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Printer Sharing with Windows 95
To use Windows 95 as a network print server, the printer must be attached to the Windows 95 machine locally and configured with the proper driver, just as it would be if it were serving only local users. The printer then must be shared to enable other users to access it. To share a printer in Windows 95, the network print server must run a 32-bit, protected-mode client, and a file and printer-sharing service must be enabled.

Exercise 8.8 demonstrates how to share a network printer from a Windows 95 machine. This exercise assumes that you already have installed and configured a printer.

When the printer has been configured and shared on the network print server, a Windows 95 client can be configured to connect to the print server and print to the printer over the network. This configuration can be established either manually with the Add Printer Wizard or by configuring the network printer for Point and Print setup.