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
Configuring your machine for a wireless network (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
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g The machine will search for your network and display a list of available SSIDs. You should see the SSID
you wrote down earlier. If the machine finds more than one network use a or b key to choose your
network, then press OK. Go to k.
If your access point is set to not broadcast the SSID, you will have to manually add the SSID name.
Go to h.
h Choose <New SSID> using a or b.
Press OK. Go to i.
i Enter the SSID name. (For information how to type text, see Entering Text on page 179.)
Press OK. Go to j.
j Using a or b, choose Infrastructure when instructed.
Press OK. Go to k.
If you chose Ad-hoc, go to l.
k Choose the Authentication method using a or b, and press OK.
If you chose Open System, go to l.
If you chose Shared Key, go to m.
If you chose WPA/WPA2-PSK, go to p.
l Choose the Encryption type None or WEP using a or b, and press OK.
If you chose None, go to r.
If you chose WEP, go to m.
m Choose the key option KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, KEY4 using a or b , and press OK.
If you chose the key which shows **********, go to n.
If you chose a blank key, go to o.
n If you want to change the key you chose in m, press a or b to choose Change. Press OK. Go to o.
If you want to keep the key you chose in m, press a or b to choose Keep. Press OK. Go to r.
o Enter a new WEP key. Press OK. Go to r. (For information how to type text, see Entering Text
on page 179.)
p Choose the Encryption type, TKIP or AES using a or b. Press OK. Go to q.
q Enter the password and press OK. Go to r. (For information how to type text, see Entering Text
on page 179.)
r To apply the settings, choose Yes. To cancel, choose No.
If you chose Yes, go to s.
If you chose No, go back to g.
s The machine starts to connect to the wireless device you have chosen.
t If your wireless device is connected successfully, the display shows Connected for 60 seconds and
configuration is completed.
If the connection failed, the display shows Connection Failed for 60 seconds. (See Wireless
network troubleshooting on page 162.)
u Press OK.