Network User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- NETWORK USER’S GUIDE
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Configuring your machine for a network with an Ethernet cable connection (Not available for MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW and MFC-257CW)
- Overview
- IP addresses, subnet masks and gateways
- Step by step chart
- Setting up the IP address and subnet mask
- Changing the print server settings
- Using the BRAdmin Light utility to change the print server settings
- Using the BRAdmin Professional 3 utility to change the wireless settings (Windows®)
- Using the Remote Setup to change the print server settings (Not available for Windows Server® 2003/2008) (Not available for DCP models, MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW, MFC-257CW and MFC-295CN)
- Using the control panel to change the print server settings
- 3 Configuring your machine for a wireless network (Not available for DCP-365CN, DCP-395CN and MFC-295CN)
- Overview
- Wireless network terms and concepts
- Step by step chart for wireless network configuration
- Confirm your network environment
- Confirm your wireless network setup method
- Configuration using the machine’s control panel Setup Wizard to configure your wireless network machine
- Configuration using the SES/WPS/AOSS control panel menu (Infrastructure mode only)
- Configuration using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ (Infrastructure mode only)
- Configuration using the Brother installer application on the CD-ROM to configure your wireless network machine
- Configuring your machine for a wireless network
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel
- Using SES, WPS or AOSS from the control panel menu to configure your machine for a wireless network
- Using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi Protected Setup™
- Using the Brother automatic installer application on the CD-ROM to configure your machine for a wireless network
- 4 Wireless configuration for Windows® using the Brother installer application (For DCP-373CW, DCP-375CW, DCP-377CW, DCP-593CW, DCP-595CW, DCP-597CW, MFC-495CW and MFC-795CW)
- 5 Wireless Configuration for Macintosh using the Brother installer application (For DCP-373CW, DCP-375CW, DCP-377CW, DCP-593CW, DCP-595CW, DCP-597CW, MFC-495CW and MFC-795CW)
- 6 Control panel setup
- Network menu
- TCP/IP
- Setup Wizard (For wireless models)
- SES/WPS/AOSS (For wireless models)
- WPS w/PIN code (For wireless models)
- WLAN Status (For wireless models)
- Ethernet (Not available for MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW and MFC-257CW)
- MAC Address
- Network I/F (For wireless models, not available for MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW and MFC-257CW)
- WLAN Enable (For MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW and MFC-257CW)
- Restoring the network settings to factory default
- Printing the Network Configuration List
- Network menu
- 7 Driver Deployment Wizard (Windows® only)
- 8 Network printing from Windows® basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing
- 9 Network printing from a Macintosh
- 10 Troubleshooting
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Index
Introduction
3
1
Network features 1
Your Brother machine has the following basic network functions.
Network printing 1
The print server provides printing services for Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
and Windows Server
®
2003/2008 supporting the TCP/IP protocols and Macintosh (Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5.x) supporting TCP/IP.
Network scanning 1
You can scan documents over the network to your computer. (See Network Scanning in the Software User’s
Guide.)
Network PC-FAX (Not available for DCP models) 1
You can directly send a PC file as a PC-FAX over your network. (See Brother PC-FAX Software for Windows
®
and Sending a Fax for Macintosh in the Software User’s Guide for a complete description.) Windows
®
users
can also use PC-FAX receive
1
. (See PC-FAX receiving in the Software User’s Guide.)
1
PC-Fax Receive is not supported by the MFC-253CW, 255CW, 257CW and 295CN.
Network PhotoCapture Center™ 1
You can view, retrieve and save data from a USB flash memory drive or a media card inserted into the Brother
machine. The software is automatically installed when you choose network connection during the software
installation. For Windows
®
, choose the PHOTOCAPTURE tab of the ControlCenter3. For more information,
see ControlCenter3 in the Software User’s Guide. For Macintosh, launch any web browser in which FTP is
available and enter FTP://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your Brother machine).
For more information, see Remote Setup & PhotoCapture Center in the Software User’s Guide.