1 Introduction

Network features

Your Brother machine can be shared on a 10/100 MB wired, or IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless Ethernet network using the internal network scan server. The scan server supports various functions and methods of connection depending on the operating system you are running on a network supporting TCP/IP. The following chart shows what network features and connections are supported by each operating system.

Operating Systems	Windows^® XP Windows Vista^® Windows^® 7	Mac OS X v10.6.x, 10.7.x
Scanning See the User’s Guide.
BRAdmin Light¹ See Using the BRAdmin Light utility.
BRAdmin Professional 3² See BRAdmin Professional 3 utility (Windows^®).
Web Based Management (web browser) See Web Based Management.
Remote Setup See the User’s Guide.
Status Monitor See the User’s Guide.
Driver Deployment Wizard
Vertical Pairing See Network scanning installation for Infrastructure mode when using Vertical Pairing (Windows^® 7).	³

¹	BRAdmin Light for Macintosh is available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com/.
²	BRAdmin Professional 3 is available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com/.
³	Windows^® 7 only.

Other Network features

LDAP

The LDAP protocol allows you to search for information such as E-mail addresses from your server. When you use the Scan to E-mail server feature, you can use the LDAP search to find E-mail addresses. (See LDAP operation.)

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Scan to E-mail Server

Scan to E-mail Server allows you to send scanned documents using the Internet as the transport mechanism. (See Scan to E-mail Server.)

Before using this function, you have to configure the necessary machine settings by using the machine’s control panel, BRAdmin Professional 3 or Web Based Management.

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Security

Your Brother machine employs some of the latest network security and encryption protocols available. (See Security features.)

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