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Network printing from Windows

®

: basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing

4 - 4

4

9

You must now enter the actual IP address of the print server and the print server name. If you have edited 
the hosts file on your computer or are using Domain Name System, you can also enter the DNS 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 settings page. The 
NetBIOS name assigned is the first 15 characters of the node name and by default it will appear as 
“

BRN_xxxxxx

” for a wired network or “

BRW_xxxxxx

” for a wireless network where “

xxxxxx

” is the last 

six digits of the Ethernet address.

Note

•

The node name and the NetBIOS name is printed on the Printer Settings Page. To learn how to print 
the Printer Settings Page, see 

Printing the Printer Settings Page

 on page 8-11.

•

If you search the device using the search function in Step 8 above, disable the Personal Firewall 
software if you are using it. Once you are sure that you can print, re-start your Personal Firewall 
software.

10

Click the 

Finish 

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 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 

Next

.

4

Select the Brother LPR Port (the port name you assigned in step 8 of the “Installing Brother Peer-to-Peer 
Software” section in this chapter) and click 

Next

.

5

Select the desired printer model. If the correct model is not displayed, click the 

Have Disk

 option and 

insert the CD-ROM 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 

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 

Next

.

9

Select 

Yes

 when you asked 

Would you like to print a test page?

. Click 

Finish

 to complete the 

installation. You may now print to the printer as if it were a local printer.