Troubleshooting and routine maintenance

Network difficulties (continued)

 

 

Difficulties

Suggestions

The network scanning feature

(Windows Vista®):

does not work.

a Click the Start button, Control Panel, Network and Internet,

The network printing feature does

not work.

Windows Firewall and click Change settings.

(continued)

b When the User Account Control screen appears, do the following.

 

 

„ Users who have administrator rights: Click Continue.

 

„ For users who do not have administrator rights: Enter the

 

administrator password and click OK.

c Make sure that Windows Firewall on the General tab is set to On. d Click the Exceptions tab.

e Click the Add port... button.

f To add port 54925 for network scanning, enter the information below:

1.In Name: Enter any description. (for example “Brother Scanner”)

2.In Port number: Enter “54925”.

3.Make sure UDP is chosen. Then click OK.

 

g Click the Add port... button.

 

 

h Make sure that the new setting is added and is checked, and then click

 

 

Apply.

 

 

i If you still have trouble with your network connection such as network

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scanning or printing, check File and Printer Sharing box in the

 

Exceptions tab and then click Apply.

 

Your computer cannot find your

(Windows®) The firewall setting on your PC may be rejecting the necessary

 

machine.

network connection. (For details, see the instructions above.)

 

 

(Macintosh®) Re-select your machine in the Device Selector application located

 

 

in Macintosh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/DeviceSelector or from

 

 

the Model pop-up menu of ControlCenter2.

 

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