Chapter 6: Configuring Other Network Features
In This Chapter
Setting up network printers
Configuring your client computer’s Internet connections
Mapping network drives
After you have your network servers and clients up and running, you still have many details to attend to before you can pronounce your network “finished.” In this chapter, you discover a few more configuration chores that have to be done: configuring Internet access, setting up network printers, configuring e-mail, and configuring mapped network drives.
Configuring Network Printers
Before network users can print on the network, the network’s printers must be properly configured. For the most part, this task is a simple one. All you have to do is configure each client that needs access to the printer.
Before you configure a network printer to work with network clients, read the client configuration section of the manual that came with the printer. Many printers come with special software that provides more advanced printing and networking features than the standard features provided by Windows. If so, you may want ...
