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
•Please use the BRAdmin Light utility that was supplied on the
•If you require more advanced printer management, use the latest version of 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
•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/.
b BRAdmin Light will search for new devices automatically.
2
15