Windows Server 2003 for Dummies

Bringing Printers and Clients Together

The final step in setting up networked printing involves setting up the print devices on the client side. Fortunately, not much is required in this process. Everything you need is on the Windows Server 2003, the print server, or in the user 's Printers and Faxes folder on his or her desktop, depending on which client operating system is used.

If the client operating system is a Windows XP, 2000, or NT system, you need to only add the print device in the Printers and Faxes folder (Add Printer) and choose Networked Print Device. The reason is that the print device is attached to another computer somewhere on the network; it's not local to this workstation. For the port, use the Browse option and find the share name of the print device to which you want to print. That's it!

If your clients have Windows 9 x and are printing to a Windows Server 2003 (and you've installed the various client operating system drivers at the server), you simply add the print device in the Printers and Faxes folder (Add Printer) and select it as a networked print device. When you select the port as the share name of the networked print device, Windows Server 2003 automatically downloads the drivers.