Help Setting Up Ethernet-connected Brother Printer & Scanner

[deeplow]

Continuing the discussion from Can't Access SSD as Secondary Storage:

@jamesfr

1- I need help to install a Brother printer and scanner plugged on Ethernet on another network.

[deeplow]

@jamesfr can you explain what you’ve tried already and in what step you got stuck? Also have you read the community doc on this, yet? (doc: network printer)

[deeplow]

Moving @51lieal’s reply here so we keep therads organized

@51lieal

@jamesfr

I need help to install a Brother printer and scanner plugged on Ethernet on another network.

Try connecting the printer and scanner network with sys-net, you should be able connect from there.

[deeplow]

Quoting from the other thread:

@jamesfr

For the printer issue : I am using a Brother MFC-L8690CDW, which is plugged on Ethernet to my router, but Qubes is on another Internet Provider router… I tried to install the packages for Brother with a file that does install scanner and printer drivers, but it cannot connect to the IP address, and I noticed some failures during the installation.

[51lieal]

@jamesfr

For the printer issue : I am using a Brother MFC-L8690CDW, which is plugged on Ethernet to my router, but Qubes is on another Internet Provider router… I tried to install the packages for Brother with a file that does install scanner and printer drivers, but it cannot connect to the IP address, and I noticed some failures during the installation.

So you want connect to brother that attached to A network with your PC (qubes os) within B network right? for that case you should set up vpn on printer server and the PC (qubes os) connect to A network with vpn. It should work.