INSTALLING AN LPR PORT

3. You have a small workgroup consisting of five computers running Windows XP

Professional at your house. You are giving your friend, who has never seen Win-

dows XP Professional, a tour around the operating system. You are demonstrating

how the Search Assistant works, but the Find Printers feature is missing. Why?

Lesson Summary

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Client computers running Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition,

Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 98, or Windows 95 can use

the Add Printer Wizard to connect to a printer. On client computers running Win-

dows NT 4.0, Windows 95, or Windows 98, the Add Printer Wizard only allows

you to enter a UNC name or to browse Network Neighborhood to locate the

printer. Users on client computers running early versions of Windows (such as

Windows 3.1, Windows 3.5, and Windows for Workgroups) use Print Manager to

connect to a printer.

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You can also install a printer by connecting to it with My Network Places (or Net-

work Neighborhood), the Run dialog box, or the command prompt.

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If you are using a client computer running Windows XP Professional, Windows XP

Home Edition, or Windows 2000, you can connect to a printer through your cor-

porate intranet by typing a URL in your Web browser.

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On client computers running Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edi-

tion, or Windows 2000 that are part of a Active Directory domain, you can connect

to a printer using Active Directory search capabilities.

Lesson 4: Configuring Network Printers

After you have set up and shared network printers, user and company printing needs

might require you to configure printer settings so that your printing resources better fit

these needs.

The five most common configuration changes you can make are as follows:

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You can share an existing nonshared printer if your printing load increases.

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You can download additional print drivers so that clients running other versions of

Windows can use the shared printer.

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You can stop sharing an existing shared printer.

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You can create a printer pool with multiple printers so that print jobs are automat-

ically distributed to the first available printer. In this way, users do not have to

search for an available printer.

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You can set priorities among printers so that critical documents always print

before noncritical documents.

After this lesson, you will be able to■

Share an existing printer.

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Install additional printer drivers.

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Stop sharing a printer.

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Create a printer pool.

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Set priorities among printers.

Estimated lesson time: 25 minutes

How to Share an Existing Printer

If the printing demands on your network increase, and if your network has a printer

that is already installed as a local printer but not yet shared, you can share the printer

with the network.

When you share a printer, you need to assign the printer a share name, which

appears in My Network Places. Use an intuitive name to help users when they are

browsing for a printer. You can also add printer drivers for all versions of Windows

XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows