Chapter 29: Sharing Drives and Printers on a LAN
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Enabling Hardware Sharing To share your hardware--disk drives and printers--with others on the LAN, you need to make sure that sharing is enabled. For a workgroup-based, peer-to-peer network, see "Installing the Service" in Chapter 28 to install File And Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks. For a domain-based network, ask your LAN administrator what you need to do.
Installing file and printer sharing does not automatically share your printer and disk drives--that could compromise security. Instead, you choose exactly which resources to share on your computer by using the commands covered in this chapter.