Gateway dx4300 用户指南

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Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet 

connection, drives, and printers.

Sharing drives and printers

With a network, you can 

share

 printers among 

the computers connected to the network.

After the printers on each network computer 

are shared, you can access them as though they 

were attached directly to your computer. Then 

you can print documents on network printers

Sharing printers

To share printers:

 

1 Click Start, then click Control Panel. The 

Control 

Panel

 window opens.

2 Under Hardware and Sound, click Printer The 

Printers

 window opens.

3 Right-click the name and icon of the printer you 

want to share, then click Sharing on the menu.

4 On  the  Sharing tab, click Share this printer, then 

click OK.

Using the network

After the printers on each network computer 

are shared, you can print documents on 

network printers.

Important

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.