Add Printer Share Lq 310 on Windows Server 2008
Printing with Windows
Sharing Your Printer
This department describes how to share your printer so that other computers on a network can employ information technology.
The computer on a network tin can share the printer that is directly connected to 1 of them. The computer that is directly continued to the printer is the printer server, and the other computers are the clients which demand permission to share the printer with the printer server. The clients share the printer via the printer server.
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To connect your printer directly to a network without setting it upwards as a shared printer, consult your network ambassador.
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For Windows XP
Setting up your printer as a shared printer
To share a printer that is continued directly to your reckoner with others on a network, follow the steps beneath.
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Click Starting time, so click Printers and Faxes. |
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Right-click your printer icon, and click Sharing. If the following menu appears, click Network Setup Wizard or If you understand the security risks but want to share printers without running the wizard, click here, and follow the on-screen instruction. |
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Select Share this printer, and type the name in the Share name box. |
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Click OK. |
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Practice not choose any drivers from the Additional Drivers list.
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Accessing the shared printer
To access the shared printer from another computer on a network, follow the steps below.
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Your printer must be ready as a shared resource on the computer to which it is directly connected before yous can access it from another computer.
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Install the printer driver to the client reckoner from the software CD-ROM. |
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Click Beginning, and and then click Printers and Faxes. Right-click your printer’due south icon, and open the Properties for your printer. |
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Click the Ports tab, and click Add Port. |
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Select Local Port, then click New Port. |
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In the text box, type the following information: |
\\name of computer that is connected to the printer\name of the shared printer
Then click
OK.
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Shut the Printer Ports dialog box to return to the Ports menu. |
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On the Ports card, make certain that the new port is added and the cheque box is selected. Click OK to close the Properties. |
For Windows 2000
Setting upwardly your printer as a shared printer
To share a printer that is connected directly to your computer with others on a network, follow the steps below.
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Click Kickoff, indicate to Settings, and then click Printers. |
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Select your printer, then click Sharing on the File carte du jour. |
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Select Shared as, and enter the name in the Share Proper name text box. |
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Click OK. |
Accessing the shared printer
To access the shared printer from some other computer on a network, follow the steps below.
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Your printer must be set up equally a shared resources on the computer to which information technology is straight connected before y’all can access it from another figurer.
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Install the printer driver to the client reckoner from the software CD-ROM. |
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Open up the Printer binder from the Command Panel, right-click your printer’due south icon, and open the Properties for your printer. |
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Click the Ports tab, and click Add together Port. |
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Select Local Port, and click New Port. |
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In the text box, type the following information: |
\\proper noun of calculator that is continued to the printer\name of the shared printer
And then click
OK.
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When you enter the data, the Cancel push button on the Printer Ports dialog box changes to the Shut button. Click Close to return to the Ports menu. |
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On the Ports menu, make sure that the new port is added and the check box is selected. Click OK to close the printer driver. |
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