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Nobody answered this but it still works so I guess it's okay.

~ Jason

I'm a newbie and I have not attempted to install the scanner yet.

However, my first thought reading about your issue is to question if you are sure that the drivers are properly installed.
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David, no one answered my question about port forwarding. I am clueless and afraid to mess with my router's settings and mess up the settings for the printer in my Windows computer just to get the...

I do not know how to change the port forwarding in the router. Did you do that?

Also, I am afraid to mess with the router's setting because it is a shared printer and the printer is working...

Okay, going back to the printer again ... today the printer connection is suddenly not working. It worked fine when I last set it up and tested it out. It is Idle - "The printer is unreachable at...

Thanks, David! I have the same settings as you so it really helps to see what you did.

The only thing that I didn't put in was the BRN # in Location but it seemed to work without that.
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Ouch! I think I will skip that step and deal with the problem if we lose power. Luckily, it does not happen too often here. I am glad that I saw that caveat.

Thanks so much for your quick response. I will have this for future reference.

Our messages crossed because I updated my post to reflect that I was able to fix and install the required package...

I thought that worked because when I entered the IP, I was able to print a test page and got excited!

Then when I tried to print a document, it failed, so I have more work to do.

I found the...

Okay, I finally got the sudo issue resolved, thanks to your help. I wasn't able to do su or sudo from within the regular User account so I had to log in to the admin account.

Then at the...

I followed the confusing instructions on the Brother site for installing the printer drivers as best as I could. I am not sure how to find if I'm missing any of the required dependencies.

I...

That is odd. I just did what I did in Windows and created a new user account from the User section and that was the admin account. Then I added the regular user account. I don't know why that...

Thanks for your quick response and assistance. Here is the output.



me2 = regular account
me = admin account

I tried entering my regular account in uppercase and it didn't work so then...

I am still stuck on this issue.

As soon as I got the computer, I created two accounts. One is an admin account that I do not use and the other is a regular account with lesser privileges that I...

Thank you, PDC!

I will review all of the links and try to get this to work.

I will post my results tomorrow or some time this week.

Thanks again for the tip!

Thank you, PDC!

I will review all of the links and try to get this to work.

I will post my results tomorrow or some time this week.

Thanks again for the tip!

Thanks for your reply. I created two accounts.

One is an admin account that I do not use. The second is a regular account that I do use. When I installed the pinter drivers from Brother, i...

Thanks for your reply. I created two accounts.

One is an admin account that I do not use. The second is a regular account that I do use. When I installed the pinter drivers from Brother, i...

I am trying to install the printer drivers for the Brother MFC-7860DW wireless printer as per the instructions on Brother's site that was confirmed by Jaimie on this forum at:...

I need to install the printer and scanner drivers for the Brother MFC-7860DW, a wireless printer.

However, the drivers are not in the software repository. I did not find them in Synaptics either...