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
4
1
Management utilities 1
BRAdmin Light 1
BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of network connected Brother devices. This utility can search for
Brother products on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address.
The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
and Windows Server
®
2003/2008 and Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5.x computers. For Macintosh users, BRAdmin Light will be installed
automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already installed the printer driver, you don’t have
to install it again.
For more information on BRAdmin Light, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com
.
BRAdmin Professional 3 (Windows
®
) 1
BRAdmin Professional 3 is a utility for more advanced management of network connected Brother devices.
This utility can search for Brother products on your network and view the device status from an easy to read
explorer style window that changes color identifying the status of each device. You can configure network
and device settings along with the ability to update device firmware from a Windows
®
computer on your LAN.
BRAdmin Professional 3 can also log activity of brother devices on your network and export the log data inan
HTML, CSV, TXT or SQL format.
For more information and downloading, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com
.
Web BRAdmin (Windows
®
) 1
Web BRAdmin is a utility for managing network connected Brother devices on your LAN and WAN. This utility
can search for Brother products on your network, view its status and configure the network settings. Unlike
BRAdmin Professional 3, which is designed for Windows
®
only, Web BRAdmin is a server based utility that
can be accessed from any client PC with a web browser that supports JRE (Java Runtime Environment). By
installing the Web BRAdmin server utility on a PC running IIS
1
, connect to the Web BRAdmin server, which
then communicates with the device itself.
For more information and downloading, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com
.
1
Internet Information Server 4.0 or Internet Information Service 5.0/5.1/6.0/7.0
Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models) 1
The Remote Setup software allows you to configure network settings from a Windows
®
PC or Macintosh
(Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5.x) computer. (See Remote Setup in the Software User’s Guide.)