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Overview

Your Brother machine can be shared on a 10/100 Mb wired or IEEE 802.11b/802.11g wireless Ethernet network using the internal network print server. The print server supports various functions and methods of connection depending on the operating system you are running on a network supporting TCP/IP. These functions include printing, scanning, PC Fax send, PC Fax receive, Remote Setup and Status Monitor. The following chart shows what network features and connections are supported by each operating system.

Operating Systems

Windows® 2000/XP

Windows Server®

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or

 

Windows® XP

2003/2008

greater

 

Windows Server® 2003

 

 

Professional x64

 

 

Edition

x64 Edition

 

 

Windows Vista®

 

 

10/100BASE-TX wired Ethernet

r

r

r

(TCP/IP)

 

 

 

IEEE 802.11b/g wireless

r

r

r

Ethernet (TCP/IP) 1

 

 

 

Printing

r

r

r

BRAdmin Light

r

r

r

 

 

 

 

BRAdmin Professional 3 2

r

r

 

Web BRAdmin 2

r

r

 

BRPrint Auditor 3

r

r

 

Web Based Management

r

r

r

(web browser)

 

 

 

Internet Printing (IPP)

r

r

 

Scanning

r

 

r

PC Fax Send 4

r

 

r

PC Pax Receive 4

r

 

 

Remote Setup 4

r

 

r

Status Monitor

r

 

r

Driver Deployment Wizard

r

r

 

 

 

 

 

1Only the MFC-9320CW has IEEE 802.11b/802.11g wireless Ethernet (TCP/IP) available.

2BRAdmin Professional and Web BRAdmin are available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com/.

3Available when using BRAdmin Professional 3 or Web BRAdmin with devices that are connected to your client PC via the USB interface.

4Not available for MFC-9010CN and DCP-9010CN

To use the Brother machine through a network, you need to configure the print server, and set up the computers you use.

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