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CHAPTER 6 TROUBLESHOOTING

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9. NETWORK PROBLEM (FOR HL-1270N ONLY)

If the error related to network occurs, refer to the following sections;

9.1 Installation Problem

If you cannot print over the network, check the following:

(1) Make sure that the printer is powered on, is on-line and ready to print.

Verify that the printer and the configuration are good by printing the Network Configuration

page. (To print the Configuration page press the Network Test button for less than 5
seconds.) If the test fails, check:

a) If the Alarm LED on the printer front panel is ON or blinking and all of the LEDs on the

back panel - near the UTP (Ethernet) connector - are OFF, or the Orange (F) LED is
blinking, then the network firmware settings may be corrupted.

b) In this event, try to restore the factory default settings of the print server by pressing

the Network Test button on the back panel of the printer for more than 5 seconds.
Once you have done that, turn the printer power off and then on again, and try to print
out the Network Configuration page.

(2) If the Configuration page is printed but you cannot print documents, try the following

NOTE:

If none of the following steps are successful, there is almost certainly a hardware or
network problem!

a) If you are using TCP/IP:

Try pinging the print server from the host operating system prompt with the command

ping

ipaddress

, where

ipaddress

is the print server IP address (note that in some

instances it can take up to two minutes for the print server to load its IP address (after
setting the IP address). If a successful response is received, then proceed to the

UNIX, TCP/IP

Windows NT/LAN Server, Windows98/95 Peer to Peer (LPR), Internet

Printing or Web Browser troubleshooting section.

Otherwise, proceed to

step (3)

, and

then go to

subsection 9.3 ‘TCP/IP Troubleshooting’

.

b) If you are using Novell system:

Verify that the print server can be seen on the network. To do this, login as the

SUPERVISOR (not as someone with supervisor privileges) or ADMIN (for Netware 4
or later servers), go into PCONSOLE, select PRINT SERVER INFORMATION, and
select the name of the print server (make sure that you have entered the print server
name). If you can see

Print Server Status

and

Control

in the menu, then the

Brother print server is visible to the network, proceed to

subsection 9.10 ‘Novell

NetWare Troubleshooting’

. Otherwise, go to

step (3)

.

c) If you are running AppleTalk for Macintosh:

Make sure that you can see the print server name under the LaserWriter 8 icon in the

Chooser. If it is visible, then the connection is good, so proceed to

subsection 9.11

‘AppleTalk Troubleshooting’

. Otherwise, go to

step (3)

.