User Manual

FOLDER AND PRINTER SHARING

Overview

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Printer sharing is especially useful if you have more users than printers,

or if you have different kinds of printers – for example, a laser printer

and a photo quality inkjet printer – and want users to be able to print to

both.

Tip: Before sharing a printer, consider connecting it directly to the

Smart Home Server and making it a network printer. This allows

all users to print to it at any time. See Chapter 8 for instructions.

WORKGROUPS

For folder and printer sharing to work properly, all the PCs and the

Smart Home Server must be in the same Windows workgroup.

The Smart Homer Server is initially assigned to the workgroup

“WORKGROUP.” This is the same workgroup that all PCs running

Windows XP Professional are initially assigned to. However, PCs

running Windows XP Home Edition are assigned to the MSHOME

workgroup.

If you attempt to set up folder or printer sharing, and your PC belongs to

a different workgroup than the Smart Home Server, you will see the

message shown below:

You need to change one of the workgroups.

Change the Smart Home Server workgroup To change the Smart

Home Server’s workgroup:

1 Click My Network and then click the Edit Smart Home Server

Settings icon. The Smart Home Server Settings page appears (see

Chapter 12,

FIGURE 12-3).

2 Type a new workgroup in the Windows Workgroup Name field.