7 Sharing a printer
Sharing a printer connected to an individual PC via a USB
cable, rather than working with a wireless or network printer, is a
very similar process to sharing files and folders. Open Settings
from the Start menu, click Devices and then go to ‘Printers &
scanners’. Click the name of your printer followed by the Manage
button, and then click the Printer Properties link.
8 Renaming your computers and network
Move to the Sharing tab and tick the box labelled ‘Share this
printer’. By default, the printer will be shared on the network with
the name it was assigned, but you can change this. To add and
access the printer on another computer, opt to add a network
printer and browse to the printer you have shared. It will only be
accessible when the computer it is connected to is switched on. Q5
Additional permission options
If you have shared a file and try to assign Read/Write access
to it, you will be warned that you’ll need to provide the same level
of access to the folder containing the file. If you’re happy to do
this, click Next when prompted and Windows will take care of
things for you. Otherwise, click Cancel, and copy the file to a
folder you are happy to share with this level of access.
3 Sharing folders
Folders are shared in exactly the same way as files – or
groups of files, for that matter. Just select the ‘Give access to’
option, then choose which users and computers you would like
to share with. You might find it useful to create a special folder
contain all of the files you want to share as you may find it is
easier to manage things from one location rather than several.
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Sharing links to shared items
Once you have configured the settings, files or folders you
have selected will be made available on the network for others to
access – they just need to navigate to your computer from the
Network section of File Explorer. To make things even easier, you
can share a link. On the final screen of the sharing process, click
‘Copy link’ and you can then paste it into an email or message.4 Configuring sharing permissions
By default, when you share a file the people you share it
with will only be able to open and read it. It may well be the case
that you would like other people to be able to edit files, and you
will need to change permission to make this possible. In the
Permission Level column, click the arrow next to Read and select
Read/Write before clicking the Share button.Explore
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