Problem

Brother developed the Driver Deployment Wizard to ease the burden of printer driver installation onto locally connected or into network connected environments. For more information visit the Driver Deployment Wizard page.

When creating a driver configured to print to a peer-to-peer network printer, the Driver Deployment Wizard inserts the printer IP address into the self-funning .EXE file that the Driver Deployment Wizard creates. If other users run this .EXE file, a driver is installed onto the users PC with the same device IP address settings found in the original .EXE file. This forces IT Administrators to create several different .EXE files for each peer-to-peer network printer in their environments.

Solution

Brother modified the Driver Deployment Wizard software to support the 'i' switch. By adding the '-i' switch to any .EXE file that the Driver Deployment Wizard software creates, the IP address embedded within the .EXE file can be changed. For example:
An Administrator creates an .EXE file names HL2460.EXE, this .EXE file automatically installs a Windows 2000 driver and configures the printer port to print to an IP address of 10.2.65.100. If the user runs the HL2460.EXE file with the 'i' switch, the embedded IP address can be changed. For example by running: HL2460 -I 10.3.50.99 the HL-2460 driver is installed onto the PC. However, the IP address it prints to is changed from 10.2.65.100 to 10.3.50.99