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
Introduction
2
1
Network features 1
Your Brother machine has the following basic network functions.
Network printing 1
The print server provides printing services for Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
, Windows
®
7 and
Windows Server
®
2003/2008 supporting the TCP/IP protocols and Macintosh (Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.6.x)
supporting TCP/IP.
Network scanning 1
You can scan documents over the network to your computer. (See Network Scanning in the Software User’s
Guide.)
Mac OS X 10.6.x users can also scan documents using the ICA Scanner Driver. (See Scanning a document
using the ICA driver (Mac OS X 10.6.x) in the Software User’s Guide.)
Network PC-FAX (Not available for DCP models) 1
You can directly send a PC file as a PC-FAX over your network. (See Brother PC-FAX Software for Windows
®
and Sending a Fax for Macintosh in the Software User’s Guide for a complete description.) Windows
®
users
can also use PC-FAX receive
1
. (See PC-FAX receiving in the Software User’s Guide.)
1
PC-Fax Receive is not supported by the MFC-J265W, MFC-J270W, MFC-J410W and MFC-J415W.
Network PhotoCapture Center™ 1
You can view, retrieve and save data from a USB flash memory drive or a media card inserted into the Brother
machine. The software is automatically installed when you choose network connection during the software
installation. For Windows
®
, choose the PHOTOCAPTURE tab of ControlCenter3. For more information, see
ControlCenter3 in the Software User’s Guide. For Macintosh, launch any web browser in which FTP is
available and enter FTP://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your Brother machine).
For more information, see Remote Setup & PhotoCapture Center in the Software User’s Guide.
Management utilities 1
BRAdmin Light 1
BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of network connected Brother devices. This utility can search for
Brother products on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address.
The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows
®
2000/XP, Windows Vista
®
, Windows
®
7 and Windows
Server
®
2003/2008 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.6.x computers. For Macintosh users, BRAdmin Light will be
installed automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already installed the printer driver, you
don’t have to install it again.
For more information on BRAdmin Light, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/