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Sharing printers

Sharing printers

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Sharing printers

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- So I've got this little inkjet that's connected directly to my system here via a USB connection. Now at this point in time, nobody else can use this printer. The printer is a local connection, and anything that's local to your computer, be it a printer or be it a folder, has to actually be shared. Now, we've discussed sharing folders in other episodes. This time, let's go ahead and share a printer. So to do that, let's head over to the control panel, and let's take a look at my devices and printers. Alright, so here's my happy little printer. It's works great on my own local system, but I want other people to enjoy it, so I'm going to go through the process of sharing this printer. So I go to Printer properties and we click on Sharing, and what I'm going to do is say, Share this printer, and I get this big long name. I could leave it like that if I wanted, but this is going to be showing up on the network, so I want to give it something short. In this case, I'm just going to use…

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