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To connect your machine to your network, you need to follow the steps in the Quick Setup Guide. We
recommend that you use the Broth er installer application on the CD-ROM which w e have provided with the
machine. By using this application, you can easily connect your machine to your network and install the
network software and printer driver which you need to complete the configuration of your machine for a
network. You will be guided by the on -screen instructions until you are able to use you r Brother network
printer.
If you are a Windows® user and want to config ure your machine without using the Brother installer
application, use the TCP/IP protoc ol in a Peer-to-Peer environment. Please follo w the instructions in this
chapter. This chapter explains how to install the network software and the printer driver which you will need
to be able to print using your network printer.
Note
• You must configure the IP address on your machine before you proceed with this chapter. If you need to
configure the IP address, see Setting up the IP address and subnet mask on page 12 first.
• Ver ify the host computer and the machine are eit her on the same subnet, or that the router is properly
configured to pass data between the two devices.
• If you are connecting to a Network Print Queue or Share (printing only), see Installation when using a
Network Print Queue or Share (prin ter driver only) on page151 for installation details.
• For MFC-5490CN, MFC-5890CN, MFC-6490CW and DCP-6690CW, the default password is “access“.
For other models, no password is re quired by default.
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