Brother HL-3140CW User Manual
Network user’s guide
Network User’s Guide
Multi-Protocol On-board Ethernet Print Server and Wireless
Print Server
This Network User's Guide provides useful information on wired and
wireless network settings and security settings using your Brother
machine. You can also find supported protocol information and detailed
troubleshooting tips.
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Network User’s Guide
- Applicable models
- Definitions of notes
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Table of Contents
- Section I:
Network Operation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Changing your machine’s network settings
- 3
Configuring your machine for a wireless network (For HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- Overview
- Confirm your network environment
- Wireless configuration temporarily using a USB cable (Recommended)
- Configuration using the machine’s control panel Setup Wizard
- One push configuration using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) or AOSS™
- Configuration using the PIN Method of WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)
- Configuration in Ad-hoc mode
- 4
Control panel setup
- Overview
- Network menu
- TCP/IP
- Ethernet (wired network only)
- Wired Status (For HL-3150CDN, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- Setup Wizard (wireless network only)
- WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)/AOSS™ (wireless network only)
- WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) w/PIN Code (wireless network only)
- WLAN Status (For HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- MAC Address
- Set to Default (For HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- Wired Enable (For HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- WLAN Enable (For HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- Reset the network settings to the factory default
- Printing the Network Configuration Report
- Printing the WLAN report (For HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- Function table and default factory settings
- 5 Web Based Management
- 6
Security features
- Overview
- Using Certificates for device security
- Managing multiple certificates
- Managing your network machine securely using SSL/TLS
- Secure Management using BRAdmin Professional 3 (Windows®)
- Printing documents securely using SSL/TLS
- Sending an E-mail securely
- Using IEEE 802.1x authentication
- 7 Troubleshooting
- Section II:
Network Glossary
- 8 Types of network connections and protocols
- 9 Configuring your machine for a network
- 10 Wireless network terms and concepts (For HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDW and HL-3170CDW)
- 11
Additional network settings from Windows®
- Types of additional network settings
- Installing drivers used for printing via Web Services (Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 and Windows® 8)
- Uninstalling drivers used for printing via Web Services (Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 and Windows® 8)
- Network printing installation for Infrastructure mode when using Vertical Pairing (Windows® 7 and Windows® 8)
- 12 Security terms and concepts
- Section III: Appendixes
- Index