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
 
 
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Internet fax overview 11
Internet faxing (I-Fax) allows you to send and receive fax documents using the Internet as the transport 
mechanism. Documents are transmitted in E-mail messages as attached TIFF-F files. This means that 
computers are also able to receive and send documents, providing that the computer has as an application 
that can generate and view TIFF-F files, you can use a TIFF-F viewer application. Any documents sent via 
the machine will automatically be converted into a TIFF-F format. If you wish to send and receive messages 
to and from your machine, your mail application on the computer must be able to support the MIME format.
Note
• You can send/receive I-Fax documents in Letter or A4 format and in Black & White only.
• If your document is in a Ledger or A3 format, it will automatically be reduced to Letter or A4 format when 
it is sent.
• If you want to send a document in a Ledger or A3 format, see Scan to E-mail Server overview 
(MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW) on page 150.
• For MFC-5890CN
In order to use this function, please download the necessary software from the Brother Solutions Center. 
(http://solutions.brother.com
) 
Getting connected 11
Before sending or receiving an Internet fax you must configure your Brother machine to communicate with 
your network and mail server. You must ensure the following: a correctly configured IP address for your 
machine, an E-mail address for your machine, the mail server(s) IP address, mailbox name and password for 
your Brother machine. If you are unsure of any of these items, please contact your systems Administrator. 
For details of how to configure this information, see E-mail/I-FAX (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW) 
on page 95.
Internet fax and Scan to E-mail 
(For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)
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Internet Fax
E-mail
E-mail
Relay Fax
(G3 TX)
Relay E-mail
Internet
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