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194 Part IV: Using a Wireless Network Remotely installing the printer on all network PCs You perform the third step at every other PC in the house. Basically, you install the printer on each of these computers, but in a logical way — logically as opposed to physically installing and connecting the printer to each computer. You install the printer just like any other printer except that you’re installing a network printer, and the printer installation wizard searches the network for the printers you want to install. The process you use will vary depending on the operating system you use and the type of printer you’re trying to install. In every case, read the printer documentation before you start because some printers require their software to be partially installed before you try to add the printer. We’ve seen this a lot with multifunction printers that support scanning, copying, and faxing. With Windows, the easiest way to start the installation of a printer is to look inside My Network Places, find the computer sharing the printer, and doubleclick the shared printer. This action starts the Add Printer Wizard, which takes you through the process of adding the printer. This wizard works like any good wizard — you make a few selections and click Next a lot. If you didn’t add the drivers to the shared printer already, you may be asked for the printer drivers. Just use the Browse button to direct the wizard to look in the shared folder or CD-ROM drive where you put the printer software on the computer that the printer is attached to. You have two options for installing a network printer: � From your Printers folder: Choose Start➪Settings➪Printers and Faxes (or simply Start➪Printers and Faxes, depending on how your Start menu is configured). � From My Network Places: Double-click the computer that has the printer attached. An icon appears, showing the shared printer. Right-click the icon and then choose Connect from the pop-up menu that appears. Either route leads you to the Add Printer Wizard, which guides you through the process of adding the network printer. Don’t start the Add Printer Wizard unless you have installed the proper drivers to the shared printer or you have the installation CDs for your printer handy. The Add Printer Wizard installs the printer drivers (software files that contain the info required for Windows to talk to your printers and exchange data for printing). The wizard gets these from the CD that comes with your printer. If you don’t have the CD, go to the Web site of your printer manufacturer and download the driver to your desktop and install from there. Don’t forget to delete the downloaded files from your desktop when you’ve finished installing them on the computer.
Chapter 10: Putting Your Wireless Home Network to Work Note also that the wizard allows you to browse your network to find the printer you want to install. Simply click the plus sign next to the computer that has the printer attached, and you should see the printer below the computer. (If not, recheck that printer sharing is enabled on that computer.) At the end of the wizard screens, you have the option to print a test page. We recommend that you do this. You don’t want to wait until your child has to have a color printout for her science experiment (naturally, she waits until 10 minutes before the bus arrives to tell you!) to find out that the printer doesn’t work. Accessing your shared printers After you have the printers installed, how do you access them? Whenever your Print window comes up (by pressing Ctrl+P in most applications), you see a field labeled Name for the name of the printer accompanied by a pulldown menu of printer options. Use your mouse to select any printer — local or networked — and the rest of the printing process remains the same as though you had a printer directly plugged into your PC. You can even make a networked printer the default printer by right-clicking the printer and then choosing Set As Default Printer from the pop-up menu that appears. Sharing other peripherals Sharing any other peripheral is similar to sharing printers. You need to make sure that you’re sharing the device on the computer it’s attached to. Then you need to install that device on another PC by using that device’s installation procedures. Obviously, we can’t be specific about such an installation because of the widely varying processes that companies use to install devices. Most of the time — like with a printer — you need to install the drivers for the device you’re sharing on your other computers. Note that some of the devices you attach to your network have integrated Web servers in them. This is getting more and more common. Danny’s AudioReQuest (www.request.com) music server, for example, is visible on his home network and is addressable by any of his PCs. Thus, he can download music to and from the AudioReQuest server and sync it to other devices he wants music on. Anyone else in the home can do the same — even remotely, over the Internet. We talk more about the AudioReQuest system in Chapter 12. Danny has also set up a virtual CD server in his home to manage all the CDs his kids have for their games. This server is shared on the home network. By using Virtual CD software from H+H Zentrum fuer Rechnerkommunikation 195
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