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
- 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 utility to change the wireless settings (For Windows®)
 - Using the Remote Setup to change the print server settings (Not available for DCP models)
 - Using the control panel to change the print server settings
 
 
 - 3 Configuring your machine for a wireless network (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
- 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
 
 - 4 Wireless configuration for Windows® using the Brother installer application (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
 - 5 Wireless Configuration for Macintosh® using the Brother installer application (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
 - 6 Control panel setup
- Network menu
- TCP/IP
 - Setup Misc. (MFC-5490CN only)
 - Setup Wizard (wireless network only)
 - SES/WPS/AOSS (wireless network only)
 - WPS w/PIN code (wireless network only)
 - WLAN Status (wireless network only)
 - Ethernet (wired network only)
 - E-mail/I-FAX (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
 - Scan to FTP (For MFC-5890CN and MFC-6490CW)
 - Scan to FTP (For MFC-6890CDW)
 - Time Zone (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
 - Network I/F (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
 - LDAP (For MFC-6890CDW)
 
 - 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 LDAP operation (For MFC-6890CDW)
 - 11 Internet fax and Scan to E-mail (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
- Internet fax overview
- Getting connected
 - Control panel key functions
 - Sending an Internet fax
 - Manually entering text
 - Receiving E-mail or Internet fax
 - Receiving an Internet fax to your computer
 - Forwarding received E-mail and fax messages
 - Relay broadcasting
 - TX Verification Mail
 - Setup Mail TX
 - Setup Mail RX
 - Error mail
 - Important information on Internet fax
 
 - Scan to E-mail Server overview (MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
 
 - Internet fax overview
 - 12 Security features (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
 - 13 Troubleshooting
 - Appendix A
 - Appendix B
 - Appendix C
 - Index
 
 
Introduction
3
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 and Windows Vista
®
 and Mac OS
®
 X 10.2.4 
(or greater) computers. For installing BRAdmin Light on Windows
®
, please see the Quick Setup Guide we 
provided with the machine. 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 (for Windows
®
) 1
BRAdmin Professional is a utility for more advanced management of network connected Brother devices. 
This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view their status and configure the network 
settings from a computer running Windows
®
 system. BRAdmin Professional has additional features from 
BRAdmin Light.
For more information and downloading, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com
.
Web BRAdmin (for 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, 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 10.2.4 or greater) computer. (See Remote Setup in the Software User’s Guide.)
Internet Fax/Scan to E-mail Server (MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW: standard, 
MFC-5890CN: available as a download) 1
The Brother machine can be assigned an E-mail address allowing you to send, receive or forward documents 
over a Local Area Network or the Internet to PC’s or other Internet Fax machines. Before using this function, 
you have to configure the necessary machine settings by using the machine’s control panel. For details, see 
Internet fax and Scan to E-mail (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW) on page 141.
For MFC-5890CN
1
In order to use this function, please download the necessary software from our web site The Brother Solutions 
Center. (http://solutions.brother.com
) 










