1 Introduction

Overview

Your Brother machine can be shared on a 10/100 Mb wired or IEEE 802.11b/802.11g wireless Ethernet network using the internal network print server. The print server supports various functions and methods of connection depending on the operating system you are running on a network supporting TCP/IP. These functions include printing, scanning, PC Fax send, PC Fax receive, Remote Setup and Status Monitor. The following chart shows what network features and connections are supported by each operating system.

Operating Systems	Windows^® 2000/XP Windows^® XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Vista^®	Windows Server^® 2003/2008 Windows Server^® 2003 x64 Edition	Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater
10/100BASE-TX wired Ethernet (TCP/IP)
IEEE 802.11b/g wireless Ethernet (TCP/IP)¹
Printing
BRAdmin Light
BRAdmin Professional 3²
Web BRAdmin²
BRPrint Auditor³
Web Based Management (web browser)
Internet Printing (IPP)
Scanning
PC Fax Send⁴
PC Pax Receive⁴
Remote Setup⁴
Status Monitor
Driver Deployment Wizard

¹	Only the MFC-8890DW has IEEE 802.11b/802.11g wireless Ethernet (TCP/IP) available.
²	BRAdmin Professional 3 and Web BRAdmin are available as a download from http://solutions.brother.com/.
³	Available when using BRAdmin Professional 3 or Web BRAdmin with devices that are connected to your client PC via the USB or parallel interface.
⁴	Not available for DCP-8080DN and DCP-8085DN

To use the Brother machine through a network, you need to configure the print server, and set up the computers you use.

Page Top