You may know about printer sharing, if not then here is the topic about printer sharing. So first you should know What is printer sharing ? That means use one printer in multiple computers on the network. For example you installed a printer in one computer after sharing the printer you can access this printer in any other computer on the network to give prints.
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Share A Printer Over LAN |
Steps:
- The 4 computers should have networking using a Ethernet switch to communicate each other .
- Go to the Office1 PC, on which you have installed a printer, Click on Start go to Control Panel, double click on "Printers and Faxes" Now you can see the printers you have installed.
- Right click on the printer you want to share, here HP laser jet P1007 then click on Sharing.
- You will see two options, Do not share this printer and Share this printer, Click on Share this printer then Click Apply then OK.
- Now go to PC1 Click Start ---> Run or Press Windows Key + R to open RUN dialog box, type the computer name followed by backward slash for you its \\office1 and press ENTER.
- The shared resource of office1 computer will appear, Double click on the printer (HP Laser Jet), now you will get a message (See below screen shot Figure 1) Click Yes and wait for few seconds.
Figure 1 |
That's all now you can use the printer on PC1, for PC2 and PC3 repeat the step 5 and 6.
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