Device name (/dev/lp generally works).
10 Select Hardwired as the Device.
11 Select No for the Require banner field.
Older SCO Unix Systems
The Brother NC-9100h Print/Fax servers 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/Fax server with an IBM AS/400 running IBM's
TCP/IP gateways services for OS/400 (the OS/400 system must be
v3.1 or later)
Use the CFGTCP command at your OS/400 prompt to add the Print/
Fax server's TCP/IP address to the AS/400 host table.
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Use the following one-line OS/400 command to create the LPD
queue:
CRTOUTQ OUTQ( RMSTSYS
(*INTNETADR) RMTPRTQ()
AUTOSTRWTR(1) CNNTYPE(*IP) DESTTYPE (*OTHER)
MFRTYPMDL ()
INTNETADR('') TEXT
('')
where is the new AS/400 print queue name,
is the Print/Fax 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/Fax server. Note that the IP address and description must
be enclosed in single quotes.

Other Systems
Other systems use similar programs to set up Print/Fax servers.
These programs will generally ask for the following information:
Requested information:

You should use:

remote printer

Binary or Text service name

remote host computer name

Any name (must match the
name in the printcap file, if any)
or in some cases, you may enter
the Print/Fax server IP address
here

remote host IP address

IP address of Print/Fax server.

Technical support specialists for these companies can usually
answer configuration questions if you provide them with the
equivalent UNIX configuration information (tell them that the Print/
Fax server looks like a remote UNIX host computer running the lpd
line printer daemon).

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If you have not created a spool directory for the Brother Print/Fax
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 create the spool directory). The lpd spool directory
is usually located in the /usr/spool directory (check with your
system manager to see if the location is different for your system). To
create a new spool directory, use the mkdir command. For
example, to create a spool directory for the queue laser1, you would
enter:
mkdir /usr/spool/lpd/laser1
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
1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on
network printing.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

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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 machine using the TCP/IP protocol. Microsoft Windows
NT®4.0 users must install Microsoft’s “TCP/IP Printing“ protocol.
Windows® 2000/XP users are able to send print jobs directly to the
printer without installing any additional software. Brother's print
server also supports transparent printing from IBM LAN Server and
OS/2 Warp Server file servers, as well as from OS/2 Warp Connect
workstations using the TCP/IP protocol.
Quick Tips:

2 The default password for Brother Print/Fax servers is access.
3 Windows NT®4.0 users must install the Microsoft “TCP/IP
Printing“ protocol.

4 Windows® 2000/XP users can print using TCP/IP using the
standard Network Printing software and IPP protocol software
built into any Windows® 2000/XP installation.
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5 Windows® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP
protocol via a Windows® 2000/XP computer provided 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 PC is using version 4 or later of
Microsoft Internet Explorer. For more information, see
Windows® 2000/XP IPP Printing on page 5-9.

6 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).

Windows NT®4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP (TCP/IP)
Configuration
If you have not already done so, install the TCP/IP protocol onto your
Windows NT®4.0 system. This is done via the Network icon in the
Control Panel window of the Windows NT®4.0 system (use the
Start button on Windows NT®4.0 to access the Settings/Control
Panel menu). The default configuration of Windows® 2000/XP
automatically 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 describes
the two most commonly used configurations, Standard TCP/IP Port
printing and IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). If you have already
installed the printer driver, jump to the printer driver already
installed section.

Standard TCP/IP Port Printing
1 From the Printers folder select Add Printer. The Add Printer
Wizard will now start. Click on Next.

2 Now select the Local Printer option and deselect the
Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer
option.
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3 Click on Next.
4 You must now select the correct Network printing port. Select
Create a new port and select Standard TCP/IP Port port from
the pull-down window.

5 When you have done that click Next.
6 The Add Standard TCP/IP Port Wizard will now appear. Click
the Next button.

7 Enter the IP address, or name of the printer you wish to
configure. The Wizard will automatically enter the Port name
information for you.

8 Click the Next button.
9 Windows® 2000/XP will now contact the printer that you
specified. If you did not specify the correct IP address or name
then you will receive an error message.

10 Click the Finish button to complete the Wizard.
11 Now that you have configured the port, you must specify which
printer driver you wish to use. Select the appropriate driver from
the list of supported printers. If you are using a driver supplied
with the machine on CD-ROM 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 if you wish to share the printer, enter the share
name and click Next.

15 Continue through the Wizard clicking the Finish button when
complete.

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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 you wish to configure.
2 Select File and then choose Properties.
3 Click the Ports tab of the driver and click Add Port.
4 Select the port that you wish to use. Typically this would be
Standard TCP/IP Port. Then click the New Port... button.

5 The standard TCP/IP Port Wizard will start. Follow the Step 6
to 10 in the Standard TCP/IP Port Printing section.

Windows NT®4.0 Printing
If you did not install the TCP/IP protocol during the installation of your
Windows NT®4.0 system (either workstation or server) follow these
steps. If you have already installed the TCP/IP protocol, proceed to
the next section.

1 Go to the Start button, choose Settings, and then select
Control Panel.

2 Run the Network applet by double clicking the Network icon
and then click on the Protocols tab.

3 Select Add, and double click on the TCP/IP Protocol.
4 Insert the requested disk(s), or CD-ROM, to copy the required files.
5 Click the Close button. The Windows NT®4.0 system will review
protocol bindings and then you will see the TCP/IP Properties
dialog.

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6 Configure the host IP address, subnet mask, and gateway address
in that dialog. Consult your system manager for these addresses.

7 Click OK to exit (your Windows NT®4.0 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 then select Install Software.
Then select the Network Print Software installation program.

3 Click on Next in response to the Welcome message.
4 Select the Brother Peer to Peer Print (LPR) button.
5 Select the desired directory to install the Brother Peer to Peer
Print (LPR) files and click on Next. The installation program will
create the directory for you if it does not already exist on your
disk.

6 Enter the Port name that you wish to use and click OK. The
default port name is BLP1. Whichever name you choose, it must
be unique and it MUST begin with BLP.

7 You must now enter the actual IP address of the print server in
the IP Address field. If you have edited the hosts file on your
computer or are using Domain Name System, you can also
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 configuration page. By default the NetBIOS name will
appear as BRN_xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last six digits of
the Ethernet address.

8 Click the OK button. When prompted you must re-boot your
computer.

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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 the Add Printer
Wizard.

3 Select My Computer (not Network Printer) and click on Next.
4 Select the Brother LPR Port (the port name you assigned in step
6 of the “Installing Brother Peer to Peer Software” section in this
chapter) and click on Next.

5 Select the desired printer model. If the correct model is not
displayed, click on the Have Disk option and insert the CDROM supplied with your printer.

6 If the driver already exists, select Keep Existing Driver (if it
does not exist, this step will be skipped), and then click on Next.

7 If desired, change the name of the printer then click Next.
8 If desired, make the printer shared (so other user can access it),
and select the operating system(s) that these other computers
will be running. Click on Next.

9 Select Yes when you asked Would you like to print a test
page?. Click on Finish to complete the installation. You may
now print to the printer as if it were a local printer.

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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, press 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, and then choose
Properties. Click on the Ports tab and push the Add Port button. In
the 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 message if
you try to use it again, in which case use BLP2, etc... Once you have
specified the port name, click the OK button. You will then see the
Port Settings dialog.
Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and click
OK. And then click Close in the Printer Ports dialog. You should
now see the port that you have just created in the Print to the
following port(s) setting of the printer driver.

Other Sources of Information
1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on
network printing and for documents on the IPP protocol and how
to configure a Windows® 2000/XP/95/98/Me/XP System.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

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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 file server based network
environment.
For smaller networks, Windows® 95/98/Me also allows the PC to
operate in a peer-to-peer mode. In this mode, the PC can share
resources with other PCs on the network without the need for a
central file server.

Quick Tips:
1 The Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) protocol
automatically assigns an IP address from the range:
169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255. If you want to disable the
APIPA protocol, set APIPA to Off using the machine control
panel. For more information, see APIPA on page 10-9. If the
APIPA protocol is disabled, the default IP address of a Brother
Print/Fax server is 192.0.0.192. To change it, use the control
panel, the BRAdmin Professional utility, Web BRAdmin
software or let your DHCP server allocate an IP address to the
machine.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

3 The default password for Brother Print/Fax servers is access.

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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 can save the file to the File server or send the
file in E-mail to users. Then, each user just clicks that file to have the
printer driver, port driver, IP address, and so on, automatically copied
to their PC.
For more information, see the Driver Deployment Wizard User’s
Guide on the CD-ROM.

TCP/IP Printing
Our Peer to Peer printing software requires the TCP/IP protocol to be
installed on your Windows® peer-to-peer computers and an IP
Address has to be defined for the Print/Fax server. Refer to your
Windows® documentation for more information on how to configure
the TCP/IP protocol on your Windows® PC.
If you haven't already done so, configure the IP address of the
machine, for more information on IP address configuration, see
chapter 11 of this user guide.

Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software
If you already 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 the proper model and then the Software Installation
menu. Then select the appropriate menu to start the Brother
Network Print Software installation program.

3 Push the Next button in response to the Welcome message.
4 Select the Brother Peer to Peer Print (LPR) button.
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5 Select the desired directory to install the Brother Peer to Peer
Print (LPR) files and push Next. The installation program will
create the directory for you if it does not already exist on your
disk.

6 Enter the Port name that you wish to use and click OK. The
default port name is BLP1. Whichever name you choose, it must
be unique and it MUST begin with BLP.

7 You must now enter the actual IP address of the Print/Fax
server in the Printer name or IP address field. If you have
edited the hosts file on your computer or are using Domain
Name System, you can also enter the name of the print server.
As the Print/Fax server supports TCP/IP and NetBIOS names,
you can also enter the NetBIOS name of the Print/Fax server.
The NetBIOS name can be seen in your printer settings page.
By default the NetBIOS name will usually appear as
BRN_xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet
address.
Windows® 95/98/Me store the hosts file in the default
Windows® directory. By default, the Windows® hosts file is
called hosts.sam. If you wish to use the hosts file you must
rename the file to hosts with no extension. The.sam
extension stands for sample.

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
Printers.

2 Select Add Printer to begin the printer installation.
3 Click Next when you get the Add Printer Wizard window.
4 Select Local Printer when you are asked how the printers are
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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 the option of either keeping the existing driver
(recommended) or replacing it. Select the desired option and
press Next.

7 Select the Brother LPR port (the port name you assigned in step
6 of the “Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software” section)
and press Next.

8 Enter any desired name for the Brother printer and press Next.
For example, you could call the printer “Networked Brother
Printer”.

9 Windows® will now ask you if you wish to print out a test page,
select Yes and then select Finish.
You have now finished installing the Peer to Peer Print (LPR) software.

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Adding a Second Brother LPR Port
You do not re-run the install program to add a new Brother LPR port.
Instead, press 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, and then choose
Properties. Click on the Details tab and push the Add Port button.
In the Add Port dialog, select the Other radio button and then
highlight Brother LPR port. Click OK and enter the port name. The
default port name is BLP1. If you have already used this name, you
will get an error message if you try to use it again, in which case use
BLP2, etc... Once you have specified the port name, click the OK
button. You will then see the Port Properties dialog.
Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and click
OK. You should now see the 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 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
chapter 11 of this User’s Guide .

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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/Fax server range supports SMB (Server Message
Block) over the TCP/IP protocol via the NetBIOS interface. This
means that just like regular Windows® PC's, Brother printers can
appear in your network neighborhood. The main advantage of
NetBIOS printing is that you are able to print from legacy DOS
applications that are running on PC's that are connected to Microsoft
networks.
Quick Tips:

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide .

3 The default password for Brother Print/Fax servers is access.
4 The default domain name of the Print/Fax server is WORKGROUP,
to change it use your web browser or the BRAdmin Professional
utility.
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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/Fax server will appear
automatically in your network neighborhood and you will be able to
send print documents to it without having to install additional
software. However, in some instances you may 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 jobs while the printer is busy, down or out of
paper. The port monitor will hold the jobs until the printer is again
available.
When you install Windows® 95/98/Me you are asked which
workgroup you belong to. The default workgroup name for Windows®
95/98/Me is WORKGROUP, however you could change this to anything
you want. With Windows NT®4.0, Microsoft introduced the concept of
“Domains”. A domain offers centralized security management
whereas a workgroup offers distributed security management. The
Print/Fax server does not care if your network consists of a
Workgroup or a Domain, the only thing you must tell it is the name of
the workgroup or domain. The Brother Print/Fax server automatically
has a default workgroup/domain name of WORKGROUP. If you need to
change name, you can configure the Brother print server to
recognize this. There are three ways of doing this. (If you are unsure
about the name of your workgroup or domain, look in the
identification tab in your network applet).
■ Use BRAdmin Professional utility (This utility can use the TCP/IP
protocol or Netware IPX protocol - no file server necessary.)
■ Use a Web browser (the Print/Fax server must have a valid IP
address and your computer must also have a valid IP address);
you can configure the IP address by using BRAdmin Professional
utility.
■ Use front panel on the machine. For more information, see
Chapter 10 of this user guide.

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Because of the way that Microsoft networks work, the Print/
Fax server may take several minutes to appear in the
network neighborhood. You will also find that the Print/Fax
server may take several minutes to disappear from the
network neighborhood even if the printer is switched off. This
is a feature of Microsoft workgroup and domain based
networks.

Changing the workgroup/domain name using a
web browser
You can change the workgroup/domain name using BRAdmin
Professional utility. To do this press NetBIOS tab and then enter your
workgroup/domain name into the Domain Name text box.
You can also use a standard WWW browser to change the NetBIOS
name. To do this, connect to the print server using its IP address and
then select the Configure NetBIOS option from the Network
Configuration screen, then enter your workgroup/domain name into
the Domain Name text box. Make sure you submit the changes
(click on the Submit button).

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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®
documentation.
If you are using the TCP/IP protocol, the proper IP address should
be defined on both the Brother Print/Fax server and your client PC.

Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor
If you already installed the driver from the printers 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 the proper model and then the Software Installation
menu. Then select the Network Print Software menu to start
the Brother Network Print Software installation program.

3 Push the Next button in response to the Welcome message.
4 Select Brother Peer to Peer Print (NetBIOS) installation
5 Select the desired directory to install the Brother Peer to Peer
Print (NetBIOS) files and push Next.

6 Enter the port name that you wish to use. The port name must
start with “BNT”. For example BNT1. Whichever name you
choose, it must be unique. Then press OK. The name must be
unique on your PC, however other computers can use the same
port name as the name you specify on your PC.

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7 You must now enter the server name and port name for the
actual Print/Fax server. You can use the Browse button to
search for the Print/Fax server, select the domain/workgroup
name, and then the server is listed. If the print server does not
automatically appear in your browse list, then you must ensure
that the domain name is configured correctly. Otherwise you
must enter the name manually. The name should be compliant
with UNC (Universal Name Convention). For example:
\\NodeName\ServiceName.
Where NodeName is the NetBIOS name of the Brother Print/
Fax server (the default name is usually BRN_xxxxxx, where
xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address), and
ServiceName is the service name for NetBIOS of the Print/
Fax 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 configuration page. see Resetting the
Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on
page 13-4 for information on how to print the configuration
page on your Print/Fax server.

8 Then press OK.
9 Click the Finish button. You must now restart your computer
before you can continue.

Associating the Printer
1 You must now create a printer on your Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0 systems using the standard
Windows® printer setup procedure. To do this, go the Start
button, select Setting and then Printers.

Windows® 95/98/Me
2 Select Add Printer to begin the printer installation.
3 Click Next when you get the Add Printer Wizard window.
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4 Select Local Printer when you are asked how the printer is
connected to your computer, and then push Next.

7 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.

8 Enter any desired name for the Brother machine and press
Next. For example, you could call the printer “Networked
Brother Printer”.

9 Windows® will now ask you if you wish to print out a test page,
select Yes and then select Finish.
You are now ready to print. If necessary, you can share the printer
on your PC so that all print jobs are routed through your computer.

Windows NT®4.0 / Windows® 2000/XP
2 Select Add Printer to begin the printer installation.
3 Click Next when you get the Add Printer Wizard window.
4 Select Local printer (Windows® 2000) or Local printer attached
to this 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 7 of the “Installing the Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor”
section and press Next.

6 Select the correct driver. Click Next when you are done.

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7 If you have selected a printer driver that is already used, you have
the option of either keeping the existing driver (recommended) or
replacing it. Select the desired option and press Next.

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 are now ready to print. If necessary, you can share the printer
on your PC so that all print jobs are routed through your computer.

Adding a Second NetBIOS Print Port
1 You do not need to re-run the installation program to add a new
NetBIOS port. Instead, press 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, and
then choose Properties.

Windows® 95/98/Me
2 Click on the Details tab and push the Add Port button. In the
Add Port dialog, select the Other radio button and then
highlight Brother NetBIOS port. Click OK 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 it again,
in which case use BNT2, etc... Once you have specified the port
name, click the OK button. You will then see the Port
Properties Dialog. Enter the Print/Fax server and port name of
the printer that you wish to print to and click OK. You should now
see the port that you have just created in the Print to the
following port setting of the printer driver.

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Windows NT®4.0 / Windows® 2000/XP
2 Click on the Port/s 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 it again, in which case use BNT2, etc... Once
you have specified the port name, click the OK button. You will
then see the Port Properties Dialog. Enter the Print/Fax server
and port name of the printer that you wish to print to and click
OK. You should now see the 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 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

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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 Printer at a remote location via the Internet.
For example, a user on a PC in New York could print a document
directly from his Microsoft Excel application program to a printer in
Paris.
Windows® 2000/XP users can also use this BIP software, but are
recommended to use the IPP protocol support that is part of the
Windows® 2000/XP operating systems. Skip to the “Windows® 2000
IPP Printing” section of this document.
Quick Tips:

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

3 The default password for Brother Print/Fax servers is access.
4 Windows® 2000/XP users can print using TCP/IP using the
standard Network Printing software and IPP protocol software
built into any Windows® 2000/XP installation.
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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 on the server and that the client PC is using version 4
or later of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Brother Internet Print General Information
The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual
port on the Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 PC
that operates in a similar way to the standard LPT1 printer port from
the application program 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 therefore print to this printer (and hence to the virtual
port) without modification or operational procedure.
When a job is printed to the BIP virtual port, it is actually MIMEencoded (converted to a standard Internet E-mail message) and sent
out to a Brother Print/Fax server at the remote location. This means
that BIP is compatible with most common E-mail software packages.
The only requirement is that the E-mail server be capable of sending
E-mail message over the Internet.
In more detail, the procedure works in the following way:
■ If you are connected to a Local Area Network, the E-mail message
is passed to the E-mail server, which in turn transmits the
message out over the Internet using the SMTP protocol (Simple
Mail Transport Protocol) to the remote Print/Fax server.
■ If you are connecting via a modem directly to an Internet Service
Provider (ISP), the ISP handles the routing of the E-mail to the
remote Print/Fax server.

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■ At the remote site, an E-mail server receives the E-mail message.
The remote Print/Fax 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
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 Internet Print: Configuring the Brother
Print/Fax Server
The Print/Fax server can be configured using BRAdmin Professional
utility or by using a web browser.

Print Server Configuration Checklist
Before configuring the print server to receive BIP jobs, be
sure that the E-mail server at the remote site (the receiving
end) is configured to handle the TCP/IP POP3, and SMTP
protocols (SMTP is only required if the notification feature is
enabled).

1 Configure the POP3 server on the E-mail server at the remote
site with a mail account (Mailbox name) and password for the
Brother Print/Fax server (generally, the mail account name will
be the first part of the Email address; for example, if you assign
the E-mail address emailprinter@xyz.com, then the mail
account name would be emailprinter).

2 Make sure that the Print/Fax server is installed and running with
TCP/IP enabled and has a valid IP address assigned to it.
Because access to the E-mail server on most networks is usually
restricted, you may need to have your network administrator check
the configuration and add the mail account.

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Brother Internet Print: Using BRAdmin
Professional utility to Configure the Print Server
Skip this section if you wish to use the Web Browser to
configure the Print/Fax server.
Using the BRAdmin Professional utility, you can configure
the Brother print server using the TCP/IP protocol, or the IPX
protocol.
The steps required to configure the Print/Fax server to receive print
jobs from a Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 PC
running the BIP software are as follows.

1 Start BRAdmin Professional utility.
2 Select the node name of the desired Brother Print/Fax server
from the list and double click on it. (the default node name is
usually BRN_xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last 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 machine configuration page. For information on how
to print the configuration page on your Print/Fax server, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.

3 Click on the POP3/SMTP tab.
4 Enter the address of the POP3 server (consult your network
administrator if you do not know this address).

5 Enter the mailbox name for the remote Brother Print/Fax server.
Usually this will be the first part of the E-mail address (for
example, if the E-mail address of the print server is
emailprinter@xyz, then the mailbox name would be
emailprinter).

6 Enter the password for the mailbox, if any.
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7 The Print/Fax server is configured by default to poll the POP3
server every 10 minutes. You may change this value, if desired.

8 If you have enabled notification, enter the address of your SMTP
server (consult your network administrator if you do not know
this address).

9 Press the OK button and save the changes. Now exit the
BRAdmin Professional utility. You have now configured the
Print/Fax server to receive print jobs.

Brother Internet Print: Using a Web Browser to
Configure the Print Server
1 Connect to the printer server IP address using your web
browser.

2 When you reach the network configuration screen, 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. For more information, see
Brother Internet Print: Using BRAdmin Professional utility to
Configure the Print Server on page 5-4.

4 You should see a Segmented Message Timeout option. If a
print job is separated into multiple E-mail messages using the
Partial E-mail Print feature of the BIP, this value indicates how
long the Print/Fax server will wait for all of the segments of the
message to arrive.

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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 NT®4.0 PC, execute the following steps:
■ Be sure that the PC is running an E-mail program (for
example, Microsoft Outlook) that is capable of sending
E-mail message using Winsock.
■ Be sure that your E-mail server is capable of sending
messages across the Internet.

Setup from CD-ROM
1 Start the CD-ROM installation menu program according to the
Quick Setup guide.

2 Select the proper model and Software Installation menu. Then
select the Network Print Software menu to start the Brother
Network Print Software installation program.

3 Push the Next button in response to the Welcome message.
4 Select the Brother Internet Print button.
5 Select the desired directory to install the BIP files and then push
Next. The installation program will create the directory for you if
it does not already exist.

6 You will then be asked for a port name. Enter the name of the
port. The port name must begin with the BIP and end with a
number, for example, BIP1.

7 You will then see a message about Partial E-mail Print. Partial
E-mail Print is the ability of the Brother Internet Print software to
break down E-mail Print jobs into smaller sections to prevent a
mail file size limitation problem for the mail server.

8 Press OK to continue.

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9 You will then be asked to enter the port settings for the remote
Print/Fax server:
Enter any unique legal Internet E-mail address for the remote
Print/Fax server (for example emailprinter@xyz.com). Note that
Internet E-mail addresses cannot have spaces in them.
Enter your E-mail address and the IP address of your SMTP
E-mail server (consult your network administrator if you do not
know this address). Also specify if you are going to use the
Partial E-mail Print option and the Notification type.

10 Press OK to continue. You will then be asked to re-start your
computer.

11 Once your computer has re-started you must create a printer on
your Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0
system using the standard Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and
Windows NT®4.0 printer setup procedure. To do this, go the
Start button, select Settings and then Printers (Windows® 95/
98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0). To do this, go to the
Control Panel, select Printers and Other Hardware and then
Printers and Faxes (or Add a printer)(Windows® XP)

12 Select Add Printer to begin the printer installation.
13 Click Next when you get the Add Printer Wizard window.

14 Select Local Printer when you are asked how the printers are
connected to your computer and push Next.

14 Select Local Printer, and then delete the check mark in Plug
and Play check box.

14 Select Local Printer attached to this computer.

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15 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. Click Next when you are done.

16 If you have selected a printer driver that is already being used, you
have the option of either keeping the existing driver (recommended)
or replacing it. Select the desired option and press Next.

17 Select the Brother Internet port (BIP...) which you selected in
step 6 and 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. Click Next when you are done.

17 If you have selected a printer driver that is already being used,
you have the option of either keeping the existing driver
(recommended) or replacing it. Select the desired option and
press Next.

18 Enter any desired name for the BIP remote printer and press
Next. Note that this name does not need to match the port name
that you assigned in step 6, or E-mail address that you assigned
in step 9.

19 Select No when asked if you want to print a test page, unless
you have already configured the remote Print/Fax server to
receive BIP print jobs.
You have now finished installing the BIP software. If you need to
configure another remote Print/Fax server, go to the next section,
“Adding a Second Brother Internet Port”.

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Adding a Second Brother Internet Port
You should not re-run the install program to add a new Brother
Internet Port. Instead, press the Start button, select Settings, and
open the Printers window. Click on the icon of a printer that is using
BIP, select File from the menu bar, and then choose Properties.
Click on the Details (Ports on Windows NT®4.0) tab and push the
Add Port button.
In the Add Port dialog, select the Other radio button (Windows® 95/
98/Me only) and then Brother Internet Port. Click OK (New Port on
Windows NT®4.0) and it will give you the Port Name text box. Any
unique name can be given here as long as it starts with “BIP” and
another port does not already exist with the same name.

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 Wizard and click the Next button when
you see the Welcome to the Add Printer Wizard screen.

2 You are now able to select Local Printer or Network Printer.
For Windows® 2000: Make sure that you select Network
Printer.
For Windows® XP: Make sure that you select A Network
Printer, or a Printer attached to another computer.

3 You will see the Add Printer Wizard screen.
4 For Windows® 2000: Select Connect to a printer on the
Internet or on your intranet and then enter the following in the
URL field: http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp
(Where printer_ip_address is the IP address or DNS name
of your printer).
For Windows® XP: Select Connect to a printer on the Internet
or on a home or office network and then enter the following in
the URL field: http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp
(Where printer_ip_address is the IP address or DNS name
of your printer).
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5 When you click Next, Windows® 2000/XP will make a
connection with the URL that 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 Driver installation Wizard will complete.
You are now ready to print.
IF THE PRINTER DRIVER HAS NOT BEEN INSTALLED
One of the benefits of the IPP printing protocol is that it establishes
the model name of the printer when you communicate with it. After
successful communication you will see the model name of the printer
automatically. This means that you do not need to inform Windows®
2000 the type of printer driver to be used.

6 Click OK. You will then see the printer selection screen in the
Add Printer Wizard.

7 If your printer is not in the list of supported printers, click the Have
Disk button. You will then be asked to insert the driver disk.

8 Click the Browse button and select the CD-ROM or network
share that contains the appropriate Brother printer driver.

9 Now specify the model name of the printer.
10 If the printer driver that you are installing does not have a Digital
Certificate you will see a warning message. Click Yes to
continue with the installation. The Add Printer Wizard will then
complete.

11 Click the Finish button and the printer is now configured and
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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/ipp
This is the default URL and we recommend that you use this URL.
Please note the Get More Info option will not display any printer data.
http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp/port1
This is for HP JetDirect compatibility. Please note the Get More Info
option will not display any printer data.
http://printer_ip_address:631/
If you forget the URL details, you can simply enter the above text and
the printer will still receive and process data. Please note the Get
More Info option will not display any printer data.
If you are using the built in service names that the Brother NC-9100h
series Print/Fax server supports, you can also use the following:
(However, please note the Get More Info option will not display any
printer data).
http://printer_ip_address:631/brn_xxxxxx_p1
http://printer_ip_address:631/binary_p1
http://printer_ip_address:631/text_p1
http://printer_ip_address:631/postscript_p1
http://printer_ip_address:631/pcl_p1
http://printer_ip_address:631/brn_xxxxxx_p1_at
Where printer_ip_address is the IP address of the printer.

2 Visit Microsoft’s web site for the “Microsoft Internet Print
Services” software for Windows® 95/98/Me.

3 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.
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Novell NetWare Printing

How to Configure Novell NetWare
Printing
Overview
Brother Print/Fax 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 to
the printer when it is available.
Quick Tips:

2 The default password for Brother Print/Fax servers is access.

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General Information
In order to use a Brother Print/Fax server on a NetWare network, one
or more file servers must be configured with a print queue that the
Print/Fax 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
Netware Print Server) to the appropriate Brother Print/Fax server.
The system administrator can create Bindery (NetWare 3), NDS
(NetWare 3 and NetWare 4) based queues in a single environment
without having to switch between applications by using the BRAdmin
Professional utility.
NetWare 5 users wishing to configure an NDPS printer must use the
NWADMIN application supplied with NetWare 5. Please note that it
is possible to create IPX BINDERY or NDS based queues on a
NetWare 5 system using the BRAdmin Professional utility.
You must install the Novell NetWare Client 32 if you wish to create
queue information on your NetWare servers using the BRAdmin
Professional utility.
If you can't use the BRAdmin Professional utility in your environment,
you can create the queue using the traditional NetWare PCONSOLE
utility or NWADMIN utilities, but you will then also need to use a
WWW browser to configure the Print/Fax server.
Brother Print/Fax servers can service up to 16 file servers and 32
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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/Fax server can be configured, NDPS must be installed on the
NetWare 5 server and an NDPS Manager configured on the server.
For further information regarding NDPS printers and printing
please see Other Sources of Information on page 6-13.

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 printer agents. If the NDPS manager controls
a printer attached directly to the server, you must load the manager
on the server that the printer is attached to.

1 In NetWare administrator, navigate to the area you want the
NDPS manager to reside. Select Object | Create | NDPS
Manager and click OK.

2 Enter an NDPS manager name.
3 Browse to a server (which has NDPS installed but no NDPS
manager installed) where you want to install the NDPS manager
and then to the volume you want the NDPS manager database
assigned to. Click create.

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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 the Resource Management Service is enabled.
2 Open the Broker Object's main window in NetWare
Administrator

3 Select the Resource Management view.
4 The Resource Management dialog appears. Select the Add
Resources button.

5 When the Manage Resources dialog appears, select the icon
for the type of driver you want to add. This will be a 3.1x,
Windows® 95/98/Me or Windows NT®4.0 driver for NetWare 5
(Additionally, a Windows® 2000 driver is available for NetWare
5.1). If you are using NDPS version 1 with NetWare 4.x, only
3.1x and 95/98/Me options will be available. NDPS version 2 for
NetWare 4.x will support Windows NT®4.0 drivers automatic
download.

6 A complete list of currently loaded resources of that type
appears in the Current Resources window. Click the Add
button.

7 The Add dialog appears. The listed resources
that appear on this screen are currently installed.

8 Press the Browse button to locate the driver you want to add to
the list. The driver list appears possibly showing several
printers. This should be the driver in the different languages.

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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 Agent.
3 If there is already an NDS printer and you are upgrading it to use
the NDPS scheme, select Existing NDS printer object. You
will then have to select which printer object you wish to upgrade.

4 Enter the name you wish the Printer Agent to be referred to by,
and either type the name of the NDPS Manager or click the
reference button and select a NDPS Manager. Select Novell
Printer Gateway for the Gateway type and click OK.

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 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 a Printer Agent for the public access
printer.

1 In NetWare Administrator, double click NDPS Manager.
2 Click Printer Agent List.
3 Click New.
4 Enter the name you wish the Printer Agent to be referred to by,
and select Novell Printer Gateway for the Gateway type and
click OK.
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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 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 NetWare 4 systems
Brother's BRAdmin Professional utility provides similar functionality
to the NetWare PCONSOLE utility (or the NWADMIN utility in
NetWare 4.1x or later). To use the BRAdmin Professional utility to
create a Brother Print server under NetWare, make sure that you are
logged in as SUPERVISOR (NetWare 2.xx or 3.xx) or ADMIN
(NetWare 4.1x or later) and perform the appropriate steps as detailed
in the following pages.
You must install the Novell NetWare Client 32 if you wish to
create queue information on your NetWare servers by
BRAdmin Professional utility.

Creating a Network Print Server (Bindery Queue
Server) using BRAdmin Professional utility
1 Make sure that you logged in as SUPERVISOR (NetWare 2.xx
or 3.xx) or ADMIN (NetWare 4.xx or later).

2 Start BRAdmin Professional utility.

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3 One or more Print/Fax servers will appear in the list (the default
node names are BRN_xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last six
digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address)).
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing
out the Network configuration page. For information on how
to print the configuration page on your machine, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.

4 Select the Print/Fax 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 change the Netware Print Server Name. The
default NetWare Print server name will usually be
BRN_xxxxxx_P1 where xxxxxx is the Ethernet address of
the Print/Fax server. Be careful! Changing the name may
impact the configuration of other protocols because the print
server service names will be altered.

a If it is not already selected, select Queue Server as the
operating mode.

b Click the Change Bindery Queues button.
c Select the NetWare server which you wish to configure.
d Select the New Queue button and type in the queue name
which you wish to create.

e Once you have done that highlight the queue name you
created and click on the Add button.

f Click on Close and then OK.
Now exit the BRAdmin Professional utility. You are ready to print.

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Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Queue
Server) using BRAdmin Professional utility
1 Make sure that you logged in as ADMIN in NDS mode.
2 Start BRAdmin Professional utility.
3 One or more Print/Fax servers will appear in the list (the default
node names are BRN_xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last six
digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address)).
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing
out the printer configuration page. For information on how to
print the configuration page on your machine, see Resetting
the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on
page 13-4.

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 already selected, select Queue Server as the
operating mode.

b Select the correct NDS tree and NDS context (you can
manually enter this information, or by clicking on the down
arrow by the side of NDS tree and the Change button by the
side of NDS Context, you can let BRAdmin Professional utility
display your choices automatically). Once you have specified
this information, click on the Change NDS queues button.

c In the NetWare Print Queues screen select the appropriate
TREE and Context and then click the New Queue button.

d Enter the queue name and specify the volume name. If you
do not know the volume name, select the Browse button to
browse the NetWare volumes. When the information is
entered correctly, select the OK button.

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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 information in this
Window.

f Click on the Close button. Your Brother Print/Fax server will
now log into the appropriate NetWare server.
Now exit the BRAdmin Professional utility. You are ready to print.

Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Queue
Server) using Novell NWADMIN and BRAdmin
Professional utility
If you do not wish to use the Brother BRAdmin Professional utility
application solely to configure your NetWare file server, use the
following instructions for configuration using the NWADMIN
application in conjunction with the BRAdmin Professional utility.

1 Make sure that you are logged in as ADMIN in NDS mode on the
NetWare 4.1x (or later) file server and start the NWADMIN
application.

2 Select desired Context that will contain the Printer and then
click on Object from the menu bar and then Create. When you
get the New Object menu, select Printer and then OK.

3 Enter the name of the printer and select Create.
4 Select the desired Context that will contain the default print
queue, and then click on Object and Create to get the New
Object menu.

5 Select Print Queue and then OK. Make sure that Directory
Service Queue is selected and then type in a name for the
default print queue.

6 Click on the button to select the print queue volume. Change the
directory context if necessary, then select the desired volume
(from Available Objects) and click OK. Click Create to create
the print queue.
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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 Other/
Unknown. Click OK.

13 Change the context if required, select Object from the menu bar
and then Create. When you get the New Object menu, select
Print server and then OK.

14 Enter the name of the Print server and select Create.
Enter the NetWare Print server name of the Print/Fax server
exactly as it appeared in the NetWare tab of the BRAdmin
Professional utility (this will generally be the
BRN_xxxxxx_P1 default service name, unless you changed
the name).
You can find the current service name and MAC address by
printing out the machine configuration page. For information on
how to print the configuration page on your machine, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.
Important:
Do not assign a password to the Print server or it will not log in.

15 Double click on the name of your Print server. Click on
Assignments and then Add...

16 If necessary, change the directory context. Select the printer
you created in step 3 and click OK and then OK again.

17 Exit NWADMIN.

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18 Start the appropriate BRAdmin Professional utility, and select
the correct Printer/Fax 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/Fax 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 you want to enable queue server capabilities on services
other than the default NetWare services, you must define
new services that are enabled for NetWare and for the
desired port. Seethe Appendix in this manual for information
on how to do this.

21 Enter the NDS tree name (note that a Print/Fax server can
service both NDS and bindery queues).

22 Type in the name of the context where the Print server resides.
23 Exit the BRAdmin Professional utility making sure that you save
the changes that you have made. You are now ready to print.

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Creating a Network Print Server (NDS Remote
Printer) using Novell NWAdmin and BRAdmin
Professional utility
To configure a Brother Print/Fax server for remote printer mode with
NWADMIN (NetWare Administrator utility) and BRAdmin
Professional utility, you will need to perform the following steps:

1 Make sure that the PSERVER NLM (NetWare Loadable
Module) is loaded on your file server and that you are logged in
as ADMIN in NDS mode on the NetWare 4.1x file server.

2 Start NWADMIN by double clicking on the icon. Select the
desired Context that will contain the new printer.

3 Select Object from the menu bar and then Create. When you
get the New Object menu, select Printer and then OK.

4 Enter the name of the printer and select Create.
5 Double click on the Print server name of your PSERVER NLM.
Click on Assignments and then Add.

6 If necessary, change the directory context. Select the printer
you created and click OK. Note the number of the 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 Queue is selected, and then type in a name for the
default print queue.

9 Click on the button to select the print queue volume. Change the
directory context if necessary, then select the desired volume
(Objects) and click OK. Click Create to create the print queue.

10 Change context if required and then double click the name of the
printer you created previously.

11 Click Assignments and then Add.
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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 Professional utility, and select
the correct Print/Fax server you wish to configure (by default,
the node names is BRN_xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last six
digits of the Ethernet address (MAC address))
You can find the Node name and MAC address by printing
out the machine configuration page. For information on how
to print the configuration page on your Print/Fax server, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.

14 Double click the appropriate Print server. You will 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/Fax server Name and select
the number of the printer from step 6 as the Printer Number.
The same service assigned by NetWare Print server cannot
be used for both queue server mode and remote printer
mode. 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.

17 Click OK. And exit BRAdmin Professional utility.
You must now unload the PSERVER NLM from your NetWare file
server console and then reload it in order for the changes to take effect.

Other Sources of Information
1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on
network printing.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.
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Printing from a Macintosh®

Printing From a Macintosh® Using
AppleTalk and TCP/IP or Rendezvous
This chapter explains how to configure the PostScript driver on a
Network. For more information on how to configure the default Quick
Draw driver on a Network, see the Quick Setup Guide included with
the machine.

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 (also referred to as EtherTalk) protocol.
With the release of System 8.6 or later, Apple introduced a TCP/IP
printing capability. This allows Macintosh® users to send print jobs
using the TCP/IP protocol.
With the release of OS/X 10.2, Apple introduced support for
Rendezvous printing. Rendezvous supports automatic network
configuration. If you choose to use the Rendezvous features of your
Brother product, you usually do not need to configure any IP address
settings yourself.
For updated information on printing from a Macintosh® visit the
Brother Solutions web site at: http://solutions.brother.com

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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 to the printer and
then use a Web browser to change the name. Connect
to the machine using a web browser and then click on
Network Configuration. Enter the password (the
default password is access) then select Configure
AppleTalk. 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, see Resetting the Print/
Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on page
13-4.

6 The Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) protocol
automatically assigns an IP address from the range:
169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255. If you want to disable
the APIPA protocol, set APIPA to Off using the machine
control panel. For more information, see APIPA on page
10-9. If the APIPA protocol is disabled, the default IP
address of a Brother Print/Fax server is 192.0.0.192. To
change it, use the control panel, the BRAdmin
Professional utility, Web BRAdmin software or let your
DHCP server allocate an IP address to the machine.

Macintosh® Configuration (Mac OS® 8.6 - 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
LaserWriter 8 driver you must install it. Consult your Macintosh
documentation for instructions on how to do this.

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Before you try to use the Brother print server, you must first enable
the EtherTalk protocol from the Network Control Panel on the
Macintosh®. If the EtherTalk protocol is not selected, or the Network
Control Panel does not exist, you must use Apple's Network
Installer software to add these capabilities.
The appropriate PPD file supplied with your machine must first be
installed. Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your
computer. Select the Start Here icon, select your language and
follow the on-screen instructions for Install Software.

Figure 1 Typical Macintosh Installer
The above screenshot is from a Brother HL-7050 series printer
driver. However, you will see a similar screen for all Brother printers
that include a Macintosh printer driver.

How to Select the Print Server
(AppleTalk/EtherTalk)
Once the Print/Fax server is connected on your network and the
machine 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 Ethernet address (MAC address) should appear in the
Chooser.
You can find the service name and MAC address by printing
out the configuration page. For information on how to print
the configuration page on your print server, see Resetting the
Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on
page 13-4.
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1 Open the Chooser from the Apple Menu on the Macintosh®,
and then click on the LaserWriter icon (if necessary, select the
appropriate AppleTalk zone from the Network Control
Panel).

Figure 2 Macintosh Chooser

2 Click on the appropriate Print/Fax server and close the
Chooser program. You should now be able to print from the
Macintosh.
If you cannot see the Print/Fax server, first make sure that
your cabling is correct and that you have enabled EtherTalk
from your Macintosh Network Control Panel. You may also
need to force the print server into the correct AppleTalk zone
using the BRAdmin Professional utility or a web browser.

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How to Select the Print Server (TCP/IP)
Apple has developed the “Desktop Printer” utility. This can be
found from the Apple menu (this is only available from System 8.6
or later). When you run it you will see the following screen:

Figure 3 Selecting LPR Printing

1 Select the Printer (LPR) option and click OK. You will then
see the following:

Figure 4 Selecting the PPD and LPR Configuration
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2 At this point we must select the correct PPD file for the
machine and also configure the correct LPR information.
Click the Change button in the PostScript Printer
Description (PPD) File section and select the appropriate
PPD file for your model.

3 Now select the Change button below the LPR Printer
Selection text.

4 You must then enter the IP address and service name details
of the machine. When specifying the Queue, use the value
brn_xxxxxx_p1_at where xxxxxx are the last 6 digits of
the Ethernet address.

Figure 5 Entering the IP address and Queue
If you do not specify the correct value the machine may not print,
or it may not print the data correctly. Please ensure that the value
you enter here matches with the Service name of the machine.

5 Click OK to go back to the previous screen.

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6 You are now ready to create the printer for use. To do that,
click the Create button and you will see the following:

Figure 6 Saving the printer to the Desktop
(screen shown is from the HL-7050)

7 Enter the name of the printer in the Save desktop printer As:
option and click on Save.

8 We must now make this our default printer by clicking the
printer name once and then select Printing and Set Default
Printer.
Whenever you send a print job, the printer that you just created will
be used.

Macintosh Configuration
(OS X 10.1-10.2.1 or greater)
The appropriate PPD file supplied with your printer must be installed.
Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your computer. Select
the Start Here OSX and follow the on-screen instructions.

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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 Open the Applications folder.
3 Open the Utilities folder.
4 Open the Print Center Icon.
5 Click the Add Printer button.
6 Select AppleTalk.
7 Select BRN_XXXXXX_P1_AT and click the Add button.
For AppleTalk connections, the machine's AppleTalk service name is
BRN_XXXXXX_P1_AT, where XXXXXX is the last six digits of the
Ethernet address.
Printing the configuration page will allow you to confirm the MAC
address. For information on how to print the configuration page, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch)
on page 13-4.

8 From the Printer Model pull-down list select your model.
9 Click Add and the printer will be available from the Printer List.

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How to Select the Print Server (TCP/IP)
After installing the PPD, use the following steps to select the printer driver:

1 Turn the power of the printer ON.
2 Open the Applications folder.
3 Open the Utilities folder.
4 Open the Print Center Icon.
5 Click the Add Printer button.
6 Select LPR Printers using IP.
7 Enter the TCP/IP address of the printer into the LPR Printer's
Address box.
Printing the configuration page will allow you to confirm the TCP/IP
address. For information on how to print the configuration page, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch)
on page 13-4.

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 printer will be available from the Printer List.

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Changing the Configuration
From a Macintosh, the easiest way to change the machine or Print/
Fax server parameters is to use a web browser.
Simply connect to the machine using the format: http://
ip_address where ip_address is the address of the machine.

Other Sources of Information
1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on
network printing.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

3 For more information on web-based management, see chapter
9 of this user guide .

Rendezvous Printing
Rendezvous lets you create an instant network of computers and
smart devices just by connecting them to each other.
Rendezvous support allows a Rendezvous ready printer to
automatically configure itself to work in a OS X Rendezvous system.
You do not need to manually configure any IP address or network
settings 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.
Visit http://solutions.brother.com for the latest information on how to
set up Rendezvous printing for Mac OS® 10.2.

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1 Run the Print Center software and click the Add.

2 Select Rendezvous and any Rendezvous compatible
machines will be displayed.

If you are using OS X 10.2.1, three machine are listed. Select
any one of the machine listed.

3 Click the machine and then change the Printer Model to
"Brother". The PPD files that are installed on your Macintosh are

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displayed. Select the relevant PPD file.

4 The Rendezvous ready machine is displayed.
5 Click the machine and click the Make Default button to set the
printer as the default printer.The machine is now ready to print.

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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 that supports the Hewlett-Packard JetDirect card.
Quick Tips:

1 One way to print the details of all network settings is to print a
configuration page. For information on how to print the
configuration page, see Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to
factory settings (Test Switch) on page 13-4.
Because DLC is a non-routable protocol, there cannot be a
router between the print server and the sending computer.

Configuring DLC on Windows NT®4.0 and
Windows® 2000
To use DLC on Windows NT®4.0 and Windows® 2000, you must first
install the DLC protocol.

1 Log into Windows NT®4.0 with administrative privileges. Go to
the Windows NT®4.0 Control Panel and double click on the
Network icon. Windows® 2000 users select the properties of
the Local Area Connection.

2 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.

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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 nonIntel platform, specify the correct directory on your Windows
NT®4.0 CD-ROM and close the windows.

4 Reboot your system to make the change take effect. Windows®
2000 should 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 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 HewlettPackard 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 configuration page).
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing
out the configuration page. For information on how to print
the configuration page on your Print/Fax server, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.
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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 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.

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 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.

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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. For information on how to print the
configuration page on your print server, see Resetting the Print/
Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on page 13-4.

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 the operating systems that will be printing to it.

12 Select whether or not you want to print a test page, and then select
Finish.

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 vendor's 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®4.0 in the previous sections. The MAC
address (Ethernet address) of the Print/Fax server should
automatically appear during the configuration process.

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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 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 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 server.

Other Sources of Information
Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on network
printing.

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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 machine using the HTTP (Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol). You can get the following information from a
printer on your network using a web browser:

1 Printer status information.
2 Change Fax configuration items, such as Initial Setup. One
Touch Dial settings and Remote Fax.

3 You can also change network settings such as TCP/IP
information, Internet Fax address information, etc.

4 Software version information of the machine and print server.
5 Change network and machine configuration details.
You must use the TCP/IP protocol on your network and have a valid
IP address programmed into the Print/Fax server and your computer.
Quick Tips:

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2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

3 The default password for Brother print servers is access.
4 You can use a web browser on most computing platforms, for
example, Macintosh and Unix users are also able to connect to
the machine and manage it.

5 You can also use the BRAdmin Professional utility to manage
the printer and its network configuration.

How to connect to your machine using a Browser
Type http://printer’s IP Address / into your browser (you
can also use the NetBIOS name of the Print/Fax server, if you are in
a Microsoft Windows domain/Workgroup environment). Enter the
DNS name of the machine if connecting to a network that uses the
DNS protocol.

Password Information
Web Based Management offers two levels of password access.
Users are able to access to the General Setup, Fax settings, I-Fax
Settings and Lists and Reports. The default user name for Users is
user (case sensitive) and the default password is access.
Administrators are able to access all settings. The login name for the
Administrator is admin (case sensitive) and the default password is
access.

Other Sources of Information
1 Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on
network printing.

2 To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see
Chapter 11 of this User’s Guide.

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10 Front Panel Setup Menu
10

LAN Main Setup Menu
With the Network (LAN) Board (NC-9100h Print/Fax Server)
installed, you can connect your machine into the network to use the
Internet FAX, Network Scanner and Network Printer.

1 Install the Network (LAN) Board (NC-9100h). For more
information, see Chapter 23 of User’s Guide included with the
machine.

2 Set up the machine for your Network using the control panel.
You can also set up using BRAdmin, Web BRAdmin software
and so on. For more information, see Chapter 11 or visit at:
http://solutions.brother.com.
The LAN menu selections allow you to setup the Brother DCP/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 seven main selections: Setup TCP/IP, Setup
Internet, Setup Mail RX, Setup Mail TX, Setup Relay, Setup Misc
and Scan to E-mail. 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 DCP/
MFC using your favorite web browser. For added flexibility, the DCP/
MFC is supplied with the BRAdmin Professional Windows® software,
which also can be used to configure many aspects of the NC-9100h.

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Setup TCP/IP
This menu has nine sections: Boot Method, IP Address, Subnet
Mask, Gateway, Host Name, WINS Config, WINS Server, DNS
Server and APIPA.

BOOT Method
1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 1.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 1.
2 Press

to select Auto, Static, RARP, BOOTP or

DHCP.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Static mode
In this mode the DCP/MFC IP address must be manually assigned.
Once entered the IP address is locked to the assigned address.
Auto mode
In this mode, the machine 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 machine, then the IP address supplied by the
DHCP server will used. If no DHCP server is available, then the
machine will scan for a BOOTP server. If a BOOTP server is
available, and it is configured correctly, the machine will take its IP
address from the BOOTP server. After it is initially powered ON, it
may take a few minutes for the machine to scan the network for a
server.
The machine supports “POWER SAVE mode” and you are
using the AUTO Boot mode, POWER SAVE must be set to
OFF.

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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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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 machine 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® 2000/XP,
Windows NT®4.0 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 front panel, Web browser or by
using the BRAdmin application.

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IP Address
This field displays the current IP address of the DCP/MFC. If you
have selected a BOOT Method of STATIC, enter the IP address that
you wish to assign to the DCP/MFC (check with your network
manager for the IP address to use). If you have selected a method
other than STATIC, the DCP/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 DCP/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.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 2.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 2.
2 Select 1 to change. Enter the IP address.
3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
When the BOOT METHOD is set to “AUTO”, the DCP/MFC
cannot receive IP address from a BOOTP server in
Windows® 2000. So please ensure that you use DHCP for
Windows® 2000 server.

Subnet Mask
This field displays the current subnet mask used by the DCP/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.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 3.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 3.
2 Select 1 to change. Enter the Subnet Mask address.
3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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Gateway
This field displays the current gateway or router address used by the
DCP/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.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 4.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 4.
2 Select 1 to change. Enter the Gateway address.
3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
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).

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 5.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 5.
2 Select 1 to change. Enter the Host Name.
3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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WINS CONFIG
This selection controls how the DCP/MFC obtains the IP address for
the WINS Server.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 6.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 6.
2 Press

to select Auto or Static.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
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.

WINS Server
1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 7.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 7.
2 Press

to select Primary or secondary.

3 Press Set.
4 Enter the WINS Server address.
5 Press Set.
6 Press Stop/Exit.
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.

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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 DCP/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.

DNS Server
1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 8.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 8.
2 Press

to select Primary or Secondary.

3 Press Set.
4 Enter the DNS Server address.
5 Press Set.
6 Press Stop/Exit.
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 DCP/MFC will contact the Secondary DNS
server.

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APIPA
The setting of On will cause the print server to automatically allocate
a Link-Local IP address in the range (169.254.1.0 169.254.254.255) when the print/fax server cannot obtain an IP
address through the BOOT Method you have set (Menu, 6, 1).
Selecting Off means the IP address doesn’t change, when the print/
fax server cannot obtain an IP address through the BOOT Method
you have set

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 1, 9.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 1, 9.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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Setup Internet (For MFC only)
This menu has five selections: Mail Address, SMTP Server, POP3
Server, Mailbox Name and Mailbox Pwd. You may find that it is
more convenient to use your favorite web browser to configure these
settings.

Mail Address
1 Press Menu, 6, 2, 1.
2 Select 1 to change. Enter the mail address. Press Set.
3 Press Stop/Exit.
Entering text
You can access the character you want by pressing the appropriate
number key repeatedly.
Key

Once

Twice

Three times

Four times

To change the mode between upper case and lower case for
entering the E-mail / I-Fax address press Shift and 3.
Making corrections:
If you entered a letter incorrectly and want to change it, press
to
move the cursor under the incorrect character. Then press Clear/
Back. The letter above the cursor will be deleted. Re-enter the
correct character.

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Repeating letters:
If you need to enter a character assigned to the same key as the
previous character, press
move the cursor to the right.
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 MFC using a web
browser and specify the E-mail address information through Web
Based Management.

SMTP Server
This field displays the Host Name or IP address of an SMTP mail
server (outgoing E-mail Server) on your network.
(Ex, mailhost.brothermail.net -or- 192.000.000.001)

1 Press Menu, 6, 2, 2.
2 Press

to select Name or IP Address.

3 Enter the SMTP SERVER Address.
4 Press Set.
5 Press Stop/Exit.
POP3 Server
1 Press Menu, 6, 2, 3.
2 Press

to select Name or IP Address.

3 Enter the POP3 Server Address.
4 Press Set.
5 Press Stop/Exit.
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POP3 Server address
This field displays the Host Name or IP address of the POP3 server
(incoming E-mail server) used by the Brother MFC. This address is
necessary for the Internet Fax features to function correctly.
(Ex, mailhost.brothermail.net -or- 192.000.000.001)

Mailbox Name
1 Press Menu, 6, 2, 4.
2 Enter the user account name assigned to the Brother MFC to
login to the POP3 Server.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Mailbox Pwd
1 Press Menu, 6, 2, 5.
2 Enter the user password assigned to the MFC to login to the
POP3 Server. Please note that this password is case sensitive.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Set again to verify the password.
5 Press Stop/Exit.

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Setup Mail RX (For MFC only)
This menu has Five selections Auto Polling, Poll Frequency,
Header, Del Error Mail and Notification.

Auto Polling
When set to On the MFC automatically will check the POP3 server
for new messages. “No Mail” will be displayed if there are no E-mail
messages when the POP3 server is polled.

1 Press Menu, 6, 3, 1.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Poll Frequency
Sets the interval for checking for new messages on the POP3 server
(default is 10Min).

1 Press Menu, 6, 3, 2.
2 Enter the polling frequency.
3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Header
This selection allows the contents of the mail header to be printed
when the received message is printed (Subject+From+To or All
or None).

1 Press Menu, 6, 3, 3.
2 Press

to select All or Subject+From+To or

None.

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3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Del Error Mail
When set to On, the MFC automatically deletes error mails that the
MFC can not receive from the POP server.

1 Press Menu, 6, 3, 4.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Notification
Notification feature allows a receive notification message to be
transmitted to the sending station to indicate successful reception of
the I-Fax.
“On” send notification mail to all I-Fax machines only sends an E-mail
to I-Fax that supports the “MDN” specification.

1 Press Menu, 6, 3, 5.
2 Press

to select On or MDN or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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Setup Mail TX (For MFC only)
This menu has three selections Sender Subject, Size Limit and
Notification.

Sender Subject
This field displays the subject that is attached to the Internet Fax data
being sent from the Brother MFC to a PC (default is “Internet Fax
Job”).

1 Press Menu, 6, 4, 1.
2 Select 1 to change the Sender Subject—OR—2 to exit.
3 Enter the subject information.
4 Press Set.
5 Press Stop/Exit.
Size Limit
Some E-mail servers do not allow you to send large E-mail
documents. The MFC may display Out of Memory when trying to
send E-mail documents (the System Administrator will often place a
limit on the maximum E-mail size). With this function enabled, the
MFC will display Out of Memory when trying to send E-mail
documents over 1Mbyte in size. The document will not be sent and
an error report will be printed. The document you are sending should
be separated into smaller documents that will be accepted by the
mail server. (Ex. A 42 page document of the ITU-T Test Chart#1 test
chart is approximately 1Mbyte in size).

1 Press Menu, 6, 4, 2.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Notification
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Notification feature when switched to On sends two fields of data in
addition to the image data which requests a notification from the
receiving station for successful reception. The receiving I-Fax station
must support the MDN standard in order to be able to understand the
request and consequently submit a notification message confirming
successful receipt of the I-Fax.

1 Press Menu, 6, 4, 3.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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Setup Relay (For MFC only)
This menu has three selections RLY Broadcast, Relay Domain and
Relay Report. For more information on Relay Broadcast, see
Chapter 12 of this User’s Guide.

Rly Broadcast
This function allows the MFC to receive a document over the
Internet, and then relay it to other fax machines through conventional
analog landlines

1 Press Menu, 6, 5, 1.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Relay Domain
You can register the Domain Names (Max.10) that are allowed to
request a Relay Broadcast.

1 Press Menu, 6, 5, 2.
2 Press

to select the Relay Domain (01 - 10).

3 Press Set.
4 Enter the Relay Domain name for the Domain that is being
allowed to request a Relay Broadcast.

5 Press Set.
6 Press Stop/Exit.

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Relay Report
Relay Broadcast Report can be printed at the MFC used as the Relay
Station for all Relay Broadcasts. Also, when the MFC is used with the
Brother Network PC Fax software the MFC is acting as a Relay
Station for fax transmissions from the network so a Relay Report can
also be printed for confirmation of sent network faxes. (For US /
Canada only)
Its primary function is to print reports of Relay Broadcasts from
external sources through the MFC. Please note that this is not
possible without the consent of the Relaying Station as permission in
the form of Relay Domain has to be given to external parties.

1 Press Menu, 6, 5, 3.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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Setup Misc.
Netware
You can select to switch the NetWare feature “On”, this allows you
specify the Frame Type is item 2.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 1.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 1.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Net Frame
1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 2.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 2.
2 Press

to select Auto/8023/ENET/8022/SNAP.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Auto sets the Frame type to automatic, the network card will detect
the frame type being used by the NetWare server (Recommended).
8023 sets the Frame type to Ethernet 802.3
ENET sets the Frame Type to Ethernet II
8022 sets the Frame type to Ethernet 802.2
SNAP sets the Frame type to Ethernet SNAP
* NET Frame Setting is available when NetWare is On.

AppleTalk
AppleTalk protocol is used with Macintosh Networks. If you are using
your DCP/MFC on a Macintosh network please select to On.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 3.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 3.
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2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
DLC/LLC
1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 4.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 4.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Net BIOS/IP
The NC-9100h Print / Fax Server supports SMB (Server Message
Block) over the TCP/IP protocol via the NetBIOS interface. This
means that just like regular Windows® PC's the Brother DCP/MFC
can appear in your network neighborhood. The main advantage of
NetBIOS printing is that you are able to print from legacy DOS
applications that are running on PC’s that are connected to Microsoft
networks.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 5.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 5.
2 Press

to select On or Off.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Ethernet
Ethernet link mode. Auto allows the print server to operate in
100BaseTX full or half duplex, or in 10BaseT half duplex mode by
auto negotiation.
100BaseTX Full Duplex (100B-FD) or Half Duplex (100B-HD) and
10BaseT Full Duplex (10B-FD) or Half Duplex (10B-HD) fix the print
server link mode. This change is valid after the print server has been
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reset.
If you incorrectly set this value, you may not be able to
communicate with your print server.

1 (For MFC) Press Menu, 6, 6, 6.
(For DCP) Press Menu, 4, 2, 6.
2 Press

or
to select Auto/100B-FD/100B-HD/
10B-FD/10B-HD.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.
Time Zone
This field displays the time zone you can set for your country. The
time is the difference between your location and Greenwich Mean
Time. This time will be shown on documents received via the
Internet. For example the Time Zone for Eastern Time in the USA
and Canada is GMT-05:00.

1 Press Menu, 6, 6, 7.
2 Press

to select the time.

3 Press Set to accept the selection.
4 Press Stop/Exit to exit the configuration menu.
Windows® Time Zone Setting
You can determine the time difference for you location by using the
Time Zone setting in Windows®.

1 Click on Start.
2 Select Settings / Control Panel.
3 Double click on Date/Time.
4 Select Time Zone.
Verify your time zone setting from the pull-down menu (this menu
displays the time difference from GMT).
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User Setting List (For MFC only)
This feature prints a report listing all the current user settings. The
NC-9100h Print / Fax Server Settings will be printed on the second
page of the report.

1 Press Menu, 5, 5.
2 Press Start.
3 Press Stop/Exit.

Setup Scan to E-mail (For MFC only)
Color File Type for Scan to E-mail
You can select the default file type for Scan to E-mail (E-mail server)
function.
1 Press Menu, 6, 7.

2 Press

to select PDF or JPEG.

3 Press Set.
4 Press Stop/Exit.

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11 TCP/IP Configuration
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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) protocol automatically
assigns an IP address from the range: 169.254.1.0 to
169.254.254.255. If the APIPA protocol is disabled, the default IP
address of a Brother print server is 192.0.0.192. However, you can
easily change this IP address number to match with the IP address
details of your network. This can be done in any of the following
ways:
■ From your machine’s control panel settings.
■ BRAdmin Professional utility (for Windows® 95/98/Me/ 2000/XP
and Windows NT®4.0 using the IPX/SPX or TCP/IP protocols).
■ DHCP, APIPA, Reverse ARP (rarp) or BOOTP.
■ The ARP command.
■ HTTP (Web browser).
■ Other SNMP based management utility.
■ Web BRAdmin software
These configuration methods are described in the following paragraphs.
The IP address you assign to the Print/Fax server must be on
the same logical network as your host computers. If it is not,
you must properly configure the subnet mask and the router
(gateway).
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Using the machine control panel to allocate
an IP address (Models with LCD panels only)
For details on how to configure IP address information using the
machine control panel , see chapter 10 of this user guide. By using
the control panel on the machine, you can program the IP address
details at the same time that other machine parameters are
configured.

Changing the IP Address using the BRAdmin
Professional utility
Please use BRAdmin Professional utility version on the CDROM that was supplied with your Brother product or
later.Please visit http://solutions.brother.com to download
the latest Brother BRAdmin Professional utility version.
Start the BRAdmin Professional utility (from Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0).

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The BRAdmin Professional utility can use the IPX/SPX or TCP/IP
protocols to communicate with the Brother Print/Fax server.
If you wish to use the TCP/IP protocol to manage the Print/Fax server
make sure that the Print/Fax server has a valid IP address. If you are
not using DHCP, BOOTP or RARP, you will want to change the IP
address.There are two ways to change the IP address using the
BRAdmin Professional utility:
■ Use the IPX/SPX protocol.
■ Use the TCP/IP protocol and let BRAdmin Professional utility find
the Brother Print/Fax server as an unconfigured device.

Using BRAdmin Professional utility 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/Fax server name (the default node name is
BRN_xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the
Ethernet address (MAC address)).
If you cannot find your server name, select the Device menu and
choose Search Active Devices (you can also press the F4 key) and
try again.
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing
out the machine configuration page. For information on how
to print the configuration page on your Print/Fax server, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4.

3 Select the Print/Fax 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 TCP/IP tab and set the IP address, Subnet mask
and Gateway as needed.
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5 In the IP Config box, click the Static radio button.
6 Click OK.
Restart the print server by using BRAdmin Professional utility or Web
Browser. If you are not sure how to restart the print server, you may
simply turn the machine’s power switch off, and then switch it on.

Using BRAdmin Professional utility and the TCP/
IP Protocol to set the IP address
If your PC is using the TCP/IP protocol, do the following:

1 Select TCP/IP filter in the left frame of the main window.
2 Select the Device menu and choose the Search Active
Devices.
If the Print/Fax server is set to its factory default settings, it
will not appear in the BRAdmin Professional utility screen.
However, selecting the Search Active Devices option will
force the BRAdmin Professional utility to find the device as
an unconfigured device.

3 Select the Devices menu and choose Setup Unconfigured
Devices.

4 Select the MAC address of your Print/Fax server and click the
Configure button.
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the
machine configuration page. For information on how to print the
configuration page on your Print/Fax server, see Resetting the Print/
Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch) on page 13-4.

5 Enter the IP address, Subnet mask and Gateway (if needed)
of your Print/Fax server.

6 Click OK then select Close.
7 With the correctly programmed IP address, you will see the
Brother Print/Fax server in the device list.
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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, XP 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 so that the Print/Fax server has a static IP address.
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 machine’s control panel, a Web browser
or by using the BRAdmin Professional utility.

Using APIPA to Configure the IP Address
With Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), DHCP clients
automatically configure an IP address and subnet mask when a
DHCP server is not available. The device chooses it's own IP
address in the range 169.254.1.0 through to 169.254.254.255. The
subnet mask is automatically set to 255.255.0.0 and the gateway
address is set to 0.0.0.0.
By default, the APIPA protocol is enabled.

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Using ARP to Configure the Print/Fax
Server IP Address
If you are unable to use the BRAdmin Professional utility or the
FAX\MFC’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 arp enter the following command at the
command prompt:
arp -s ipaddress ethernetaddress
Where ethernetaddress is the Ethernet address (MAC address)
of the Print/Fax server and ipaddress is the IP address of the Print/
Fax server. For example:
Windows® Systems
Windows® Systems require the hyphen “-” character between each
digit of the Ethernet address.
arp -s 192.189.207.2 00-80-77-31-01-07

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Unix/Linux Systems
Typically, Unix systems require the colon “:” character between
each digit of the Ethernet address.
arp -s 192.189.207.2 00:80:77:31:01:07
You must be on the same Ethernet segment (that is, there cannot
be a router between the Print/Fax server and operating system) to
use the arp -s command.
If there is a router, you may use BOOTP or other methods
described in this chapter to enter the IP address.
If your Administrator has configured the system to deliver IP
addresses using BOOTP, DHCP or RARP your Brother Print/Fax
server can receive an IP address from any one of these IP
address allocation systems. In which case, you will not need to
use the ARP command. The ARP command only works once. For
security reasons, once you have successfully configured the IP
address of a Brother Print/Fax server using the ARP command,
you cannot use the ARP command again to change the address.
The Print/Fax server will ignore any attempts to do this. If you wish
to change the IP address again, use a Web Browser, the
machine’s control panel or factory reset the Print/Fax server
(which will then allow you to use the ARP command again).
To configure the Print/Fax server and to verify the connection,
enter the following command ping ipaddress where
ipaddress is the IP address of the Print/Fax server. For
example, ping 192.189.207.2.

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Using RARP to Configure the IP Address
The Brother Print/Fax 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 to the following:
00:80:77:31:01:07

BRN_310107

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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:

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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 machine is powered on.

Other Sources of Information
Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on TCP/IP
protocol.

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12 Internet FAX (MFC Only)
12

Overview
Internet Faxing (I-FAX) allows you to send and receive FAX
documents using the Internet as the transport mechanism.
Documents are transmitted in E-mail messages as attached TIFF-F
files. This means that PC's are also able to receive and send
documents, providing that the PC has as an application that can
generate and view TIFF-F files, you can use Microsoft® Imaging or a
TIFF-F viewer application [Pages Viewer] is available as a download
from the Brother Web site http://www.brother.com. Any documents
sent via the MFC will automatically be converted into a TIFF-F
format. If you wish to send and receive messages to and from your
MFC, your mail application on the PC must be able to support the
MIME format.
E-mail
Relay
Fax (G3 TX)

Internet

Internet
Fax
Internet

E-mail

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Relay
E-mail

Getting Connected
Before sending or receiving an Internet Fax you must configure your
Brother MFC to communicate with your network and mail server. You
must ensure the following: a correctly configured IP address for your
MFC, an E-mail address for your MFC, the mail server(s) IP address,
mailbox name and password for your Brother MFC. If you are unsure
of any of these items, please contact your systems administrator. For
details of how to configure this information, refer to the Web Based
Management section (Internet Settings) of this User’s Guide.

Front Panel Key Functions
Shift + 1
Used to change input mode. You can use Dial Pad keys as Standard
alphabet character keys.

Dial Pad
Used to enter Standard Alpha characters (28 letters), as well as @.
space ! “ # % & ’ () + / : ; < > = ? [ ] ^ - $ , * _
and Numbers.

Shift + 3
To change between upper case and lower case for entering the email / I-Fax address.
or
Moves the LCD cursor to the left or right when you enter the texts.

Set
Used to store multiple numbers.

Start
Begins transmitting the document.

Stop/Exit
Deletes entered data and stops the scanning or transmitting process.

One-touch / Speed-Dial / Group Dial
These functions work the same way as with conventional MFC’s.
However, please note that you cannot use chain dialling for E-mail
addresses.

Shift + Start
Used to receive E-mail from the POP3 server manually.
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Sending an Internet Fax
Sending an Internet Fax is the same as sending a normal Fax. If you
have already programmed the addresses of the Internet Fax
receivers into the MFC as Speed-Dial locations, you can send the
Internet Fax by loading the document into the MFC, use the Fax
Resolution key to set the preferred resolution and select a SpeedDial number and pressing Start.
This will differ depending on the whether your MFC contains
Speed-Dial keys or includes Navigator Keys.
If you wish to manually enter the Internet Fax Address load the
document into the MFC and press Shift and 1 simultaneously to
change into the “alphabet” dialling mode.
To manually enter the Internet Fax address, see Manually Entering
Text on this page..
Internet Fax specification does not support color resolutions
and files types.

Manually Entering Text
Press Shift and 1 simultaneously to change into the “alphabet”
dialling mode.
You can now use the Dial Pad to dial the E-mail address. Refer to the
following table: Most number keys have three or four letters printed
above them. The keys for 0, #, * don’t have printed letters because
they are used for special characters.

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By pressing the appropriate number key the correct number of times,
you can access the character you want.
Key

Once

Twice

Three times

Four times

If you want to enter a blank space, press

twice.

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.
Making corrections:
If you entered a letter incorrectly and want to change it, press
to
move the cursor under the incorrect character. Then press Clear/
Back. The letter above the cursor will be deleted. Re-enter the
correct character.
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) ! “ # $ % & ’ () * + , - . /

Press # for

:;<=>?@[]^_

Press Ø for

É À È Ê Î Ç Ë Ö 0 (For US and Canada users)
Ä Ë Ö Ü À Ç È E 0 (For other users)

As you enter the Internet Fax address, it will appear character by
character on the LCD panel.
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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.

1 Press Start to send the document.
After the document is scanned, it is transmitted to the Recipient
Internet Fax Machine automatically via your SMTP server. You can
cancel the send operation by pressing the Stop/Exit button during
scanning. After the transmission is finished, the machine will return
to standby mode.
Some E-mail servers do not allow you to send large E-mail
documents (the System Administrator will often place a limit on the
maximum E-mail size). You can enable the Limit Size of the Sent
Mail feature. The machine will display Out of Memory when trying
to send E-mail documents over 1Mbyte in size. The document will
not be sent and an error report will be printed. The document you are
sending should be separated into smaller documents that will be
accepted by the mail server. You can turn on this feature through the
Web Management utility or the LAN function mode.

Receiving E-mail or Internet Fax
There are 2 ways you can receive E-mail messages:
■ POP3 receiving at regular intervals
■ POP3 receiving (manually initiated)
Using POP3 receiving the MFC must poll the E-mail server to receive
the print jobs. This polling can occur at set intervals (for example, you
can configure the MFC to poll the E-mail server at 10 minute
intervals) or you can manually poll the server by pressing the Shift
+ Start button.
If your MFC starts to receive E-mail print jobs, the LCD panel will
reflect this activity. For example, you will see Receiving on the
LCD panel followed by “xx MAIL(S)”. If you press the Shift + Start
buttons to manually poll the E-mail server for E-mail print jobs and
there are no mail documents waiting to be printed, the MFC will
display No Mail on the LCD panel for two seconds.
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If your machine is out of paper when receiving data, the received
data will be held in the MFC's memory. This data will be printed
automatically after paper is re-inserted into the machine. (For
European, Asian and Oceanian MFCs, Memory receive must be
switched “ON”.)
If the received mail is not in a plain text format or an attached file is
not in the TIFF-F format, the following error message will be printed:
ATTACHED FILE FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED. FILE
NAME:XXXXXX.doc If the received mail is too large, the following
error message will be printed: E-MAIL FILE TOO LARGE. If Delete
POP Receive Error Mail is ON (default) then error mail is
automatically deleted from the E-mail Server.

Receiving an Internet Fax to a PC
When a PC receives an Internet Fax document, the document is
attached to a mail message that informs the PC that it is
receiving a document from an Internet Fax. This is notified in
the Subject field of the received mail message.
If the PC to which you wish to send a document is not running
Windows® 95/ 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0
operating system, please inform the PC's owner that software must
be downloaded for documents in the TIFF-F format to be viewed.
You can download a TIFF-F viewer from the Brother Web site http:/
/www.solutions.brother.com. You can also use “ Microsoft®
Imaging” that is supplied with Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and
Windows NT®4.0 but some older versions of Windows® 95 do not
support viewing TIFF-F documents.

Forwarding Received E-mail and Fax Messages
You can forward received E-mail or standard fax messages to
another E-mail address or fax machine. Received messages can be
forwarded via E-mail to a PC or Internet Fax. They can also be
forwarded via standard phone lines to another MFC.
Please see User’s Guide included with the machine to check that this
feature is supported. This function is not available for color fax
documents.
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This can be done using the Web Management Utility or through the
front panel. The steps for configuring Fax Forward can be found in
the User’s Guide supplied with your MFC.

Relay Broadcasting
This function allows the Brother MFC to receive a document over the
Internet, and then relay it to other fax machines through conventional
telephone lines.
If you wish to use your MFC as a relay broadcast device, you must
specify the domain name that you trust at the MFC, in other words,
the portion of the domain after the ‘@’ sign.
A trusted domain refers to the E-mail address. For example, if the
other party’s address is bob@brother.com, then we identify the
domain as brother.com. If the E-mail address is jack@brother.co.uk,
then we identify the domain as brother.co.uk.
Use care in selecting a trusted domain since any user on a trusted
domain will be able to send a Relay Broadcast. You can register up
to 10 domain names.
Relay Broadcast can support the relay of a document up to a
maximum of 48 fax machines through conventional telephone lines.

Relay Broadcast from a MFC
FAX@brother.com

UKFAX@brother.co.uk

123456789

INTERNET

UKFAX@brother.co.uk (fax#123456789)

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Your MFC has an E-mail address of FAX@brother.com, you wish to
send a document from this machine to another MFC in England with
an E-mail address of UKFAX@brother.co.uk, this machine will then
forward the document to a standard fax machine using a
conventional telephone line. If your E-mail address is
FAX@brother.com, you must configure a trusted domain name of
brother.com on the machine in England that will broadcast the
document to the conventional fax machine. If you do not enter the
domain name information, then the machine in the middle (the
machine that will broadcast the document) will not trust any internet
jobs that it receives from the MFC in the @brother.com domain.
After the trusted domain is set you can send the document from your
MFC [I.E. FAX@brother.com] by entering the E-mail address of the
MFC [I.E. UKFAX@brother.co.uk] that will forward the document
followed by the phone number of the fax that will receive the
document. The following is an example of how to enter the E-mail
address and phone number.
UKFAX@brother.co.uk(fax#123456789)
E-mail address

Fax Phone Number
The word “fax#” must be
included with the phone
number inside the parenthesis.

Sending to multiple phone numbers:
If you want to have the document relayed to more than one standard
fax machine the address can be entered using the following method:

1 Enter the phone number of the first Fax machine
UKFAX@brother.co.uk(Fax#123).

2 Press the “Set” key.
3 Enter the phone number of the second Fax machine
UKFAX@brother.co.uk(Fax#456).

4 Press Start.

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Relay Broadcast from a PC
Your PC

UKFAX@brother.co.uk

123456789

INTERNET

UKFAX@brother.co.uk (fax#123456789)

You can also send E-mail from your PC and have it relayed to a
conventional FAX machine. The method of entering the phone
number of the conventional FAX machine that will receive the
relayed E-mail will vary depending on the mail application you are
using. The following are some examples of different mail
applications:
Some E-mail applications do not support sending to multiple phone
numbers. If your E-mail application cannot support multiple phone
numbers you will only be able to relay to one Fax machine at a time.
Enter the address of the relay MFC and phone number of the FAX in
the “TO” box using the same method used when sending from an
MFC.
UKFAX@brother.co.uk(fax#123456789)
Outlook 97/98/2000/XP:
For Outlook 97/98/2000 and XP the address information must be
entered into the address book as follows:
Name: fax#123456789
E-mail Address: UKFAX@brother.co.uk

TX Verification Mail
Transmission Verification Mail supports two separate functions.
Verification Mail for sending allows you request notification from the
receiving station that the I-Fax or E-mail was received and
processed. Verification Mail for receiving allows you to transmit a
default report back to the sending station after successfully receiving
and processing an I-Fax or E-mail.
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To use this feature you must set the Notification option within the
Setup Mail RX and Setup Mail TX options.

Setup Mail (TX)
You can set the Notification option in the Setup Mail TX option to
either ON or OFF. When switched to ON an additional field of
information is sent with the image data. This field is named MDN.
MDN
Mail Disposition Notification - This field requests the status of the IFax / E-mail message after delivery through the SMTP (send mail
transfer protocol) transport system. Once the message has arrived
at the Receiving station this data is used when the MFC or user
reads or prints the received I-Fax or E-mail. For example, if the
message is opened for reading or is printed the receiving station
sends back a notification to the original sending machine or user.
The receiving station must support the MDN field in order to be able
to send a notification report, otherwise the request will be ignored.

Setup Mail (RX)
There are three possible settings for this option ON/MDN/OFF.
Receive Notification “ON”
When switched to “ON” a fixed message is sent back to the sending
station to indicate successful reception and processing of the
message. These fixed messages depend on the operation requested
by the sending station.
Report messages consist of
SUCCESS : Received From
Receive Notification “MDN”
When switched to “MDN” a report as described above is sent back to
the sending station if the originating station sent the “MDN” field to
request confirmation.
Receive Notification “OFF”
OFF - Switches all forms of receive notification OFF, no messages
are send back to the sending station regardless of the request.
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Error mail
If there is a mail delivery error while sending an Internet Fax, the mail
server will send an error message back to the MFC and the error
message will be printed. If there is an error while receiving mail, an
error message will be printed (Example: “The message being sent to
the MFC was not in a TIFF-F format.”).

Important information on Internet Fax
Internet Fax Communication on a LAN system is basically the same
as communication via E-mail; however, it is different from Fax
communication using standard phone lines. The following is
important information for using Internet Fax:
■ Factors such as the receiver’s location, structure of the LAN
system, and how busy the circuit (such as the internet) is, may
cause the system to take a long time to send back an error mail.
(normally 20 sec. to 30 sec.).
■ In the case of transmission through the Internet, due to its low level
of security, we recommend that you use standard phone lines to
send confidential documents.
■ If the receiver’s mail system is not compatible with the MIME
format, you cannot transmit a document to the receiver.
Depending on receiver’s server, there may be some cases in
which the error mail will not be sent back.
■ If the size of a document’s image data is huge, there is a possibility
of unsuccessful transmission.
■ You cannot change font and character size of Internet mail that
you received.

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13 Troubleshooting
13

Overview
This chapter describes procedures for troubleshooting problems you
may encounter with a Brother Print/Fax server, it is divided into the
following sections:

1 Installation Problems
2 Intermittent Problems
3 Protocol-Specific Troubleshooting
4 Internet FAX Troubleshooting

Installation problems
If you cannot print over the network, check the following:

1 Make sure that the machine is powered on, is on-line and ready
to print.
Verify that the machine and the configuration are good by
printing the machine configuration page. For more information,
see Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4. 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.

b In this event, try to restore the factory default settings of the
Print/Fax server. To learn how to reset the print server, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test
Switch) on page 13-4. Once you have done that, switch the
machine off and then on again, and try to print out the
configuration page.

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2 If the configuration page prints but you cannot print documents,
try the following
If none of the following steps are successful, there is almost
certainly a hardware or network problem!

a If you are using TCP/IP:
Try pinging the Print/Fax server from the host operating
system command prompt with the command:
ping ipaddress
Where ipaddress is the Print/Fax server IP address (note
that in some instances it can take up to two minutes for the
Print/Fax server to load its IP address after setting the IP
address). If a successful response is received, then proceed
to the UNIX, TCP/IP Windows NT®4.0/LAN Server,
Windows®98/95/Me Peer to Peer (LPR), Internet Printing or
Web Browser troubleshooting section. Otherwise, proceed to
step 3, and then go to TCP/IP Troubleshooting section.

b If you are using Novell system:
Verify that the Print server can be seen on the network. To do
this, login as the SUPERVISOR (not as someone with
supervisor privileges) or ADMIN (for Netware 4 or later
servers), go into PCONSOLE or NWADMIN, select PRINT
SERVER INFORMATION, and select the name of the Print
server (make sure that you have entered the Print server
name). If you can see Print Server Status and
Control in the menu, then the Brother Print/Fax server is
visible to the network, proceed to the Novel NetWare
Installation Troubleshooting Section. Otherwise, go to step 3.

c If you are running AppleTalk for Macintosh:
In case of using Postscript driver make sure that you can see
the Print/Fax server name under the LaserWriter 8 icon in the
Chooser. If it is visible, then the connection is good, so
proceed to the AppleTalk for Macintosh Section. Otherwise,
go to step 3.
If you use the Rendevous function, please visit the Brother
Solutions Center web site on: http://solutions.brother.com

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3 If you cannot make any of the connections in step 2, check the
following:

a Make sure the machine is powered on and on-line.
b Check the cabling, network connection, and print out a
configuration page in the Network STATISTICS information to
see if bytes are being transmitted and received.

c Check to see if there is any LED activity.
The NC-9100h Print/Fax server has two LEDs on the back panel
of the machine. The upper side LED shows Link/Speed status.
The lower side LED shows Activity (Receive/Transmit) status.
■ No light:
If the both of two LEDs are off, then the Print/Fax server is not
connected to the network.
■ Link/Speed LED is orange: Fast Ethernet
The Link/Speed LED will be orange if the Print/Fax server is
connected to a 100BaseTX Fast Ethernet network.
■ Link/Speed LED is green: 10BaseT Ethernet
The Link/Speed LED will be green if the Print/Fax server is
connected to a 10BaseT Ethernet network.

4 If you are using a repeater or hub, make sure that SQE
(heartbeat) is turned off at the hub (if applicable). Also, if you
have a hub or multi-port repeater, verify that the hub or repeater
port is good by trying the Print/Fax server on a different port or
on the other hub or multi-port repeater.

5 If you have a bridge or router located between the Print/Fax
server and host computer, make sure that the device is set up
to allow the Print/Fax server to send and receive data from the
host. For example, a bridge can be set up to only allow certain
types of Ethernet addresses to pass through (a process known
as filtering); therefore, such a bridge must be configured to allow
Brother Print/Fax server addresses. Likewise, a router can be
set up to pass only certain protocols, so be sure that the desired
protocol can be passed through to the Print/Fax server.

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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.

Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory
settings (Test Switch)
■ Short push:
Prints a network configuration page.
■ Long push (more than 5 seconds):
Resets the network configuration back to factory default setting.
Test Switch
LED
Ethernet
RJ-45
LED

Intermittent Problems
If the Print/Fax server and printer start up OK, but you intermittently
have problems printing, check the following:

1 If you can print small jobs but large graphics jobs are distorted
or incomplete, make sure that you have adequate memory in
your printer and 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.

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TCP/IP Troubleshooting
If you are using TCP/IP and cannot print to the Print/Fax server and
you have checked the hardware and network as described in the
previous steps, then check the following:
It is always a good idea to try following in order to eliminate
the possibility of setup errors.
Turning off the printer and then on again, Deleting and recreating the Print server and
creating a new print queue in order to eliminate the possibility of setup errors.

1 The problem may be the result of mismatched or duplicate IP
address. Verify that the IP address is correctly loaded into the Print/
Fax server (via the configuration page. Make sure that no other
nodes on the network have this address (DUPLICATE IP ADDRESS
ARE THE BIGGEST CAUSE OF TCP/IP PRINTING PROBLEMS).

2 Make sure that the TCP/IP protocol of the Print/Fax server is
enabled.

3 If you used rarp, make sure that you started the rarp daemon on
any workstation using the rarpd, rarpd-a, or equivalent
command. Verify that the /etc/ethers file contains the
correct Ethernet address and that the Print/Fax server name
matches the name in the /etc/hosts file.

4 If you used bootp, make sure that you started the bootp daemon
on any UNIX workstation and bootp is enabled (i.e., the “#” is
removed from the bootp entry) in the /etc/bootptab file is
correctly configured.

5 Also verify that host computer and the Print/Fax server are
either on the same subnet, otherwise that the router is properly
configured to pass data between the two devices.

UNIX Troubleshooting
1 Make sure that the /etc/printcap file (if applicable) is typed
in correctly. In particular, look for missing “:” and “\” characters,
because a small error anywhere in the file can have major
consequences. Also check the /usr/spool directory to make
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sure that you have created a valid spool directory.

2 If you are using a Linux operating system, the X-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 = :\

3 If you are using a Berkeley-based UNIX, make sure that the
daemon is started on Berkeley based systems with the
command lpc start printer, where printer is the name of the local
print queue.

4 If you are using an AT&T-based UNIX, make sure the printer is
enabled (enable printer, where printer is the name 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 text or PCL jobs are run together, try setting the service
(remote printer) with EOT set to string number 2 (E). For
example:
SET SERVICE BRN_xxxxxx_P1 EOT 2

7 If PostScript jobs fail to print or are run together, try setting the
service (remote printer) with EOT set to string number 3
(control-D). For example:
SET SERVICE BRN_xxxxxx_P1 EOT 3

8 If the lines of a text file are staggered, make sure that you have
specified a remote printer (rp) name of TEXT in your /etc/
printcap file.

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9 If you are using Sun Solaris V2.4 or earlier, there is a bug which
causes long print jobs to fail when using a Printer/Fax server. If
you are having trouble printing long jobs (over 1MB), add the
line mx#0 to your etc/printcap file entry.

10 If you cannot print from DEC TCP/IP Service for VMS (UCX),
make sure that you have version 2.0B or later of this software,
because earlier versions will not work with Brother Print/Fax
servers.

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®4.0 system or the LAN Server
file server.

2 If you are using DHCP and you have not created a reservation
for the Print/Fax server, make sure that you enter the NetBIOS
name of the Print/Fax server in the Name or address of server
providing lpd box.

Windows® 95/98/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.

2 Try to turn the Byte Count on in the Configure port area of
printer driver properties.
You may find that during the installation of BLP software, the screen
that prompts you for a Port name is not displayed. This may happen
on some Windows® 95/98/Me computers. Press the ALT and TAB
keys to make it appear.
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Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer (HP JetAdmin
compatible method) Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble printing on a Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-toPeer network, check the following (HP JetAdmin compatible
method):

1 If the Print/Fax server does not show up under JetAdmin on a
Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer network, try removing all of
the Windows® 95/98/Me network software from the Network
Control panel and then reinstalling them as follows:
■ First install the IPX/SPX-Compatible Protocol (or the TCP/IP
protocol if you are using a later version of JetAdmin), the
Client for Microsoft Networks, and the network adapter card
driver.
■ Install the Latest HP JetAdmin software.
■ Restart the system, and then add the HP JetAdmin service.

Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0
Peer-to-Peer Print (NetBIOS) Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble printing on a Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP
and Windows NT®4.0 (or later) Peer-to-Peer network (NetBIOS),
check the following:

1 Make sure that the Brother NetBIOS Port driver is securely
installed and configured according to the Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 Peer-to-Peer (NetBIOS)
chapters. You may find that during the installation of the port
driver, the screen that prompts you for a Port name is not
displayed. This happens on some Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/
XP and Windows NT®4.0 computers. Press the ALT and TAB
keys to make it appear.

2 Make sure that the Print/Fax server is configured to be in the
same workgroup or domain as the rest of your computers. It may
take several minutes for the Print/Fax server to appear in the
network neighborhood.

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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/Fax server. Try sending an E-mail message from
the PC to 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 the PC, on the local E-mail server, or
on the remote POP3 server. Double check to make sure that the
E-mail parameters that you configured on the PC and on the
remote Print/Fax server match those that are configured on the
E-mail servers.

2 If you can print small files OK but are having problems printing
large files, the problem may be in the E-mail system! Some
E-mail systems have difficulties printing large files. If the file
does not reach its destination intact, then the problem is with
the E-mail system.

3 You can also enable the partial E-mail print facility on your client
PC, this will split the E-mail up into fragments which should then
not overwhelm your E-mail server. To 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 than 631
If you are using Port 631 for IPP printing, you may find that your
firewall may not let the print data through. If this is the case, use a
different port number (port 80), or configure your Firewall to allow
Port 631 data through.
To send a print job using IPP to a printer using Port 80 (the standard
HTTP port) enter the following when configuring your Windows®
2000/XP system.
http://ip_address/ipp

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“Get More Info” option in Windows® 2000 not working
“Go to Printer’s Web site” in Windows® XP 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 or the Go to Printer’s
Web site option in Windows® XP will not function. If you wish to use
the Get More Info or the Go to Printer’s Web site option use the
following URL:
http://ip_address
This will then force Windows® 2000/XP to use Port 80 to
communicate with the Brother Print/Fax 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 you cannot print from NetWare and you have checked the
hardware and network as described in the previous steps, first verify
that the Brother Print/Fax server is attached to the server queue by
going to PCONSOLE, selecting PRINT QUEUE INFORMATION,
and then CURRENTLY ATTACHED SERVERS. If the Print server
does not appear in the list of attached servers, then check the
following:
It is always a good idea to try followings in order to eliminate
the possibility of setup errors.
■ Turning off the machine and then on again to force to
rescan the Netware queue.
■ Deleting and recreating the Print server and creating a new
print queue in order to eliminate the possibility of setup
errors.

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1 If you changed the login password, you must change the
password in both the Brother Print/Fax server (using the SET
NETWARE PASSWORD command if you are using the BRConfig
software or by using a web browser or the BRAdmin
Professional utility) and in the file server (using the PCONSOLE
Print Server Information Change Password
command).

2 If you created the print queue using PCONSOLE and BRConfig
instead of BRAdmin Professional utility, make sure that you
have enabled at least one NetWare file server using the SET
NETWARE SERVER servername ENABLED command.

3 Have you exceeded your NetWare user limit?
4 Make sure that the Print server name you used in PCONSOLE
exactly matches the name that is configured in the Print/Fax
server, and make sure it is defined as a Queue Server for the print
queue.

5 If you are running both 802.3 and Ethernet II frames on different
file servers on your network, there is a possibility that the Print/
Fax server may not make a connection to the desired file server.
Try forcing the frame type to the desired one using the SET
NETWARE FRAME command from the Print/Fax server remote
console or using BRAdmin Professional utility.

6 If you are using DOS CAPTURE statement and losing portions
of your print job, try setting the TIMEOUT parameter in your
CAPTURE statement to a higher value (at least 50 seconds for
Windows®).

AppleTalk Troubleshooting
In case of using Postscript driver, if you cannot print from an
AppleTalk for Macintosh computer and you have checked the
hardware and network as described in the previous steps, then
check the following:

1 Make sure that you are running Phase 2 AppleTalk and that you
have selected the correct network interface from the AppleTalk
Control Panel on the Macintosh.

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2 Make sure that the AppleTalk protocol of the Print/Fax server is
enabled.

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 have selected the correct Printer Description File
(PPD) from the Chooser (otherwise PostScript errors may result).

5 Verify that you have selected the correct AppleTalk zone.
Because the Print/Fax server gets its zone information from
router broadcasts, it may not be in the zone you expect, and will
therefore not show up in the Chooser. If this is the case, you may
need to force the zone name using BRAdmin Professional utility,
a web browser.

DLC/LLC Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble printing with DLC/LLC, check the following:

1 Make sure that the DLC/LLC protocol is enabled using either
BRAdmin Professional utility, a web browser or TELNET.

2 Make sure that the MAC address of the Windows® setting is the
same as shown in the network configuration page printout.

Web Browser Troubleshooting (TCP/IP)
1 If you can not connect to the Print/Fax server using your web
browser it may be worth checking the Proxy Settings of your
browser. Look in the Exceptions setting and if necessary, type
in the IP address of the Print/Fax server. This will stop your PC
from trying to connect to your ISP or proxy server every time you
wish to look at the Print/Fax server.

2 Make sure that you are using the proper Web Browser, we
recommend Netscape Navigator version 4.0 or later/ Microsoft
Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later.

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Internet Fax Troubleshooting
1 If there is a mail delivery error while sending an Internet Fax, the
mail server will send an error message back to the machine and
the error message will be printed. If there is an error while
receiving mail, an error message is printed (Ex. The message
being sent to the machine was not in a TIFF-F format.) All
documents transmitted to the machine via E-mail must be in a
TIFF-F format.

2 If an error message is printed while receiving E-mail text from a
PC ATTACHED FILE FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED the
senders mail application may not be set for a Plain Text format
or Vcard the virtual business card feature may be set to ON.

3 If the receiver’s mail system is not compatible with the MIME
format, you cannot transmit a document to the receiver.
Depending on the receiver's server, there are some cases that
the error mail will not be sent back.

4 Messages cannot be received in an HTML format. This format
is not supported. All messages must be received in a TIFF-F
Format.

5 If the size of a documents image data is huge, there is a
possibility of unsuccessful transmission if the system
administrator has imposed a limit on the maximum size of Emails and their attachments. The document you are sending
should be separated into smaller documents that will be
accepted by the mail server. (Ex. A 42 page document of the
CCITT#1 test chart is approximately 1Mbyte in size).

6 If you do not receive E-mail, check the Auto Polling setting and
Polling frequency.

7 If you cannot retrieve mail from the mail server, check the
settings for the POP3 server and Mailbox name. Check that the
POP3 password is entered correctly. This setting is case
sensitive.

8 If Relay Broadcast is not forwarding E-mail to a G3 Fax, check
the Relay Broadcast settings and Relay Domain registration. A
Relay Domain must be entered for this function to work.
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9 The Relay Broadcasting and Broadcasting features cannot be
used at the same time.

10 Relay Broadcast can support the relay of a document up to a
maximum of 48 Fax machines through conventional telephone
lines. If sending to more than 48 locations the sender must
divide the transmission locations into 48 locations or less for
each relay broadcast.

11 When receiving E-mail messages from the POP3 server, the
machine can receive a maximum of 32 mail messages. If there
are more than 32 mail messages in the POP3 server, the
machine will receive a maximum of 32 mail massages and then
receive the remaining after the next polling interval.

12 The NC-9100h Print / Fax Server requires a portion of the user
memory for operation. With the NC-9100h installed the number
of Fax sheets that can be sent or received will be reduced (by
approximately 30 pages of the brother No1 Test Chart) from the
standard machine capacity.

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A Appendix
A

Appendix A
General Information
You can change the configuration of your Print/Fax server using any
of the following methods.
• Brother BRAdmin Professional utility for Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0.
• Brother Web BRAdmin Professional utility for IIS*
• HTTP (using a web browser)
• WebJetAdmin Software

BRAdmin Professional utility (Recommended)
The Brother BRAdmin Professional utility can use the TCP/IP or IPX/
SPX protocol. This utility allows you to graphically manage aspects
of the network and printer. It can also be used to upgrade the
firmware of the Print/Fax server.

Web BRAdmin
The Web BRAdmin software is designed to manage all LAN/WAN
Brother network connected devices. By installing the Web BRAdmin
server software on a computer running IIS*, Administrators with a
Web browser can connect to the Web BRAdmin server, which then
communicates with the device itself. Unlike the BRAdmin
Professional utility - which is designed for Windows® systems only the Web BRAdmin server software can be accessed from any client
computer with a web browser that supports Java.
Please note this software may not be included on the CD-ROM that
was supplied with your Brother product. If it was not, please visit
http://solutions.brother.com/webbradmin to learn more about this
software and to download it.
IIS* = Internet Information Server 4.0 or 5.0

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HTTP (Recommended)
Use your favorite web browser to connect to the Brother Print/Fax
server. This will allow you to configure machine and/or Print/Fax
server parameters.

WebJetAdmin
Brother's Print/Fax server range is HP WebJetAdmin compatible.

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Appendix B
Using Services
General
A service is a resource that can be accessed by computers that wish
to print to the Brother Print/Fax server. The Brother Print/Fax server
provides the following predefined services (do a SHOW SERVICE
command in the Brother Print/Fax server remote console to see a list
of available services): Enter HELP at the command prompt for a list
of supported commands.
Service (Example)

Definition

BINARY_P1

TCP/IP binary, NetBIOS service.

TEXT_P1

TCP/IP text service (adds carriage return after
each line feed).

POSTSCRIPT_P1

PostScript service (switches PJL-compatible
printer to PostScript mode).

PCL_P1

PCL service (switches PJL-compatible printer to
PCL mode).

BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT

AppleTalk and LPD service for Mac OS 8.6 or
later.

BRN_xxxxxx_P1

NetWare service and AppleTalk service with
Quickdraw Driver for Mac OS 8.6 - 9.1, 10.110.2.1 or greater (TCP/IP is enabled for
backwards compatibility).

Where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (for
example, BRN_310107_P1).

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Appendix C
Reloading the Print / FAX Server Firmware
General
The firmware on the Print/Fax 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.brother.com/
The Print / Fax server supports multiple MFC models so when
inserted into the machine the version of the NC-9100h hardware is
checked against the firmware of your machine. If the firmware for
your NC-9100h has been superseded with a later version of firmware
for your model a message is displayed on the LCD. Please update
your firmware.
Some software versions that we provide will automatically
factory reset your Print/Fax server parameters. We try to
avoid doing this. However, if we add a significant new feature
to our Print/Fax server, it can result in the Print/Fax server
being factory reset.
Because of this, we STRONGLY recommend that you make a note
of the current Print/Fax server configuration before you upgrade. To
do this, print out a configuration page. For more information, see
Resetting the Print/Fax Sever back to factory settings (Test Switch)
on page 13-4.
There are three methods of upgrading the firmware in your Brother
Print/Fax server:

1 Use the BRAdmin Professional utility (Recommended)
2 Use the FTP protocol (Recommended if running on
Macintosh or Unix network)

3 Use another system (such as a Novell or Unix system to send
the new firmware file to the Print/Fax server).
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Reloading firmware using BRAdmin Professional
utility
The BRAdmin Professional utility can be used to easily re-program
your Brother Print/Fax server.

1 Start BRAdmin Professional utility.
2 Highlight the appropriate Print/Fax server. Then press select the
Control menu and choose Load Firmware. You can select more
than one Print/Fax server by pressing CTRL+ on each additional Print/Fax server.
There are three possible ways of sending the new software
version to the print server. For whichever method you select,
you must enter a password for the print server. The default
password for the Print/Fax server is access.

3 TFTP PUT from this host
Use this method if you have TCP/IP already installed on your
PC. BRAdmin Professional utility will use the TFTP protocol to
send the new firmware data to the Print/Fax server.

4 TFTP GET from a server
If you have a TFTP server installed in your network (many Unix
systems provide TFTP support), you may wish to use this option.
The new firmware file must be located in the TFTP BOOT directory
on your TFTP server. In this case, your PC makes the Print/Fax
server read the firmware data from the assigned TFTP server. If you
do not provide the correct file name, then the upgrade will fail. You
must also ensure that the firmware file is set so that the Print/Fax
server can read the file. On Unix systems you can use the chmod
command to specify file attributes. For example, chmod
filename 666 allows the filename to be accessed by anyone.
Also make sure that the TFTP service is running on your Unix
server.

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5 Netware GET from a server
You must have a Netware server on your network (running IPX/
SPX) and you must store the new firmware file in the SYS/Login
directory of the server. In this case, your PC makes the Print/Fax
server read the firmware data from the assigned Netware
server, the Print/Fax server attaches to the Netware server and
reads the firmware itself.
After sending firmware to the machine, do not turn off the
machine until after the machine has performed an automatic
restart.

Reloading using the FTP Protocol from a
command prompt
By specifying the Print/Fax server PASSWORD AS THE
USERNAME when logging on, it becomes possible to upgrade the
firmware of the Print/Fax server or printer (if supported). The
following example assumes that the Print/Fax 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 (220.0.250.200:(none)): cambridge
230 User cambridge logged in.
ftp> bin
200 Ready command OK.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
ftp> send brnt261.blf
200 Ready command OK.
150 Transfer Start
#################################################
########
#################################################
#################################################
#################################################
###########################
226 Data Transfer OK/Entering FirmWareUpdate mode.
ftp: 1498053 bytes sent in 8.52Seconds
175.77Kbytes/sec.
ftp> close
226 Data Transfer OK.
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ftp> quit
When you see 226 Data Transfer OK/Entering
FirmWareUpdate mode, you can be sure that the firmware file is
being transferred to the Print/Fax server. If you do not see this
message, the file you are sending to the printer will either be ignored
or the printer will print garbage.
You must use the “bin” command to put the FTP client into
Binary communications mode. If you do not specify the bin
command the upgrade process will not function correctly.

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/Fax server using a web
browser.
After sending firmware to the machine, do not turn off the
machine until after the machine has performed an automatic
restart.

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Appendix D
Updating other MFC’s through the Network
It is possible to program Brother MFC’s on the network with either
settings from an already programmed MFC or with data from the
Brother Network PC-FAX Address Book. See Chapter 17 of the
User’s Guide on the CD-ROM.
When Brother Network PC-FAX in used from a PC that has BRAdmin
Professional installed, an extra option appears in BRAdmin. By
selecting a networked machine in the BRAdmin main window and
right clicking it you will be presented with an extra option, Import
Auto Dial.
If import Auto Dial option does not appear, open the Brother
PC-FAX address book by selecting Start, Programs,
Brother, MFL-Pro Suite, PC-FAX Address Book. It is
necessary to run the address book utility to create an
address book file.

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When you select this option BRAdmin reads the telephone settings
from that machine (if there are any programmed) into Brother PCFAX Address Book.

Illustrated below is the Brother Address Book, on the left are OneTouch / Speed-Dial numbers read from the machine. On the right is
the Brother Address Book. It is now possible to allocate One-Touch
/ Speed-Dial numbers from the MFC into the Brother Address Book
and also use members of the Brother Address Book and send them
to the MFC. You can now make changes to the data in the Brother
Network PC-FAX Address Book and click OK.

This data is then stored in the Windows® Temp Folder and can be
used to update singular or multiple MFC’s on the network.

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Highlight singular or multiple networked Brother MFC’s in the main
BRAdmin window by highlighting and pressing the shift key on your
keyboard. Right click the highlighted MFC’s and press Send Auto
Dial. The new data is then sent to all the highlighted MFC’s.

A dialog box is displayed showing the upload status of current MFC
and beneath this the whole progress is displayed if updating multiple
MFC’s.
When the process is finished a dialog box is displayed showing
which MFC’s on the network have been updated.

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Appendix E
Specifications
Operation System
Support

Windows® 95/98/98SE/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0
Unix systems supporting LPD
Mac OS8.6-9.1 / OS 10.1 - 10.2.1 or greater

Protocol Support

■

■
■
■

TCP/IP (including the following):
RARP, BOOTP, DHCP, APIPA, NetBIOS,
WINS, DNS Resolver, LPR/LPD, Port9100,
SMTP/ POP3, SMB (NetBIOS/IP), IPP, FTP,
SSDP, Rendezvous, TELNET, HTTP, SNMP,
TFTP
IPX/SPX
AppleTalk (EtherTalk)
DLC/LLC

Network

10/100Base-TX Ethernet Network

Network Printing

Windows® 95/98/Me Peer-to-Peer Printing
Windows® 2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 TCP/IP Printing
Unix TCP/IP Printing
Novell NetWare Printing
Macintosh Printing (PostScript or Quick Draw over AppleTalk)
Rendezvous

Network PC Fax send

Windows® 95/98/98SE/Me/2000/XP
Mac OS8.6-9.1 / OS 10.1 - 10.2.1 or greater

Network Scanning

■
■

B/W Resolution (TIFF-F):
200x100, 200x200dpi
Color Resolution (JPEG/PDF):
150x150, 300x300, 600x600dp

Windows® 98/98SE/Me and Windows® 2000/XP
Up to 25 clients can be connected to one machine at a time.

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Internet Fax

T.37 Simple mode
Tiff-F Profile-S
Resolution: 200x100, 200x200, 204x98,
204x196dpi
Coding System: MH
Width: 1728 dot
Fax / E-mail / I-Fax Forwarding / Paging feature
Scan to key: E-mail / OCR / Image / File
Internet Fax Relay
E-mail Relay
Relay Broadcast

Please check the User Guide for your Brother MFC to verify is these
features are available.
SMTP/POP3 Email server required.
Computer Requirements
(For drivers, BRAdmin
Professional, Peer-to-Peer
software, etc.)

■

CPU:
Pentium 75MHz or Higher for Windows® 95/98/
98SE/Windows NT® 4.0
Pentium 150MHz or Higher for Windows® Me
Pentium 133MHz or Higher for Windows® 2000
Pentium 233MHz or Higher for Windows® XP
RAM:
24MB or greater (32MB recommended) for
Windows® 95/98/98SE
32MB or greater (64MB recommended) for
Windows® Me and Windows NT® 4.0
64MB or greater (128MB recommended) for
Windows® 2000/XP

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AppleTalk Connection

■
■

■

Management Utilities

■

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Computer:
Ethernet ready Power Macintosh
RAM:
32MB or more (64MB or more recommended)
for Mac OS 8.6-9.2
128MB or more (160MB or more recommended)
for OS X 10.1 - 10.2.1 or greater
OS:
Mac OS 8.6-9.1 / OS 10.1 - 10.2.1 or greater
Open Transport 1.3 or later
Web Based Management:
Internet Explorer 5.xx or later
Netscape Navigator 4.xx or later
BRAdmin Professional utility
Windows® 95/98/98SE/Me/2000/XP and
Windows NT®4.0
Web BRAdmin
Windows® 2000 Professional/Server/
Advanced Server/XP Professional

Function Table and Default Factory Settings
LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL THREE
ONE
TWO
6.LAN 1.Setup 1.BOOT Method
(MFC) TCP/IP
2.IP Address
4.LAN
(DCP)
3.Subnet Mask
4.Gateway
5.Host Name
6.WINS Config
7.WINS Server
8.DNS Server

OPTIONS
Auto/ Static/ RARP/
BOOTP/ DHCP
[000-255].[000-255].[000255].[000-255]
[000-255].[000-255].[000255].[000-255]
[000-255].[000-255].[000255].[000-255]
BRN_XXXXXX=(last 6 figures of Ethernet address)
(up to 15 characters)
Auto/ Static

3.Setup
Mail RX
(MFC)

Auto
[169].[254].[001254].[000-255]
255.255.0.0
000.000.000.000
BRN_XXXXXX

Name
255].[000-255]
(up to 30 characters)
3.POP3 Server [000-255].[000-255].[000- Name
255].[000-255]
(up to 30 characters)
4.Mailbox Name (up to 20 characters)
Verify:******
5.Mailbox Pwd Password:******
On/ Off
1.Auto Polling
2.Poll Frequency xxMin
All/ Subject+From+To/ None
3.Header

4.Del Error Mail On/ Off
On/ MDN/ Off
5.Notification
4.Setup 1.Sender Subject Internet Fax Job
Mail TX 2.Size Limit
On/ Off
(MFC)
On/ Off
3.Notification
5.Setup 1.Rly Broadcast On/ Off
Relay
2.Relay Domain RelayXX:
(MFC)
3.Relay Report On/ Off

BRN_224157

Auto

(Primary) 000.000.000.000 (Secondary)
000.000.000.000
(Primary) 000.000.000.000 (Secondary)
000.000.000.000
On/Off
(60 characters)

9.APIPA
2.Setup 1.Mail Address
Internet
2.SMTP Server [000-255].[000-255].[000(MFC)

FACTORY
SETTING

OPTIONS

000.000.000.000
000.000.000.000
On
brn224157@exapmle.com
000.000.000.000
000.000.000.000

On
10 Min
None
On
Off
Off
Off
Off
Off

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6.Setup 1.Netware
Misc.
2.Net Frame *2
(MFC)
3.AppleTalk
2.(DCP)
4.DLC/LLC
5.Net BIOS/IP
6.Ethernet
7.Time Zone
7.Scan to E-Mail
(MFC)

On/ Off *1
Auto/ 8023/ ENET/ 8022/ SNAP

On
Auto

On/ Off
On/ Off

On
On

On/ Off
Auto/ 100B-FD/ 100B-HD/
10B-FD/ 10B-HD
GMTXXX:XX

On
Auto
GMT-5:00

PDF/ JPEG

PDF

*1: ‘IP Address’ and ‘Subnet Mask’ setting will be changed by APIPA setting.
*2: ‘NET FRAME’ setting is available when ‘NETWARE’ is ‘ON’.

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INDEX
A

AIX ...................................... 1-3
AIX 4.0 ................................ 1-8
AppleTalk ... 7-1, 7-3, 7-8, 13-2,
13-11
ARP ...................1-2, 11-1, 11-6

B
Berkeley UNIX .................... 1-1
BINARY_P1 ......... 1-2, 1-3, A-3
BINDERY ............................ 6-2
BIP ...................................... 5-1
BOOTP .............1-2, 11-5, 11-9
BRAdmin ........................... 11-2
Brother LPR port ................. 3-4
Brother NetBIOS Port Monitor .
4-2, ................................... 4-4
Brother Peer to Peer Print ... 3-4
Browser ............................... 9-2

C
CFGTCP ........................... 1-11
Chooser .............................. 7-2

D
Desktop Printer ................... 7-5
DHCP ................1-2, 11-1, 11-5
DLC ..................................... 8-1
DLC/LLC ......................... 13-12
DNS .................................... 9-2
DOMAIN .............................. 4-2
DOS .................................... 4-1

E
E-mail .................................. 5-2
EtherTalk ...............7-1, 7-3, 7-8

F
flash memory ...................... A-4
FTP ............. 1-2, 1-11, A-4, A-6

H
hosts ....................................3-3
HP distributed print service .1-7
HP/UX ......................... 1-3, 1-7
HTTP ..................9-1, 11-1, A-1
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol ...
9-1

I
IBM AS/400 .......................1-11
IBM LAN Server ..................2-1
IBM RS/6000 AIX ................1-8
IIS ................................ 2-2, A-1
Internet ................................5-1
Internet Printing ...................5-1
IPP ................. 2-2, 2-4, 5-1, 5-9
IPX .......................................6-2
IPX/SPX ............................11-1
ISP .......................................5-2

J
JetAdmin ...........................13-8

L
LED ...................................13-3
Linux ............................ 1-1, 1-6
lpc .............................. 1-5, 1-13
lpstat ....................................1-5

M
Macintosh ............................7-2
Microsoft Internet Explorer ..2-2
Microsoft Internet Print Services
...........................................2-2
MIME ...................................5-2

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NDPS .......................... 6-2, 6-3
NDS .................................... 6-2
NetBIOS .................... 4-1, 13-8
NetWare 3 .......................... 6-2
Netware 3 ........................... 6-6
NetWare 4 ................... 6-2, 6-6
NetWare 5 .......................... 6-2
Netware GET ...................... A-6
network neighborhood ........ 4-1
Novell ............................... 13-2
Novell Distributed Print Services
.......................................... 6-3
Novell NetWare .............. 13-10
NWADMIN .......................... 6-2

sam ..................................... 1-7
SCO UNIX Configuration .. 1-10
SCOADMIN ...................... 1-10
Server Message Block ........ 4-1
service ................................ 1-3
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
5-2
smaller networks ................. 3-1
SMB .................................... 4-1
smit ..................................... 1-8
SMTP ........................... 5-2, 5-7
Sun Solaris 2.x .................... 1-9
sysadmsh .......................... 1-11
System 8.6 ................... 7-2, 7-5

OS/2 Warp Server .............. 2-1
OS/400 ............................. 1-11

TCP/IP ....................... 1-1, 11-1
TEXT_P1 ............. 1-2, 1-3, A-3
TFTP GET ..........................A-5
TFTP PUT ...........................A-5

P
password 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1
PCONSOLE ....................... 6-6
Peer to Peer Printing .......... 3-1
Peer-to-Peer ..................... 13-8
ping ................................... 13-2
POP3 .................................. 5-3
PPD ............................. 7-3, 7-7
PRINTCAP ......................... 1-2
printcap ............................... 1-4
Printer Agent ...................... 6-5
PSERVER NLM ................ 6-12

R
RARP ............................... 11-8
Reloading firmware ............ A-5
RFC 1001 ......................... 11-5
rlpstat .................................. 1-5

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U
UNIX ................................... 1-1

W
Web BRAdmin ....................A-1
Web browser ..................... 11-1
WebJetAdmin .....................A-1
Windows 2000 .....2-1, 5-1, 8-1,
13-10
Windows 2000 Printing 2-2, 2-4
Windows 95/98/Me ............. 3-1
Windows NT 3.5x ................ 2-1
Windows NT®4.0 ................ 8-1
Windows NT®4.0 Printing ... 2-4
Windows XP ................ 2-1, 5-1
WORKGROUP ................... 4-2

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