The Printer Sharing Won't Work

Fix your printer sharing issues.

You share a printer across a network, so other users can send print jobs to the device. Printer sharing is common on large and small networks. It is more beneficial to share a printer rather than have several printers for each user on the network. It saves home and office users money on printer costs. Before you can share a printer, you need to turn on printer sharing on the computer. Without it turned on, your printer is not shared even after configuring it for sharing on the network.

Instructions

1. Click the Windows "Start" button. Click "Control Panel" in the list of options. In the opened window, click "Network and Internet" and then click "Network and Sharing Center."

2. Select "Turn on network discovery" and "Turn on file sharing" from the list of options at the bottom of the configuration window. Select "Turn on printer sharing" from the options.

3. Click "Apply" to save your settings. Now that printer sharing is turned on, your printer sharing settings are seen by other users on the network.

References

• Microsoft: Enable file and printer sharing