Setting the IP address and subnet mask; Using the BRAdmin Light utility to configure your network printer; BRAdmin Light- Page 19

Configuring your printer for a network with an Ethernet cable connection

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Setting the IP address and subnet mask

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Using the BRAdmin Light utility to configure your network printer

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BRAdmin Light

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The BRAdmin Light utility is designed for initial setup of Brother network connected devices. It can also 
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

®

 2000/XP, Windows Vista™, 

Windows Server

®

2003 and Mac OS

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 X 10.2.4 or greater.

Note

• Please use the BRAdmin Light utility version that was supplied on the CD-ROM with your Brother product. 

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

• If you require more advanced printer management, use the latest version of BRAdmin Professional utility 

that is available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com This utility is only available for Windows

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users.

• If you are using Personal Firewall software (e.g. Windows Firewall), disable it. Once you are sure that you 

can print, re-start your Personal Firewall software.

• Node name: Node name appears in current BRAdmin Light. The default Node name of the network card 

in the printer is “

BRNxxxxxx

” for a wired network or “

BRWxxxxxx

” for a wireless network (“

xxxxxx

” is the 

last six digits of Ethernet address.).

• The default password for Brother print servers is 

access

.

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Start the BRAdmin Light utility.

For Windows

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 2000/XP, Windows Vista™ and Windows Server

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2003 users

Click 

Start

 / 

All Programs

1

 / 

Brother

 / 

BRAdmin Light

 / 

BRAdmin Light

.

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Programs

 for Windows

®

 2000 users

For Mac OS

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 X 10.2.4 or greater users

Double-click 

Macintosh HD

(Startup Disk) / 

Library

 / 

Printers

 / 

Brother

 / 

Utilities / 

BRAdmin Light.jar

 file.

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BRAdmin Light will search for new devices automatically.