Introduction

Management utilities

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BRAdmin Light

BRAdmin Light is a utility for initial setup of network connected Brother devices. This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view the status and configure basic network settings, such as IP address.

The BRAdmin Light utility is available for Windows® 2000/XP and Windows Vista® and Mac OS® X 10.2.4 (or greater) computers. For installing BRAdmin Light on Windows®, please see the Quick Setup Guide we

provided with the machine. For Macintosh® users, BRAdmin Light will be installed automatically when you install the printer driver. If you have already installed the printer driver, you don’t have to install it again.

For more information on BRAdmin Light, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.

BRAdmin Professional (for Windows®)

BRAdmin Professional is a utility for more advanced management of network connected Brother devices. This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view their status and configure the network

settings from a computer running Windows® system. BRAdmin Professional has additional features from BRAdmin Light.

For more information and downloading, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.

Web BRAdmin (for Windows®)

Web BRAdmin is a utility for managing network connected Brother devices on your LAN and WAN. This utility can search for Brother products on your network, view its status and configure the network settings. Unlike

BRAdmin Professional, which is designed for Windows® only, Web BRAdmin is a server based utility that can be accessed from any client PC with a web browser that supports JRE (Java Runtime Environment). By

installing the Web BRAdmin server utility on a PC running IIS 1, connect to the Web BRAdmin server, which then communicates with the device itself.

For more information and downloading, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.

1Internet Information Server 4.0 or Internet Information Service 5.0/5.1/6.0/7.0

Remote Setup (Not available for DCP models)

The Remote Setup software allows you to configure network settings from a Windows® PC or Macintosh® (Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater) computer. (See Remote Setup in the Software User’s Guide.)

Internet Fax/Scan to E-mail Server (MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW: standard,

MFC-5890CN: available as a download)

The Brother machine can be assigned an E-mail address allowing you to send, receive or forward documents over a Local Area Network or the Internet to PC’s or other Internet Fax machines. Before using this function, you have to configure the necessary machine settings by using the machine’s control panel. For details, see Internet fax and Scan to E-mail (For MFC-6490CW and MFC-6890CDW)on page 141.

For MFC-5890CN

In order to use this function, please download the necessary software from our web site The Brother Solutions Center. (http://solutions.brother.com)

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