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
Configuring your machine for a network with an Ethernet cable connection (Not available for MFC-253CW, MFC-255CW and
MFC-257CW)
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2
Setting up the IP address and subnet mask 2
Using the BRAdmin Light utility to configure your machine as a network printer2
BRAdmin Light 2
The BRAdmin Light utility is designed for initial setup of the Brother network connected devices. It also can
search for Brother products in a TCP/IP environment, view the status and configure basic network settings,
such as IP address. The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
, Windows
Server
®
2003/2008 and Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5.x.
How to configure your machine using the BRAdmin Light utility 2
Note
• Please use the BRAdmin Light utility version that was supplied on the CD-ROM of your Brother product.
You can also download the latest Brother BRAdmin Light utility version from http://solutions.brother.com
.
• If you require more advanced printer management, use the latest Brother BRAdmin Professional 3 utility
that is available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com
. This utility is only available for Windows
®
users.
• If you are using a firewall function of anti-spyware or antivirus applications, temporarily disable them. Once
you are sure that you can print, re-enable them.
• Node Name: Node Name appears in current BRAdmin Light window. The default Node Name of the print
server in the machine is “BRNxxxxxxxxxxxx”. (“xxxxxxxxxxxx” is your machine’s MAC Address / Ethernet
Address.)
• By default, no password is required. To set a password for, double-click the device you want to set a
password. Click Control tab, and then click Change Password. Enter the new password.
a Start the BRAdmin Light utility.
Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
and Windows Server
®
2003/2008
Click Start / All Programs
1
/ Brother / BRAdmin Light / BRAdmin Light.
1
Programs for Windows
®
2000 users
Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.5.x
Double-click Macintosh HD (Startup Disk) / Library / Printers / Brother / Utilities /
BRAdmin Light.jar file.
b BRAdmin Light will search for new devices automatically.