Setting the IP address and subnet mask; Using the BRAdmin Light utility to configure your machine as a network printer; BRAdmin Light- Page 20

Configuring your machine for a network

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Setting the IP address and subnet mask

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

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BRAdmin Light

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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

®

2000/XP, Windows Vista

®

, 

Windows Server

®

2003 and Mac OS

®

X 10.2.4 or greater.

How to configure your machine using the BRAdmin Light utility

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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 Brother BRAdmin Light utility version from http://solutions.brother.com/.

• 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 personal Firewall software, disable it. Once you are sure that you can print, re-start your 

personal Firewall software.

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

card in the printer is “BRNxxxxxxxxxxxx”.

• The default password for Brother print servers is “

access

”.

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Start the BRAdmin Light utility.

„

For Windows

®

 2000/XP, Windows Vista

®

 and Windows Server

®

 2003 users

Click 

Start

 / 

All Programs

1

 / 

Brother

 / 

BRAdmin Light

 / 

BRAdmin Light

.

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Programs 

for Windows

®

 2000 users

„

For Mac OS

®

 X 10.2.4 or greater users

Double-click 

Mac OS X

 or 

Macintosh HD

 (Startup Disk) / 

Library

 / 

Printers

 / 

Brother

 / 

Utilities

 / 

BRAdmin Light.jar

 file.

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BRAdmin Light will search for new devices automatically.