Configuring your machine for a network

Setting the IP address and subnet mask

Using the BRAdmin Light utility to configure your machine as a network printer

BRAdmin Light

The BRAdmin Light utility is designed for initial setup of the Brother network connected devices. It also can search for Brother products in a TCP/IP environment, view the status and configure basic network settings,

such as IP address. The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2003/2008 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 to 10.6.x.

How to configure your machine using the BRAdmin Light utility

Note

•You can also download the latest Brother BRAdmin Light utility from http://solutions.brother.com/.

•If you require more advanced printer management, use the latest BRAdmin Professional 3 utility that is available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com/. This utility is only available for Windows® users.

•If you are using a firewall function of anti-spyware or antivirus applications, temporarily disable them. Once you are sure that you can print, configure the software settings following the instructions.

•Node name: Node name appears in the current BRAdmin Light window. The default node name of the print server in the machine is “BRNxxxxxxxxxxxx” for a wired network or “BRWxxxxxxxxxxxx” for a wireless network. (“xxxxxxxxxxxx” is your machine’s MAC Address / Ethernet Address.)

•The default password for Brother print servers is “access”.

a Start the BRAdmin Light utility.

„For Windows®

Click Start / All Programs / Brother / BRAdmin Light / BRAdmin Light.

„For Macintosh

Download the latest BRAdmin Light utility from http://solutions.brother.com/.

Double-clickMacintosh HD (Startup Disk) / Library / Printers / Brother / Utilities / BRAdmin Light.jar file.

b BRAdmin Light will search for new devices automatically.

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