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9.  NETWORK PROBLEM (FOR HL-1270N ONLY)

If the error related to network occurs, refer to the following sections;

  9.1 Installation Problem

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

(1)  Make sure that the printer is powered on, is on-line and ready to print.

 Verify that the printer and the configuration are good by printing the Network Configuration

page.  (To print the Configuration page press  the Network Test button for less than 5
seconds.)  If the test fails, check:

a) If the Alarm LED on the printer front panel is ON or blinking and all of the LEDs on the

back panel - near the UTP (Ethernet) connector - are OFF, or the Orange (F) LED is
blinking, then the network firmware settings may be corrupted.

b) In this event, try to restore the factory default settings of the print server by pressing

the Network Test button on the back panel of the printer for more than 5 seconds.
Once you have done that, turn the printer power off and then on again, and try to print
out the Network Configuration page.

(2)  If the Configuration page is printed but you cannot print documents, try the following

NOTE:

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 server from  the host operating system prompt with the command

ping 

ipaddress, where ipaddress is the print server IP address (note that in some

instances it can take up to two minutes for the print 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/LAN Server, Windows98/95 Peer to Peer (LPR), Internet
Printing or Web Browser troubleshooting section.  Otherwise, proceed to 

step (3)

, and

then go to 

subsection 9.3 ‘TCP/IP Troubleshooting’

.

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, 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 server is visible to the network, proceed to

 subsection 9.10 ‘Novell

NetWare Troubleshooting’

.  Otherwise, go to 

step (3)

.

c) If you are running AppleTalk for Macintosh:

 Make sure that you can see the print server name under the LaserWriter 8 icon in the

Chooser.  If it is visible, then the connection is good, so proceed to 

subsection 9.11

‘AppleTalk Troubleshooting’

.  Otherwise, go to 

step (3)

.