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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 provides printing services for Windows® XP,

Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2003/2008 supporting the TCP/IP protocols and Macintosh supporting TCP/IP (Mac OS X 10.4.11 to 10.6.x). The following chart shows what network features and connections are supported by each operating system.

Operating Systems

Windows® XP

Mac OS X 10.4.11 to 10.6.x

 

Windows Vista®

 

 

Windows Server® 2003/2008

 

 

Windows® 7

 

10/100BASE-TX Wired Ethernet

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(TCP/IP)

 

 

IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet

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(TCP/IP) 1

 

 

Printing

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BRAdmin Light 2

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BRAdmin Professional 3 2

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Web BRAdmin 2

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BRPrint Auditor 2 3

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Web Based Management

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(web browser)

 

 

Internet Printing (IPP)

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Status Monitor 4

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Driver Deployment Wizard

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1Only the HL-3075CW has IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless Ethernet (TCP/IP) available.

2BRAdmin Light (for Macintosh), BRAdmin Professional 3, Web BRAdmin and BRPrint Auditor (for Windows®) 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 USB.

4For more information, see the User’s Guide on the CD-ROM.

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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