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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 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 in the previous sections. The MAC 

address (Ethernet address) of the print server should automatically 
appear during the configuration process.

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.

Other Sources of Information

Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on network 
printing.

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.