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06-20-2008
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| | Brother HL-2170W Network has Win 2000 Pro desktop and Vista Home Premium notebook. Connected via D-Link DIR-655 router. Installed printer on network, running from Vista system. Then from Windows 2000 system. In Network, I see both BRNsomestring, icon is monitor connected to something (a tower or router?) Brother HL-2170W series [somestring], icon is a printer And in folder tree, BRNsomestring is listed, as well as both computers in the network. Why are there two icons? |
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06-20-2008
| #2 (permalink) |
| | Re: Brother HL-2170W "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OfJff0y0IHA.416@xxxxxx Quote: > Network has Win 2000 Pro desktop and Vista Home Premium notebook. > Connected via D-Link DIR-655 router. > > Installed printer on network, running from Vista system. > Then from Windows 2000 system. > > In Network, I see both > > BRNsomestring, icon is monitor connected to something (a tower or router?) > Brother HL-2170W series [somestring], icon is a printer > > And in folder tree, BRNsomestring is listed, as well as both computers in > the network. > > Why are there two icons? BRNsomestring is listed as "Computer" in WORKGROUP Brother HL-2170W series [somestring] is listed as "Printers" |
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06-23-2008
| #3 (permalink) |
| | Re: Brother HL-2170W the BRNxxxxxx is the hostname of the network card of the printer. This is basically the same as the network name of your computer. The network card of the printer supports several methods for printing to the device. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:emqst3y0IHA.548@xxxxxx Quote: > "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:OfJff0y0IHA.416@xxxxxx Quote: >> Network has Win 2000 Pro desktop and Vista Home Premium notebook. >> Connected via D-Link DIR-655 router. >> >> Installed printer on network, running from Vista system. >> Then from Windows 2000 system. >> >> In Network, I see both >> >> BRNsomestring, icon is monitor connected to something (a tower or >> router?) >> Brother HL-2170W series [somestring], icon is a printer >> >> And in folder tree, BRNsomestring is listed, as well as both computers in >> the network. >> >> Why are there two icons? > If I change the View to details, I see that: > > BRNsomestring is listed as "Computer" in WORKGROUP > Brother HL-2170W series [somestring] is listed as "Printers" > > |
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06-28-2008
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| | Re: Brother HL-2170W "Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uRTw0RV1IHA.2064@xxxxxx Quote: > the BRNxxxxxx is the hostname of the network card of the printer. This is > basically the same as the network name of your computer. > > The network card of the printer supports several methods for printing to Quote: > device. |
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