How to find the network path of a shared printer

  

How to find the network path of a shared printer is a skill that every computer user must know, because it can help us solve many things, and users who don't know can come and find out.

To list shared printers in the Windows SBS Console, you need the following information (if applicable):

  • Printer IP address directly connected to the network
  • The name of the computer to which the shared printer is connected
  • The name of the printer to be listed

    Execute “list a shared printer in this console> Specify the network path in two ways:
    1. Type the network path to the printer in the text box.

    Use this method if you know the path to the printer. For example, \\\\clientcomputer\\printersharename or \\\\192.168.1.100\\printersharename.

    2. Browse to the printer.

    Use this method if you don't know the printer's network location. When you click "Browse", Windows SBS 2008 opens the browser view to the current user's "documents" folder. To find the shared folder, click “desktop", double-click "network", double-click the name of the computer to which the printer is connected, and then double-click the printer you want to list in the Windows SBS Console.

    Note

    If the server does not appear in the \\\\Desktop\\Network folder, type \\\\servername in the "Printer" text box (where \\\\servername is the name of the server) ).

    If you can't find a path to the printer you want to display in the list, do the following:

  • Make sure the printer is turned on and the printer is connected to the network.
  • Make sure the printer is shared.

    The above is the specific method of how to find the network path of the shared printer for everyone, please take a look at the users who want to learn more, please continue to pay attention to this!

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