Hi All,

I have a printer and about 10 computers. The printer is directly connected to one of the computers and the computers are all connected to a switch on the LAN.

Can somebody please tell me how I can make the systems share the printer and see each other,


Some of the ststems have XP pro. whike some have Windows 2000.

Thanks for your expected response.

To share a printer on a LAN, do the following:

on the computer directly connected to the printer:
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[li]Click Start -> Control Panel -> Printers And Other Hardware -> Printers And Faxes. [/li]
[li]Click the printer you wish to share. (You must've installed the printer driver here)[/li]
[li]Click Share This Printer in the Task Pane. [/li]
[li]In the printer's Properties dialog, click the Sharing tab. [/li]
[li]Click Share Name and OK. [/li]

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Once a printer has been shared you can access it from other computers on the network. To do so:
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[li]Click Start -> Control Panel -> Printers And Other Hardware.  [/li]
[li]Click Add A Printer. [/li]
[li]In the Add New Printer wizard, when asked whether the printer is a local or network printer, select the latter. [/li]
[li]In the next screen, select the option to Browse For A Printer and click Next. [/li]
[li]Select the appropriate printer from the list and continue with the wizard. [/li]
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Don't forget to print a test page to verify your config.

Contract it out,i would be willing to help at a token, what he said earlier sounds easy but you might end up mot seeing all the computers on your network, call me on 08034087776

Ynot's solution would SURELY work!

thanks ynot,

i actually followes thesteps u gave me. i was able to share the printer, but when igot to adding the printer on the other computers, i got stuck after browsing for the printer.

i use printer1 as the printer name. but each time i type it in the dialog box, it tells me that the name specified is wrong.

do i have to install a driver on the clients machine. Windows automatically detected the printer to which itwas attached, so i wont say i have a driver installed on the server.

what do u think i should do?

thanks

@aadewale

No, you just don't put in the printer's name, you have to specify which system the printer is locally connected to.

Say the printer is connected to a system named "SYS1", follow these steps on the client systems

- Click Start -> Control Panel -> Printers And Other Hardware.
- Click Add A Printer.
- In the Add New Printer wizard, when asked whether the printer is a local or network printer, select the latter.
- In the next screen this time, select "Connect to this printer then click next.
- In the space for "printer", type in : \\SYS1\printer name, click on next
- You should then get a confirmation warning you that you are about to connect to a network printer.

Don't worry about installing the drivers on the client systems, performing the above steps would automatically install the necessary driver.