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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Network menu 6
Before using your Brother product in a network environment, you need to configure the correct TCP/IP 
settings.
In this chapter, you will learn how to configure the network settings using the control panel, located on the 
front of the machine.
The Network menu selections of the control panel allow you to set up the Brother machine for your network 
configuration. Press Menu, then press a or b to choose Network. Proceed to the menu selection you wish 
to configure. (See Function table and default factory settings on page 174.)
Please note that the machine is supplied with the BRAdmin Light software and Remote Setup applications 
for Windows
®
 and Macintosh
®
, which also can be used to configure many aspects of the network. (See Using 
the Remote Setup to change the print server settings (Not available for DCP models) on page 17 for a wired 
connection or Changing the print server settings on page 15 for a wireless connection.)
TCP/IP 6
If you connect the machine with the Ethernet cable to your network, use the Wired LAN menu selections. If 
you connect the machine to a wireless Ethernet network, use the WLAN menu selections.
This menu has 10 sections: BOOT Method, IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Node Name, 
WINS Config, WINS Server, DNS Server, APIPA and IPv6 (For MFC-5490CN, MFC-5890CN, 
MFC-6490CW, DCP-6690CW and MFC-6890CDW).
BOOT Method 6
This selection controls how the machine obtains an IP address. The default setting is Auto.
Note
If you do not want your print server configured via DHCP, BOOTP or RARP, you must set the 
BOOT Method to Static so that the print server has a static IP address. This will prevent the print server 
from trying to obtain an IP address from any of these systems. To change the BOOT Method, use the 
machine’s control panel, BRAdmin Light utility or Remote Setup.
a Press Menu.
b Press a or b to choose Network.
Press OK.
c (For Wired) Press a or b to choose Wired LAN.
(For Wireless) Press a or b to choose WLAN.
Press OK.
d Press a or b to choose TCP/IP.
Press OK.
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