Brother HL-1850 User Guide

CHAPTER 4 NETBIOS PEER-TO-PEER PRINTING 

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As Brother print servers support the SMB protocol over TCP/IP via a NetBIOS 
interface, you can easily configure your printer to work with an IBM LAN Server 
and OS/2 Warp Server networks that have IBM TCP/IP V2.0 or later installed on 
the fileserver. Use the following procedure to configure the LAN Server, OS/2 
Warp Server or OS/2 Warp connect workstation. 

 

 

1.  Open the Templates folder on the OS/2 desktop. 
2.  Using the right mouse button, drag the Printer template onto the desktop. 
3.  Type in any desired name for the printer from the Create a Printer 

window. 

4.  Choose an unused port (for example, LPT3) to connect to the printer. 
5.  Choose the appropriate printer driver from the list. 
6.  Click Create and then OK. 
7.  If desired, indicate whether you want to share the printer. 

  

 
On each workstation that you wish to print from, execute the following step: 
 
Go to the DOS or OS/2 command prompt and enter the command: 
 
 

NET USE LPTx: \\NodeName\ServiceName 

 
Where "x" is the LPT port number (1 through 9), NodeName is the NetBIOS 
Name of the print server  (usually BRN_xxxxxx by default, where "xxxxxx" is 
the last six digits of Ethernet address) and ServiceName is the service name of 
the print server (BINARY_P1 by default).  For example: 
 
 

NET USE LPT2: \\BRN_310107\BINARY_P1 

 
You can find the NetBIOS name and MAC address by printing out the printer 
configuration page. Refer to the User’s Guide for information on how to print the 
configuration page on your print server.