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
 
 
Wireless configuration for Windows
®
 using the Brother installer application (Not available for MFC-5490CN and MFC-5890CN)
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Note
• If a message to restart your PC appears after the wireless settings have been changed, restart your PC 
and then go back to step d and continue with the install skipping steps i , j and k.
• For Windows Vista
®
 users:
You can temporarily change the wireless settings on your computer, following the steps below:
1 Click   and then Control Panel.
2 Click Network and Internet and then Network and Sharing Center icon.
3 Click Connect to a network.
4 You can see the SSID of the wireless Brother machine in the list. Choose SETUP and click Connect.
5 Click Connect Anyway and then Close.
6 Click View status of Wireless Network Connection (SETUP).
7 Click Details... and check the Network Connection Details. It may take a few minutes to change 
from 0.0.0.0 to 169.254.x.x IP address to be shown on screen (where x.x. are numbers between 1 
and 254).
• For Windows
®
 XP SP2 users you can temporarily change the wireless settings on your PC, following the 
steps below:
1 Click Start and then Control Panel.
2 Click Network Connections icon.
3 Choose and right click Wireless Network Connection. Click View Available Wireless Networks.
4 You can see the Brother wireless machine in the list. Choose SETUP and click Connect.
5 Check the Wireless Network Connection status. It may take a few minutes to change from 0.0.0.0. 
to 169.254.x.x IP address to be shown on screen (where x.x. are numbers between 1 and 254).
l Choose the machine you wish to configure, and click Next. If the list is blank, check if the machine is 
powered on, and then click Refresh.










