Server User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 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-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
- Overview
- Confirm your network environment
- Wireless configuration temporarily using a USB cable (Recommended for Windows®)
- 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 (For IEEE 802.11b)
- 4 Control panel setup
- Overview
- Network menu (For HL-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
- Reset the network settings to the factory default
- Printing the Printer Settings Page (For HL-5450DN(T))
- Printing the Network Configuration Report (For HL-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
- Printing the WLAN report (For HL-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
- Function table and default factory settings
- 5 Web Based Management
- 6 Security features
- Overview
- 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
- Using Certificates for device security
- Managing multiple certificates
- 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-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
- 11 Additional network settings from Windows®
- Types of additional network settings
- Installing drivers used for printing via Web Services (Windows Vista® and Windows® 7)
- Uninstalling drivers used for printing via Web Services (Windows Vista® and Windows® 7)
- Network printing installation for Infrastructure mode when using Vertical Pairing (Windows® 7)
- 12 Security terms and concepts
- Section III: Appendixes
- Index
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Specifying your network 10
SSID (Service Set Identifier) and channels 10
You need to configure the SSID and a channel to specify the wireless network you want to connect to.
SSID
Each wireless network has its own unique network name and it is technically referred to as SSID. The
SSID is a 32-byte or less value and is assigned to the access point. The wireless network devices you
want to associate to the wireless network should match the access point. The access point and wireless
network devices regularly send wireless packets (referred to as a beacon) which has the SSID information.
When your wireless network device receives a beacon, you can identify the wireless network that is close
enough for the radio waves to reach your device.
Channels
Wireless networks use channels. Each wireless channel is on a different frequency. There are up to 14
different channels that can be used when using a wireless network. However, in many countries the
number of channels available is restricted.
Security terms 10
Authentication and encryption 10
Most wireless networks use some kind of security settings. These security settings define the authentication
(how the device identifies itself to the network) and encryption (how the data is encrypted as it is sent on the
network). If you do not correctly specify these options when you are configuring your Brother wireless
machine, it will not be able to connect to the wireless network. Therefore care must be taken when
configuring these options. Please see Supported protocols and security features uu page 107 for which
authentication and encryption methods your Brother wireless machine supports.
Wireless network terms and concepts
(For HL-5470DW(T) and HL-6180DW(T))
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