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82 Setting up for shared printing
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You can share your new printer on the network using the Drivers and Utilities CD that
shipped with your printer (see "Set up the queue on the server" on page 74), 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 Select your Dell Laser Printer S2500.
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.