Setting up for shared printingPoint and printPeer-to-peerYou can share your new printer on the network using the Drivers and Utilities CD that shipped with yourprinter, or using Microsoft's point and print or peer-to-peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoftmethods, you will not have all of the features, such as the status monitor and other printer utilities, that areinstalled 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 sharedprinter 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 thisprinter.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, ahand is shown underneath the printer icon.Browse Network Neighborhood. Find the host name of the server and look for the shared name youassigned to the printer.Now that the printer is shared, you can install the printer on network clients using the point and printmethod or the peer-to-peer method.Point and printThis method is usually the best use of system resources. The server handles driver modifications and printjob processing. This lets network clients return to their programs much faster.
