How to set up Printer sharing in Windows XP

　How to set up Printer sharing in XP system

　　Set the local printer as a shared printer so that other users on the local area network can also use it.
① open Printers and Faxes from the Start menu;



② after entering the Printers and Faxes window, right-click the printer you want to share, and then select Share;



③ in the pop-up window we select "Share" and "Share this printer", and start a share name "lichaoMP140", and then determine;



④ at this time, it will be our computer to set up a shared printer, the printer icon than before a "small hand", which means that we set up a successful sharing, this printer can be used in the local area network by other users.



　　Second, how to find a shared printer, and through the local area of the shared printer to print?

Just speaking of the local installation service side, now is the installation of the client, as long as the addition of this shared printer can achieve network sharing print;

① When you perform the third step of adding a printer, select Network printer and click Next, where you can set up a way to find a printer;



② If a user wants to find a printer in a workgroup, you can click Next to eject the Find Printer dialog box. Because inside the LAN, you can choose to "type the printer name, or click ' Next ' to browse the printer" single option.



③ users can enter the printer name or click "Next" to eject the "Browse for Printer" dialog box. Here, the Shared printers list box lists all the shared printers in the domain and the computers that are connected to the printer. If you have more than one printer in your local area network, you can find a printer that works for you here.



④ Click the "Next" button, in the pop-up dialog box, the user can set whether the printer is set as the default printer.



⑤ Click "Next" button, in the pop-up dialog box, show the user settings of the network printer, click "Finish", you can use the same as the local printer to use the network printer.

Small Tips

If you want to access another computer, still desktop-> start-> Control Panel-> printer and other hardware, there is a add printer, click the next step, then select "Network printer or connect to other computer printer", You can then find the name of the printer you want to access in the list of network printers, or you can also find the IP of the other computer directly.