Sharing A Usb Printer - AVM FRITZ!Box 3270 Installation, Configuration And Operation

Sharing a USB Printer

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12.5 Sharing a USB Printer
You can connect a USB printer to the USB port of the
FRITZ!Box to make it available to all participants in your home
network. You can either release the printer for sharing as a
network printer or use the FRITZ!Box USB remote connection
software to connect it with a computer. Which option is pref-
erable depends on how you intend to use the printer.
Using a USB Printer as a Network Printer
Configure the USB printer as a network printer on the
FRITZ!Box if
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For information about how to configure a USB printer as a net-
work printer, see the section
Network Printer on page
For access to media data like music, images and videos
available on the memory or on storage media of the
FRITZ!Box you can enable the FRITZ!Box media server.
Suitable playback devices like TV sets, web radios,
smartphones and the Windows Media Player can then
call up the data for streaming from the media server.
Playback devices to be used in connection with the me-
dia server must support the UPnP AV standard.
Enable the "media server" function in the FRITZ!Box user
interface under "Home Network / Storage (NAS) / Op-
tions Enabled".
the participants in the home network are to be able to
use the printer jointly and simultaneously.
the printer is to be used by computers that use an oper-
ating system other than Windows (e.g. Mac OS X or
Linux).
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Setting Up a USB Printer as a
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