Lab Objective:
Learn how to share a printer over a network using printer sharing.
Lab Purpose:
You will enable printer sharing on a network if you want other devices on your LAN to print to a printer connected to a different machine.
Lab Tool:
Windows 10
Lab Topology:
Use two machines either on your home network or on the same virtual network in VirtualBox.
Lab Walkthrough:
Task 1:
Ensure your PCs can ping each other and are in the same subnet. I have a NAT network in VirtualBox.
Task 2:
On one PC, download the printer device from PDF995. This allows you to print a document to PDF as if you are using an actual printer. You need two files.
http://www.pdf995.com/
You can install the printer in the same way you install any software program.
Task 3:
Open up your settings and go to Devices – Printers & scanners – PDF995 and click on the ‘Manage’ button.
Task 4:
Click on ‘Printer Properties’ then on the ‘Sharing’ tab. Tick ‘Share this printer’ and change the name to ‘HR_Printer’. Click ‘Apply’ and then ‘OK’.
Task 5:
On your other PC, create a Notepad file with any text.
Go to ‘File – Print’ and then click on ‘Find Printer’.
Click on the name of the machine with the PDF995 printer on (you may need to log in).
You should see the printer displayed.
You could print to this device if you wish and create a PDF.
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