How is LAN printer sharing set up? How do I set up printer sharing?

How does LAN Printer sharing work? How do I set up printer sharing?

To achieve two printers or multiple printer sharing, first of all to understand how to set up and share a local area network printer computer printer, after the need to solve the LAN on the other computers how to find the computer that was shared with the printer, and connect to use. If you can understand the above, I believe that the realization of sharing is much simpler, the following to see the time LAN in the Printer sharing setup detailed steps.

Before sharing the print, please make sure that the computer of the sharer and the user's computer are in the same LAN, and that the LAN is unblocked, and the operating system should be the same. Next look at the following actions.

A. On a computer with a printer, share the printer

The first step: first, verify that the shared printer is connected to the boot state, and has installed the printer driver, and can achieve normal printing, for the driver installation is not described here. (The two computers that are actually operating this time are all Windows XP Professional operating systems).

Step two: Share the actual operation of the printer. As an example of the Canon PIXMA MP145 multifunction Machine (part of the Canon MP 140 series), this is an all-in-one machine that does not have a network function, but can be shared after a computer is connected and then set accordingly.

① do the following on a computer with a printer:

Go to the beginning----directly find the printer and fax, directly into the can, as shown below:

If the "Printers and Faxes" entry is not found in the Start menu, you can go to the start-Settings---Control Panel.

② Enter the printer and fax Center as shown in the following figure:

Then click on the printer by the key--select share as above. After that, enter the following printer sharing operator interface.

As shown above, click on "Share this printer" and start a share name "lichaoMP140", then click "OK" button, then return to "Printer and fax Center", as shown below:

The printer sharing settings have been successful since you saw a hand tag on the printer icon from the image above.

Here basically about the printer sharing use has been set to half, the next thing to do is how to find the printer and use the computer in the LAN.

Second, the local area network other computers how to find a shared printer and use

How does printer sharing work? How do computers in other local area networks view the printers that were just starting to set up a shared printer? The most primitive way to know is to go to the Network Neighborhood--look at the entire Web Working group, to slowly look for shared printers.

This is not recommended in the above method of looking for printers, here to teach you how to quickly find a common lane out of the printer, the method is as follows:

① first go back to the computer with the printer, what is needed here is the IP address with the printer computer, get the IP method as follows:

In the computer with the printer, start-run, enter "cmd enter" in the run, hit the Enter button, then enter "ipconfig" in the popup interface, and then hit the Enter button, the first line is the IP address of this computer. The following figure:

This time you have to use the pen to remember the resulting IP address, such as the above 192.168.1.103 is the IP address of the printer computer.

② with the printer's computer's IP address, then the other LAN on the computer can be very simple to find a shared printer, the operation is as follows.

Find a shared printer on a computer in another LAN and use the following method:

① everything starts with start, click Start-Run, and then pop up the following image:

② in the Run dialog box, enter the IP address of the computer that is connected to the print device in the LAN, "192.168.1.103". The following figure:

Then click OK in the image above to find the Shared service printer, as shown below.

Here is the end of the basic, now you can start to test the printing on this computer, in the test when the choice of printer when choosing to share the printer, as shown below.

Finally, through remote control, to achieve the shared printing effect: