Using your printer

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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 the printer.

Now, follow these instructions while you are at the other person’s computer:

1

Click 

Start

→

Settings

→

Printers

.

2

Click 

Add Printer

 to launch the Add Printer wizard.

3

Click 

Network Print Server

.

4

Select the network printer from the Shared printers list. If the printer is not 

listed, type in the path of the printer in the text box.
For example:

\\<server host name>\<shared printer name>

The server host name is the name of the server computer that identifies it 

to the network. The shared printer name is the name assigned during the 

server installation process.

5

Click 

OK

.

If this is a new printer, you may be prompted to install a printer driver. If no 

system driver is available, then you will need to provide a path to available 

drivers.

6

Select whether you want this printer as the default printer for this client, 

and then click 

Finish

.

Print a test page to verify printer installation.

1

Click 

Start

→

Settings

→

Printer

.

2

Select the printer you just created.

3

Click 

File

→

Properties

.

4

From the General tab, click 

Print Test Page

.

When a test page prints successfully, printer installation is complete.