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Exercise 8.8: Sharing a Printer on the Network with Windows 95
1.Right-click on the Printer icon and choose Properties to display the Properties sheet.
2.Choose the Sharing tab to display the Sharing configuration settings.
3.Select Shared As and enter a share name and an optional descriptive comment for the printer. Windows 95 does not allow a share name to contain invalid characters, including spaces. In addition, the share name must not exceed 12 characters.  
4.You also must grant permissions to access this printer. If share-level permissions are used, you must assign a password to the printer. To access the print queue, users must supply the correct password. If user-level permissions are used, you must add the users who will be granted access to this print queue. For example, to enable everyone to print to the print queue, you would add the Everyone group and grant it the print access right. If you can, assign these permissions from what you have learned. If you have problems, refer back to previous exercises for instructions on setting permissions. Remember that files and printers are shared through the same process with just a few twists.
  1. Choose OK to share the printer. The Printer icon now appears as a hand holding or sharing the printer with others. Remote users with the correct permissions now can access the print queue after setting up the correct printer driver on their computers.