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Brother 5250DN Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes, Trademarks, Compilation and publication notice

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Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes

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Trademarks

Brother and the Brother logo are registered trademarks and BRAdmin Professional is a trademark of Brother

Industries, Ltd.

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Compilation and publication notice

Under the supervision of Brother Industries Ltd., this manual has been compiled and published, covering the

latest product’s 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.

©2005 Brother Industries Ltd.

Notes tell you how you should respond to a situation that may arise or give tips about how the

operation works with other features.

Windows® XP in this document represents Windows® XP Professional, Windows® XP

Professional x64 Edition and Windows® XP Home Edition. Go to the Brother Solutions Center

(http://solutions.brother.com) for more information on Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

support.

Contents

Main HL-5250DN series HL-5270DN Multi-Protocol On-board Ethernet Print Server NETWORK USERS GUIDE Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes Trademarks Compilation and publication notice Page Page Table of contents 1 2 3 basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing 3-1 4 NetBIOS Peer-to-Peer printing 4-1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 Types of network connection Network connection example Peer-to-Peer printing using TCP/IP Network shared printing Protocols TCP/IP protocols and functionalities DHCP/BOOTP/RARP APIPA DNS client Page 2 IP addresses, subnet masks and gateways IP address How the IP address is assigned to your print server: Subnet mask Gateway (and router) Setting the IP address and subnet mask Using the BRAdmin Professional utility to configure your network printer (for Windows only) BRAdmin Professional utility How to configure your printer using the BRAdmin Professional utility Page Changing the print server settings Page 3 3 basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing For Windows 2000/XP users Configuring the standard TCP/IP port Printer driver not yet installed Page For Windows NT 4.0 users Page For Windows 95/98/Me users Page 3 Adding a second Brother LPR port 4 NetBIOS Peer-to-Peer printing Print server configuration for Windows 95/98/Me, Windows 2000/XP and Windows NT 4.0 Print server configuration Page Changing the Workgroup/Domain Name using a web browser Changing the Workgroup/Domain Name using TELNET SET NETBIOS DOMAIN domainname EXIT Page Page Adding a second NetBIOS print port Windows 95/98/Me Windows NT4.0 / Windows 2000/XP Page 5 Windows 2000/XP IPP printing Page Specifying a different URL 6 6 Printing from a Macintosh using the Simple Network Configuration capabilities of Mac OS X How to select the printer driver (Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater) Page 6 Changing the print server settings Using a web browser to change the print server settings Using the BRAdmin Light utility (for Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater) Page 7 Changing the print server settings using the control panel NETWORK menu (for HL-5270DN) Control panel NETWORK menu and default factory settings TCP/IP Page Page NETBIOS/IP ENET Printing the Printer Settings Page How to print the Printer Settings Page Restoring the network settings to factory default Disabling the APIPA protocol 8 General problems Installation problems Page Page Page Printing problems Print job is not printed Error during printing Protocol-specific troubleshooting Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT4.0 Peer-to-Peer print (LPR) troubleshooting Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT4.0 Peer-to-Peer print (NetBIOS) troubleshooting Windows 2000/XP IPP troubleshooting I want to use a different Port number other than 631. The Get More Info option in Windows 2000 is not working Web browser troubleshooting (TCP/IP) A Using services Other ways to set the IP address (for advanced users and administrators) Using DHCP to configure the IP address Using BOOTP to configure the IP address Using RARP to configure the IP address Using APIPA to configure the IP address Using ARP to configure the IP address Windows systems UNIX/Linux systems Using the TELNET console to configure the IP address Using the Brother Web BRAdmin server software for IIS* to configure the IP address Print server specifications B B Brother numbers (for USA and Canada) Register your product http://www.brother.com/registration/ Frequently asked questions (FAQs) Page B Brother numbers (for Europe and other countries) Register your product http://www.brother.com/registration/ Frequently asked questions (FAQs) http://solutions.brother.com Page I I T W