User's Manual
20 Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Adapter User’s Guide
The procedures for sharing a printer and installing drivers differ depending on
your version of Windows. For more detailed instructions, look up “sharing printers”
in Windows Help.
To access a shared printer from another computer on the network, use the
following procedure.
To print to a shared printer that is attached to another computer on the
network
1. Open the document that you want to print, such as a document in
Microsoft Word.
2. On the File menu, click Print.
3. In the Print dialog box, select the shared printer from the list of printers, and
then click OK.
Note The computer that is connected to the printer must be turned on for the other
computers on the network to use the printer.
Using Other Peripheral Devices over a Network
In addition to using most printers over a network, you can use other peripheral
devices—such as hard drives, CD drives, and Zip drives—over your network.
Some peripheral devices (such as some scanners) cannot be shared with other
computers on your network.
Before you can use a device that is attached to another computer on your
network, you will need to do the following:
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Make the device available to the network (this is also known as sharing the
device). This is congured from the computer to which the device is attached.
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Install any necessary drivers or utilities on each computer from which you want
to use the device. For more information, see the documentation that came with
the device.
About Reading E-Mail Messages on a Network
You can access your e-mail messages from each networked computer in the
same way that you would access e-mail messages without a local area network
(assuming that you have an Internet connection). Open your e-mail program, or, if
you have a Web-based e-mail account, sign in to your account through your Web
browser.
Keep in mind the following: If you download e-mail messages from your e-mail
account to your computer, those messages will not be accessible from the other
computers on your network. Similarly, if you share an account with another
person, and he or she downloads e-mail messages from the shared account to
one computer on the network, you will not see those messages when you access
the account from another computer.
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