Network User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- NETWORK USER’S GUIDE
- Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes
- Compilation and publication notice
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Brother numbers
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Configuring your machine for a network with an Ethernet cable connection (DCP-J715W, MFC-J615W and MFC-J630W only)
- 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 3 utility to change the wireless settings (Windows®)
- Using the Remote Setup to change the print server settings (MFC-J615W and MFC-J630W only) (Not available for Windows Server® 2003/2008)
- Using the control panel to change the print server settings
- 3 Configuring your machine for a wireless network
- 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 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 installation CD-ROM to configure your wireless network machine
- Configuring your machine for a wireless network
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel
- Using WPS or AOSS™ from the control panel menu to configure your machine for a wireless network
- Using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi Protected Setup
- Using the Brother automatic installer application on the installation CD-ROM to configure your machine for a wireless network
- 4 Wireless configuration using the Brother installer application
- 5 Control panel setup
- Network menu
- Restoring the network settings to factory default
- Printing the Network Configuration List
- Printing the WLAN Report
- 6 Driver Deployment Wizard (Windows® only)
- 7 Network printing from Windows® basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing
- 8 Network printing from a Macintosh
- 9 Troubleshooting
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Index
Configuring your machine for a wireless network
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3
Using WPS or AOSS™ from the control panel menu to configure your machine
for a wireless network 3
If your wireless access point supports either Wi-Fi Protected Setup (PBC
1
) or AOSS™ (one-push method),
you can configure the machine easily without a computer. Your Brother machine has the WPS/AOSS™ menu
available from the control panel. This feature automatically detects which mode your access point uses, Wi-Fi
Protected Setup or AOSS™. By pushing a button on the wireless access point/router, you can setup the
wireless network and security settings. See the User’s Guide for your wireless access point/router for
instructions on how to access one-push mode.
1
Push Button Configuration
Note
Routers or access points that support Wi-Fi Protected Setup or AOSS™ have the appropriate symbols
shown below.
a Press Menu.
b Press a or b to choose Network.
Press OK.
c For DCP-J715W, MFC-J615W and MFC-J630W
Press a or b to choose WLAN.
Press OK.
d Press a or b to choose WPS/AOSS.
Press OK.
This feature will automatically detect which mode (Wi-Fi Protected Setup or AOSS™) your access point
uses to configure your machine.
Note
If your wireless access point supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (PIN Method) and you want to configure your
machine using the PIN (Personal Identification Number) Method, see Using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi
Protected Setup on page 34.
e When Enable WLAN? or Network I/F switched to Wireless. is displayed, press OK to
accept.
This will start the wireless setup wizard.
To cancel, press Stop/Exit.