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How do I share a printer?

Corpse Cruncher

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The boss brought a Dell (media) laptop. Yes he knew best despite others telling him it was crap and to get XP not media on it. We laughed as he said it had 8 hour of battery life, when it did not and again we laughed when he paid £300 more for it. The man does not listen.

He wants to use the printer that is attached (parellel port/USB) to my work computer. He doesn't want to be attached to it and as his laptop is wireless is convinced he can just beam a letter to it.

My printer is a C82 Epson of about 4-5 years old. My work comp (xp) has a wireless connection in built. The hub (2wire) we use for the Internet sends the internet wirelessly to the other lap tops.

The boss(idiot) says the guy(another idiot) in the ink shop said he could use my printer wirelessly. He had me yesterday, on my brief visit in, try and set it up. I could see nothing on the hubs control panel that would allow it. It recognises all things wireless but the printer is not wireless.

I did tell the boss (utter idiot) to buy a wifi printer and gave him one to go get. He is under the attack of meanness and believes he can just beam to my printer and it will work and therefore save money.

I presume it would work by some form of network link I turned on share printer, but that included sharing files and I don't want that. It did nothing but say something was switched off. Also my side of the computer is private, essential as the Boss (interfering wrecker who does not listen) screws things up. Believe me this man deleted all my correspondence files, purchase order and e-mails then ranted at me later when he could not find them. :rolleyes: Which is why I created his side with limited access and locked my side down.

I am clueless here. Personally I'd prefer a wifi printer to save hassle but as long as I can protect my side of the main computer I would make use of my old printer.

How is it done?
 
Even if you enable "File and Printer Sharing" only things that you specifically share will become available over the network. So if you're worried about sharing files, you don't have to share any. I think it's tolerably secure, as far as it goes; nobody can get access to your files unless they are either given it or very clever (which doesn't seem to apply in your boss' case).

So I'd go ahead and enable File & Printer sharing, then go to the "Printers and Faxes" section of Control Panel and share your printer. Good luck!
 
Even if you activated "share files and printer", how would he gain access to your harddrive unless you started to share folders with him, and even if you share a folder you can set access to read only so he cant change anything.
Edit: Doh!
 
There are also Admin shares like C$, Admin$, the $ makes them hidden so he won't be able to browse to them like he would your printer. You have to get to them by typing the UNC like \\corpse'spc\c$. He would have to have admin rights to your PC to actually access it though.
 
Ok what did I do wrong?

I enable sharing of the printer. It did something, it shows it is shared. When I went to the boss (twat) laptop and tried to add the printer it would not let me. I had both of the side by side typing in the shared name and - be damned would it work. The wizard would not complete.

:(
 
The two computers probably are not in the same workgroup on the network. So although they are physically on the same wire, they cannot "see" each other.

You need to find the System Properties*, and look on the Computer name tab. If they are not the same workgroup, you need to make them so.

* On each desktop, find the icon for My Computer. Right-click on it, select Properties.
 
You may need to share the printer specifically to his user account, which is under the Security Tab of the printer properties.
 
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