Windows 8 In Depth

Setting Printer Permissions

If you have a workgroup network and have disabled Password Protected Sharing, or if you have set up a homegroup, you don’t need to worry about setting permissions for printers: anyone can use your shared printer. If you’re on a domain network or have chosen to use detailed user-level permissions on your workgroup network, you can control access to your shared printers with security attributes that can be assigned to users or groups, as shown in Figure 21.9 and described next:

Figure 21.9. The Security tab lets you ...