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Setting up for shared printing, 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's point and print or peer-to-peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft methods, you will not have all of 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: 1. Click Start Settings Printers. 2. Right-click the Dell Laser Printer M5200 icon and select Properties. 3. Click File Sharing. 4. Check the Shared as check box, and then type a name in the Shared Name text box. 5. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 6. Click OK. If you are missing files, you are prompted to insert the server operating system CD. To check that the printer was successfully shared: Make sure the printer object in the Printers folder shows it is shared. For example, in Windows 2000, a hand is shown underneath the printer icon. Browse Network Neighborhood. 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 This method is usually the best use of system resources. The server handles driver modifications and print job processing. This lets network clients return to their programs much faster.

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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's point and print or peer-to-peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft
methods, you will not have all of 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:
Click
Start
Settings
Printers
.
1.
Right-click the
Dell Laser Printer M5200
icon and select
Properties
.
2.
Click
File
Sharing
.
3.
Check the
Shared as
check box, and then type a name in the Shared Name text box.
4.
Click
Additional
Drivers
and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this
printer.
5.
Click
OK
.
6.
If you are missing files, you are prompted to insert the server operating system CD.
To check that the printer was successfully shared:
Make sure the printer object in the Printers folder shows it is shared. For example, in Windows 2000, a
hand is shown underneath the printer icon.
Browse Network Neighborhood. 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
This method is usually the best use of system resources. The server handles driver modifications and print
job processing. This lets network clients return to their programs much faster.