Unless your PC is in a corporate environment
and you need to use remote administration, you have nothing to
gain by leaving this backdoor open??”and everything to lose.
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Share a Printer
As soon as you share a printer, anyone on your local network can print to it.
Sharing a printer is, for the most part, just like sharing a folder. The difference
is that security and permissions aren??™t particularly important. What??™s
more, Windows Vista sometimes lets you connect to a remote printer even if
it isn??™t shared, and Vista even often connects shared printers automatically.
Here??™s how to do it by hand. In Control Panel, open the Printers folder.
Right-click the printer you want to share, and select Sharing. Turn on the
Share this printer option (see Figure 8-19) and click OK.
Before other PCs on your network can print, they must be set up. Again, Vista
sometimes does this automatically, but if not, here??™s how to do it by hand:
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the Network folder.
2. Double-click the PC to which the printer is physically connected. (If the
printer is a network printer and not connected to any PC, see ???Use a
Print Server Without Software,??? next.)
Figure 8-19. You can share a printer in much the same way as sharing a folder
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3. In the PC??™s Network folder, open the Printers folder.
4. Double-click the printer to install the driver on your PC.
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