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Windows 8 In Depth
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Windows 8 In Depth

by Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
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Sharing Printers

You can share any of your “local” printers so that other people on the network can use them. A local printer is any printer that is directly cabled to your computer, or to which you connected via the network using LPR or other direct network protocols.

To be sure that printer sharing is enabled, do the following (you should only need to do this once):

1. Right-click the network icon in the taskbar and select Open Network and Sharing Center. Alternatively, open the Control Panel and select View Network Status and Tasks.

2. Look to see what type of network you’re attached to. If your network is labeled Public Network, and you really are connected to a public network (for example, in a cafe, hotel, or school), you should not enable ...

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