Testing Your Network; Adding A Printer To Your Network; Sharing Resources - eMachines EL1360 User Manual

Testing your network

Now that your home network is set up, log onto one of
your computers and access a favorite Internet Web site.

Adding a printer to your network

Instead of plugging a printer into each of your computers,
you can add a printer to your network. To add a printer
to the network, do one of the following:
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Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet connection,
drives, and printers.
Sharing drives and printers
With a network, you can
drives and DVD drives) and printers among the computers
connected to the network.
After the drives and printers on each network computer
are shared, you can access them as though they were
attached directly to your computer. Then you can:
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Connect your printer to your networked computer,
then share the printer. For information about
sharing printers, see
page 18.
Connect your printer to your router or access point
if the router or access point includes a USB or parallel
port. For more information, see the instructions that
came with your router or access point.
Use a printer that has built-in networking.
Use a print server.
Important
To share a printer among the network computers, each
computer must have the shared printer's drivers installed. Follow the
instructions included with your printer to install the printer drivers
on each computer.
View a network drive
Open and copy files stored on other network
computers
Print documents on network printers
"Sharing drives and printers" on
share
drives (for example hard