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
Network printing from Windows
®
basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing
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7
Printer driver already installed 7
If you have already installed the printer driver and wish to configure it for network printing, follow these steps:
a (Windows
®
7)
Click the button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then Device and Printers.
(Windows Vista
®
)
Click the button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then Printers.
(Windows Server
®
2008)
Click the Start button, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, and then Printers.
(Windows
®
XP and Windows Server
®
2003)
Click the Start button and choose Printers and Faxes.
(Windows
®
2000)
Click the Start button and choose Settings and then Printers.
b (Windows
®
7)
Choose the printer driver you wish to configure, and then click Print server properties from the menu.
(Other Windows
®
Operating Systems)
Right click on the printer driver you wish to configure, and then choose Properties.
c Click the Ports tab and click Add Port.
d Choose the port that you wish to use. Typically this would be Standard TCP/IP Port. Then click the
New Port... button.
e (Windows
®
7)
The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard will start.
(Other Windows
®
Operating Systems)
The Standard TCP/IP Port Wizard will start.
f Enter the IP address of your network printer. Click Next.
g Click Finish.
h (Windows
®
7)
Close Printer Ports and Printer Server Properties dialog box.
(Other Windows
®
Operating Systems)
Close Printer Ports and Properties dialog box.