How to Share Printer in Windows XP

Follow this step-by-step instructions to share printer in Windows XP.

1) Go to Start and click Control Panel. Control Panel Window will appear, then double click Printers and faxes.

2) Printers and Faxes window will appear. Right click the printer you want to share, then click Sharing…

Note: Make sure you've enabled File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks on network card's properties.

3) Select Sharing tab and tick Share this printer to share the printer. You can type in a new name in the Share name text box to change your printer name on the network, however this will not change the printer name on your computer. Click Apply.

Note: If the other users using different version of Windows to access your printer, they will need to install printer driver themselves. You can help by installing additional printer drivers on your Windows XP, so that the printer driver will be installed when other users access the shared printer with different version of Windows. Click Additional Drivers, tick additional driver you would like to install. You will be prompted to install those additional drivers after clicking OK.

4) Once you have shared the printer, you will see there is a hand supporting your printer.

How to Share Printer in Windows vista

This is an easy article talking about Vista printer sharing through Network and Sharing Center. Sharing a printer is commonly done in small home network, so that can save cost and utilize the printer better. The printer sharing process is pretty easy, however you need to install the printer driver on the computer before sharing the printer.

Here is step-by-step instruction on showing you how to do it:

1) First you need to confirm that you have enabled file and printer sharing on network card. Go to the network card’s properties window, ensure that you already tick File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.

2) After that go to Network and Sharing Center window, check the network location type of your computer. I would advise you to use Private network since you are doing printer sharing in home network. If your network location type is Public, check here on how to change network location type.

Note: Also I would advise you to set the same Workgroup name for all computers in the same network. This is the short help on how to set computer name and workgroup in Windows Vista.

3) Ok! Scroll down to the Sharing and Discovery section, turn on printer sharing. Click Apply to make changes, finally click OK to close all windows.

4) Now it’s time to do actual printer sharing! Proceed to go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Printers window, right click the printer that you wish to share and click on Sharing…

5) The printer properties window will appear, go to Sharing tab and click on Change sharing options.

6) Tick on Share this printer to share the printer. You can also tick on Render print jobs on client computers if you like. Click Apply and OK at last.

Note: If this printer is shared with other users that use computer with Itanium or x64 processor, you can install additional drivers so that the driver can be downloaded and installed when it’s connected. How to do it? Click on Additional Drivers to complete this setup .

7) Ok! Finally you will see there are 2 people on the bottom of printer, it means Vista printer sharing is completed successfully!

Note: If you enable password protected file sharing, the user needs to do user authentication before accessing this shared printer.

Password Protected File Sharing in Windows Vista

In case you do not wish to let everybody to access shared folder, you need to implement password protected file sharing in Windows Vista, so that the user will be prompted to enter correct username and password before accessing those shared folder/file in home or wireless network. This is especially useful if you share some sensitive information.

This type of file sharing is easier to set up now as comparing to Windows XP. Check out following steps to implement password protected file sharing.

1) First you need to confirm that you have enabled file and printer sharing on network card.Go to Start and right click on Network and then click Properties.

2) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, then click Manage network connections on the left panel.

3) Network Connections window will appear. Here you can right click on the network card that you are using now and click Properties.

4) Your network connection card’s properties window will appear, then click File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks, finally click OK.

5) Now go back to Network and Sharing Center window, check the network location type of your computer. I would advise you to use Private network since you are using file sharing in home network. If your network location type is Public, check here on how to change network location type.

Note: Also I would advise you to set the same Workgroup name for all computers in the same network. This is the short help on how to set computer name and workgroup in Windows Vista.

6) After that scroll down to the Sharing and Discovery section, turn on file sharing and also turn on password protected sharing. Click Apply to make changes, finally click OK to close all windows.

Note: If you do not turn on password protected sharing, you only enable simple file sharing.

7) Password protected file sharing? Lets start to do it! Lets move to do folder/file sharing now. Go to the folder that contains the files you would like to share, right click that folder and click on Share…

Note: You can also do password protected file sharing if you right click the folder and click Properties. I will tell you more about this advanced file sharing later.

8) File Sharing window will appear. Since you have enabled password protected sharing, select the user that you wish to share folder/file with and click Add. In this case, I added user Nicola and then set the user permission. Finally click Share to do sharing.

Note: For setting file permissions, you can have these 3 selection, choose the one that you need:

Reader – Can only view or read files in the shared folder.

Contributor - Permit the person or group to view all files, add files, and change or delete the files that they add.

Co-owner - Permit the person or group to view, change, add, and delete files in the shared folder.

Note: Only enable file sharing with read, modify and write permission if you really need to. If not, Read only permission is enough.

9) The next window will tell you that your folder is shared, click Done to close the window. Password protected file sharing is done!

10) After that when you check on the shared folder, you will notice there are 2 people on the bottom of folder.

11) When you access this password protected shared folder from Vista, XP or other Windows OS, you will be prompted to key in username and password. Here I key in user Nicola and her password to access this folder from other XP computer.

Note: Not like password protected file sharing in XP, Nicola can now login other computers with other username and password (example with username nicola123 and password), then can access this shared folder with username nicola.

Note: Please right click that shared folder and click on Properties, then go to Sharing tab. Check the group or user names that are allowed to access this folder, and make sure the user/group that you allowed to access during sharing process is listed here as well (usually will be added automatically when you do folder sharing), if not click Edit to add those missing user/group. Please note Everyone will allow everybody to access this folder.

If the specific user/group you allowed during sharing process does not match the user/group listed here, the missing user might not be able to see that shared folder at all! Or the user will get prompt saying that you might not have permission to use this network resource when try to access this shared folder from other computer.

Try and test some different settings, then you will know which one will work. Have fun!

Install and Configure DHCP Server in Win server 2003 Step By Step Guide

Installing DHCP Server is very easy in win server 2003
First you need to go to Start–>All Programs–>Administrative Tools–>Manage Your Server


Here you need to select Add or remove a role.



Verify the following steps click on Next.



Select Server Role as DHCP Server option click on Next.



Summary selection click on Next.


Installing DHCP Server in progress

Now this will prompt new scope welcome scree click next.

A scope is a collection of IP addresses for computers on a subnet that use DHCP.enter the name and description of your scope click next.

Now you need to define the range of addresses that the scope will distribute across the network,the subnet mask for the IP address . Enter the appropriate details and click next.

Enter the IP address range that you want to exclude and click on next.

Select lease duration how long a client can use an IP address assigned to it from this scope. It is recommended to add longer leases for a fixed network (in the office for example) and shorter leases for remote connections or laptop computers and click next.

You are given a choice of whether or not you wish to configure the DHCP options for the scope now or later.You can select Yes,I want to… radion button and click next.

Enter the router, or gateway, IP address click next. The client computers will then know which router to use and click next

Enter the DNS and domain name settings can be entered. The DNS server IP address will be distributed by the DHCP server and given to the client click next

If you have WINS setup then here is where to enter the IP Address of the WINS server. You can just input the server name into the appropriate box and press Resolve” to allow it to find the IP address itself click next

Now you need to activate this scope now and click next

DHCP Server new scope installation was finished and click finish.

Now your server is now a DHCP server message and click finish.

Configuring DHCP
Now you need to go to Start—>Administrative Tools—>DHCP


Right Click on your server click on Authorize your DHCP Server

Authorization completed now your DHCP server is up and running

DHCP servers permit you to reserve an IP address for a client. This means that the specific network client will have the same IP for as long as you wanted it to. To do this you will have to know the physical address (MAC) of each network card. Enter the reservation name, desired IP address, MAC address and description – choose whether you want to support DHCP or BOOTP and press add. The new reservation will be added to the list.

That’s it it is very easy to configure DHCP server in win server 2003 now you can configure your windows client pc to check your dhcp server is working or not.

If you want to install and configure win server 2003 domain controller with DNS setup check here

Dial-Up Internet Setup For Linux KDE KPPP

Create a New Dial-Up Internet Connection using Linux KDE KPPP:

* A variety of dialers exist in Linux. This tutorial discusses how to create a dial-up Internet connection using the KPPP dialer.
* In the bottom, left-hand corner of the Desktop, click the KMenu, then select Internet, Controlling, and KPPP from the menus.

The KPPP window appears.

Login ID = enter your dial-up username. It follows this format: username@dialup4less.com. Password = enter your dial-up password. Important: passwords are case-sensitive. Ensure your Caps Lock is NOT enabled.
* Click the Setup button.

* The KPPP Configuration window appears.
* Select the Accounts tab and click New.

* The Create New Account window opens.
* Click Dialog Setup.

* The New Account window appears.
* Select the Dial tab.
* Connection name = name the connection anything you'd like.
* Phone number = Towards the right, click the Add button.

* Enter a phone number = this field is for the Internet access number provided by your ISP. It is NOT for your phone number.
* If you are at work or in a hotel then you may need to dial "9" to get an outside line. In that case, place a 9,, in front of the phone number. Be sure to put one or two commas after the 9 so that the modem will wait for the phone line transition before beginning to dial the number. You may also need a comma at the front of the number to force the modem to wait for a dial tone.
* If you have call waiting, you may want to enter "*70" to disable it while you're on the Internet. If you have Call Waiting, and you do not disable it, you will be disconnected from the Internet each time someone calls you.
* For 10-digit dialing, put the area code in the phone number box as well.

* Authentication = ensure that PAP/CHAP is selected.
* Check the box Store password.

* Select the IP tab.
* Ensure that Dynamic IP address is selected.

* Select the Gateway tab.
* Configuration:

Ensure that Default gateway is selected.

* Select the DNS tab.
* Select the "Automatic" tab.

* Skip the "Login Script" and select the Execute tab.
* If you'd like, you can enable KPPP to automatically open your browser (or any other program) upon connecting. For example, if you wanted Konqueror to open you would enter "kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing" in the Upon connect field. If you wanted to open Netscape or Galeon, you'd simply enter Netscape or Galeon.
* Click OK when finished.

* The new account has been created.
* Click OK to close the window.

The connection window returns.
Here you can click Connect to get on the Internet or Quit to close the screen.
Note: you can also configure additional Internet connections. If you travel, simply select which Internet connection you'd like to use from the drop-down menu and click the "Connect" button.