How to connect WinXP different network segments to share printers?

The printer is also a member of our office, we use it every day, use it to print files and more. It is very convenient to connect the printer in the same network segment. Just find the other computer directly in the network neighborhood and double-click the printer shared by the other party. How to connect printer sharing on different network segments? Is this also a problem? Then follow the small series to solve this problem!

The specific steps are as follows:

1. We first set up the computer sharing the printer, right click on the desktop network neighbor to select properties.

2. Right click on your current web link and select Properties.

3. In the pop-up "Wireless Network Connection Properties", select the Advanced Bar, then click the "Settings" button.

4. In the "WINDOWS Firewall", select the "Exceptions" column.

5, find “ file and printer sharing & rdquo;, in front of the tick, double-click to open.

6. Double-click to open “TCP139“, pop-up dialog box, select “Customize list“.

7, we fill in the address of the two network segments, fill in the following example, fill in the two network segment addresses.

192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0,192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Click OK to save.

8. Now let's set it up on the computer that needs to connect to the printer. We open the WINDOWS folder on the C drive system disk.

9, we continue to open the SYSTEM32 folder.

10. Continue to open the DRIVERS folder in this directory.

11. Open the ETC folder.

12, double-click to open the HOSTS file, pop-up dialog box open with Notepad.

13. After the file is opened, we enter the other line in the last line of the document and enter the IP address, space, and computer name of the shared printer computer.

192.168.10.22 ETC

Save.

14. After restarting the computer, we will open the start menu and click on the printer and fax.

15. Click on "Add Printer> Next.

16. Select “Network Printer”Next.

17, Do not point "Browse the printer" is too slow, directly enter \\\\ the other computer name \\ shared printer name, as shown. Just install the driver automatically. If there is no driver, download it. But generally do not download.

The above is the whole content of WinXP connection printer sharing on different network segments; if you still don't know how to connect printer sharing on different network segments, please refer to the above method! Follow the steps to operate!