Thursday, 10 September 2009

What is the correct path to your network printer in Windows?

If your network printer attached to a computer on your network

  1. you need to type \\

  2. then the Computer Name (the one that has the printer attached)

  3. then \

  4. then type the share name of the printer

  5. This is what it looks like .. \\server\hpprinter

If the computer name was mitz and the printer was bob I would type \\mitz\bob

Notes:

  • When enabling sharing for your printer, rename it something very easy.

  • Rename your computer name to something easy also. The default computer name is a mix of your name and numbers, which is very confusing to re-type when trying to network a printe

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