How Windows XP system sets up printer Sharing

For office supplies, printers are essential equipment in the office. But there are so many employees in an office, it is impossible to configure a printer for everyone, this time will be sharing the printer. Windows XP system How to set up Printer sharing, this article will be detailed for you to introduce!

Simple setting of home network environment in general, several computers in your home are connected by a switch (or perhaps a hub or router). Wireless is now popular, and many are connected by wireless routers.

Routers or switches in the general home have the ability to set IP addresses automatically. So we can set the IP address to automatically obtain.

Start-> Right-click the Network Neighborhood-> property-> Right-click Local Connection-> Properties-> Double-click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-> to select all IP addresses and DNS servers automatically.

Firewall settings

If the firewall is open on Windows XP, you need to open a file-sharing channel. Operate on all computers:

In the properties of our local connection, click the Advanced tab, set the-> exception tab under Windows Firewall-> the file and printer share on the hook-> press OK to exit.

Set up printer Sharing

For convenience, we call the machine attached to the printer A, and the machine on the other home network that uses the printer is called B.

To facilitate our connection, we found the computer name on machine A. Start-> My Computer-> Properties-> dot Open the Computer name tab-> Copy the full computer name.

We set up the share on a machine:

Start-> setup-> printer and fax-> Right click on your printer-> share.

Point share this printer-> share name can not change it (default is your printer model)-> Point other driver-> if the other printer's machine is not Windows XP, you need to hook up the corresponding system model (Windows XP is already hooked by default) -> Press OK to exit.

Connected to A machine on the B machine:

Start-> Run, and then take down the computer name of a machine, in the operation of the computer name added. For example, the computer called Computer1 to play Computer1, and then press ENTER.

At this time found that your printer appears, right button-> press connection.

The Point on the dialog box appears is.

Then the printer is connected. This shared printer can be used like a local printer. You will see one more shared printer in the printer list.

The above is the Windows XP system how to set up Printer sharing method, hope to help everyone!