Create rules to the firewall and network printing

Printers are a world inside the computer. Today we find various types of printers such as dot matrix printers, the inkjet, the laser ...

And each has its own problems (and many problems are shared with all others) conocidos.Hoy we bring this new article from The Bit Workshop; What we will do to successfully install the printer share, create reglaspara the firewall, and finally print from another computer.

This small guide will be useful when you want to print from a computer on the subnet that does not have the printer connected (in this case it is Windows 7), and have the printer connected to another computer on the network. Of course we have to have it shared from the host PC (the PC that has the printer installed and shared, in this case it is an XP).

INSTALL IMPRESORAPrimero have to add / install the remote printer on the client computer (the computer to print on the printer connected to another computer on the network):

When we selected instalarla.Simplemente we have to follow the installation menu.

After installation, we have to go to the printer and set its properties. (At this point we must have the cd dedrivers by hand, or look at the manufacturer's website.)

The most important thing we do now is to introduce Windows 7 driver for x64 impresora.Marcamos (assuming you have Windows 7 64 bit on this machine to print remotely), and if you ask for the disk, we introduce, or tell him where we have saved (obviously we download as we have said previously):



On the computer hosting the printer (the pc that has the printer connected directly via USB) have to share, so let's Printers and Faxes, select the printer you want to share and: right click / properties.

SERVICIOSAhora on the client computer to send files to the printer have to do the following: Let's Start / Run: services.msc You type screen will appear the windows service configuration.

We look for the appropriate service in this case, which is the print spooler (spoolsv.exe process) and activate it. We leave it to Automatic if we need it permanently. In this way we will not have to re-configure, but the process is always active, listening, even when we are not printing any documents.



FIREWALL SET FOR IMPRESORASAhora go to Start / Printers and Faxes (this option also can be found in Control Panel)

Next we configure our firewall correctly to share files and printers. We can do it from Control Panel / Firewall (XP). We recall that we are setting the firewall on the computer connected to the printer, the computer must allow incoming connections to print.

Sharing files and printers mark entered to configure the firewall rules. We must allow the passage to the pc's in our subnet (if these pc's are those who want to print, if the pc's are on another subnet, we must introduce their ip'sy their network masks the firewall to pass them to your printer).

DRIVERS ADICIONALESPor other hand, there is the issue of printer drivers for the operating system we have. To minimize errors introduced additional drivers. We have to make XP (in this case): So you can print. Open a document and print it, selecting the printer you want to use. Visit The Workshop Bit. Systems, Databases and Networks (tests, manuals and more).