How to share a printer in windows 7 and 10

If you want to share your  printer just follow the steps below



  1. Click on start button
  2. Go to Control panel
  3. Choose hardware and sound
  4. Click Device and Printers
  5. Select the printer you want to share
  6. Right Click on printer
  7. Select Printer Properties
  8. Go to Sharing tab
  9. Check the box share this printer
  10. Press Ok and apply
Now to make sure that others can connect to your shared printer just modify some settings in network and sharing to do this just follow this steps
  1. Click start Button 
  2. Go to Control Panel
  3. Click network and Internet
  4. Network and sharing Center
  5. Go to left tab choose Change Advanced Sharing settings
  6. Turn on network discovery
  7. Turn on file and printer sharing
  8. Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the PUblic folders
  9. Use 128 -bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections
  10. Turn off password protected sharing
  11. And hit save changes

Now if you want to test if other user can now print on your shared Printer follow this steps

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