Printer sharing settings for Office LANs

Printer Sharing is the most common practice in the office LAN, one printer equipment is a waste of resources, and increase the cost and burden of management maintenance, so the sharing of printers is not only conducive to enterprise management and can save the use cost. To provide this service, you need to enable printer sharing by following these steps:

Connection

To detect LAN connectivity, small offices typically pass (router) links.

Installing drivers that are connected to the printer

The second is to enable the "File and Printer Sharing protocol" on other computers in the local area network. It is important to remind you that you cannot find a shared printer. The way to do this is: Network Neighborhood--right--local connection--right------Install the protocol--check "Allow other users to access my files (F)" and "Allow others to use my printer (P)".

Provide services (shared side)

Open Printers and Faxes.

Right-click the printer you want to share, and then click Share. Depending on whether sharing is enabled on the computer, the options on the Sharing tab vary. To learn what to do next, on the Sharing tab, click the option that has the appropriate description.

You must turn on printer sharing you need to run the Network Setup Wizard to enable printer sharing. First click the link on the Sharing tab, and then execute the system instructions to start the share. To display options for sharing or not sharing a printer:

1. On the Sharing tab, click Share this printer, and then type the share name.

Use Printer Sharing services (client side)

1. On the client side, open "Printers and Faxes."

2. Select Add Printer, start the Add Printer Wizard, and click Next.

3. Select "Network printer or printer connected to another computer", click Next.

4. Select Connect to this printer (or browse the printer and click Next), enter the name of the shared printer, format: \\printserver_name\share_name, click Next.

5. The system requires the installation of a printer driver, the installation prompts, click "OK" button, select the corresponding driver for the printer installation, according to the system prompts to complete the installation.