Gateway ml6228 Guía Del Usuario

www.gateway.com

53

Adding a printer to your network

Instead of plugging a printer into your computer, you can add a printer to your network. To add 
a printer to the network, do one of the following:

•

Connect your printer to your networked computer, then share the printer. For information 
about sharing printers, see 

.

•

Connect your printer to your router or access point if the router or access point includes 
a USB or parallel port. For more information, see the instructions that came with your router 
or access point.

•

Use a printer that has built-in networking.

•

Use a print server.

Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.

Sharing drives and printers

With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and DVD drives) and printers 
among the computers connected to the network.

After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can access them as 
though they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can:

•

View a network drive

•

Open and copy files stored on other network computers

•

Print documents on network printers

Sharing drives or folders

To share drives or folders:

 

1

Click  

(Start), then click Computer.

2

Right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Share. The Properties 
dialog box opens.

If you share a drive, the entire contents of that drive will be available to everyone on your 
network. If you share a folder, only the contents of that folder will be available to everyone 
on the network.

To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must 

have the shared printer’s drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with 
your printer to install the printer drivers on each computer.