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Chapter 1 introduction, Chapter 1, Introduction – Philips KX-PNBC8 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Introduction

The KX-PNBC8 provides Ethernet connectivity for the KX-P8415 laser printer, by
functioning as a network print server.
The KX-PNBC8 has the following features:

• Automatic selection of 100BaseTX Fast Ethernet connection or 10BaseT Ethernet

connection.

• Peer-to-Peer (serverless) printing from Windows

®

95

*1

/Windows 98

*2

or Windows

NT

®

4.0

*3

workstations, without a Novell file server present and without using IP.

• Novell NetWare PSERVER on both bindery based and Novell Directory Services

(NDS).

• lpr/lpd over TCP/IP for Microsoft

®

Windows

*4

.

• IP and IPX SNMP support of MIB-2 and Network Interface Card (NIC) MIB.

• SNMP support of standard MIB and proprietary printer MIBs on compatible printers.

• Integral HTTP Server to allow monitoring and management of your Network Card

from a standard IP Web Browser program.

• Management Access Program (MAP) to allow Windows-based HTML viewing for

monitoring and management of your Network Card.

*1

Microsoft

®

Windows

®

95 operating system (hereafter Windows 95)

*2

Microsoft

®

Windows

®

98 operating system (hereafter Windows 98)

*3

Microsoft

®

Windows NT

®

Workstation operating system and Microsoft

®

Windows NT

®

Server network operating system Version 4.0 (hereafter Windows NT 4.0)

*4

Microsoft

®

Windows

®

operating system (hereafter Windows)