Configuring Dlc On Other Systems - Brother HL 1270N - B/W Laser Printer Network User's Manual

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.
Note
Brother does not recommend using the DLC protocol with Windows for
Workgroup 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.
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