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back to contents page Setting Up for Shared Printing Point and Print P e e r-t o-P e e r You can share your new printer on the network using the Drivers and Utilities CD that shipped with your printer, or using Microsoft® point and print or peer-topeer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft methods, you will not have all the features, such as the status monitor and other printer utilities, that are installed with the Drivers and Utilities CD. To share a locally-attached printer on the network, you need to share the printer, and then install the shared printer on network clients: For Windows® XP, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows Server® 2003, and Windows 2000: 1. Click Start® Settings® Printers and Faxes (Printers for Windows 2000). 2. Right-click this printer icon and select Properties. 3. From the Sharing tab, check the Share this printer (Share as for Windows 2000) check box, and then type a name in the Share name (Share as for Windows 2000) text box. 4. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 5. Click OK. If you are missing files, you will be prompted to insert the server operating system CD. For Windows Vista®: 1. Click Start® Control Panel. 2. Select Printer. 3. Right-click this printer icon and select Sharing. 4. Click Change sharing options button. 5. The dialog box displaying "Windows needs your permission to continue" appears. 6. Click Continue button. 7. Check the Share this printer check box, and then type a name in the Share name text box. 8. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 9. Click OK. For Windows Server® 2008: 1. Click Start® Control Panel® Printers. 2. Right-click the printer icon and select Sharing. 3. Check the Share this printer check box, and then type a name in the Share name text box. 4. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 5. Click OK. To check that the printer is successfully shared: l Ensure that the printer object in the Printers and Faxes (Printers for Windows 2000) folder is shared. For example, in Windows 2000, a hand is shown underneath the printer icon. l Browse My Network Places. Find the host name of the server and look for the shared name you assigned to the printer. Now that the printer is shared, you can install the printer on network clients using the point and print method or the peer-to-peer method. Point and Print

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Setting Up for Shared Printing
Point and Print
Peer
-
to
-
Peer
You can share your new printer on the network using the
Drivers and Utilities
CD that shipped with your printer, or using Microsoft
®
point and print or peer-to-
peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft methods, you will not have all the features, such as the status monitor and other printer utilities, that
are installed with the
Drivers and Utilities
CD.
To share a locally-attached printer on the network, you need to share the printer, and then install the shared printer on network clients:
For Windows
®
XP, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows Server
®
2003, and Windows 2000:
1.
Click
Start
®
Settings
®
Printers and Faxes (Printers for Windows 2000)
.
2.
Right-click this printer icon and select
Properties
.
3.
From the
Sharing
tab, check the
Share this printer (Share as for Windows 2000)
check box, and then type a name in the
Share name (Share as for
Windows 2000)
text box.
4.
Click
Additional Drivers
and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer.
5.
Click
OK
.
If you are missing files, you will be prompted to insert the server operating system CD.
For Windows Vista
®
:
1.
Click
Start
®
Control Panel
.
2.
Select
Printer
.
3.
Right-click this printer icon and select
Sharing
.
4.
Click
Change sharing options
button.
5.
The dialog box displaying "Windows needs your permission to continue" appears.
6.
Click
Continue
button.
7.
Check the
Share this printer
check box, and then type a name in the
Share name
text box.
8.
Click
Additional Drivers
and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer.
9.
Click
OK
.
For Windows Server
®
2008:
1.
Click
Start
®
Control Panel
®
Printers
.
2.
Right-click the printer icon and select
Sharing
.
3.
Check the
Share this printer
check box, and then type a name in the
Share name
text box.
4.
Click
Additional Drivers
and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer.
5.
Click
OK
.
To check that the printer is successfully shared:
l
Ensure that the printer object in the
Printers and Faxes (Printers for Windows
2000)
folder is shared. For example, in Windows 2000, a hand is
shown underneath the printer icon.
l
Browse
My Network Places
. Find the host name of the server and look for the shared name you assigned to the printer.
Now that the printer is shared, you can install the printer on network clients using the point and print method or the peer-to-peer method.
Point and Print